Nokia 6.1 Plus Review: The New Budget Phone to Buy?
HMD Global has launched the Nokia X6 for the global market and renamed it to the Nokia 6.1 Plus for reasons I believe are more than or less about the slightly larger 5.eight-inch brandish as compared to the Nokia six.i'southward 5.5-inch brandish. At its price point of Rs. 15,999 the telephone brings in specs that are similar to offerings from Xiaomi like the Redmi Annotation five Pro, and the Mi A2 (which, by the way, besides runs on Android One). And so, is the Nokia 6.1 Plus worthy of this cost, or is it still another budget smartphone that'll exist overshadowed by Xiaomi'southward offerings? Well, I've spent virtually a calendar week with the device every bit my daily driver merely to come to a determination about information technology'south viability as your new smartphone, and hither is my in-depth review of the Nokia 6.1 Plus.
Nokia 6.one Plus Specifications
First things first, allow's go the specs out of the fashion.
| Display | five.8-inch FullHD+ 2280x1080 pixels |
| Processor | Snapdragon 636 |
| GPU | Adreno 509 |
| RAM | 4GB |
| Storage | 64GB |
| Primary Camera | 16MP f/2.0 + 5MP f/two.4 |
| Secondary Camera | 16MP f/2.0 |
| Battery | iii,060 mAh |
| OS | Android 8.ane Oreo |
| Sensors | Ambient low-cal sensor, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer (G-sensor), East-compass, Gyroscope, Fingerprint Sensor (on the back) |
| Connectivity | WiFi 802.11 a/b/thousand/north/ac; Bluetooth 5.0; GPS/AGPS+GLONASS |
What's Inside the Box
The Nokia half-dozen.i Plus comes in the usual Nokia box. You know, slim and wide, and kind of prissy looking? Yeah, that ane. Anyway, inside the box you'll find a bunch of stuff:
- The Nokia 6.one Plus
- Fast charging adapter
- USB-A to USB-C cablevision (you know, for charging)
- Earphones
- SIM ejector tool
- a agglomeration of manuals (neatly tied together so you can throw them away easily)
So, one matter that I noticed is that HMD Global is probably the only major brand that bundles earphones with their budget smartphones. Xiaomi sure equally hell doesn't, and Samsung, well, I wouldn't recommend a Samsung budget phone anyway then information technology doesn't matter.
Pattern and Build
The Nokia vi.i Plus is not a ridiculously crawly looking device, or even i that's built like a tank (at least when information technology comes to the look and feel of it), but then again, 'crawly' is a subjective term, and personally I like the fact that Nokia didn't go full iPhone X when designing the half dozen.i Plus. There's a notch, sure, and that's definitely a tendency started by the iPhone X, but the rear of the Nokia half-dozen.one Plus is not similar to the iPhone X (or most other phones from other companies for that matter).
The dual-rear camera is vertical, but is in the center of the back-panel (very HMD like, if you recollect the Nokia vi.ane with its rear photographic camera in a similar arrangement even though it was a single unit). There's a slight camera bump hither, just it's very slightly bumped especially when compared to the Redmi Note five Pro, or the monstrosity that is the camera bump on the Mi A2 — that bump alone is enough to deter me from wanting to buy the Mi A2, but I digress.
The dual camera arrangement here means that the fingerprint scanner is at a location where I can't really use it every bit effectively every bit I would've had it been a few millimeters towards the summit. It's the same problem that the Nokia 6.1 had when I reviewed that device, simply this time around I can't blame HMD for the longer camera set-upwards because information technology'southward a dual photographic camera. To be honest, it's not like the fingerprint scanner will be a hindrance in using the phone, it's merely non placed too every bit it could've been. You lot remember the problem everyone had with the Milky way S8 and the Note 8 where the fingerprint scanners were and then far up that they were difficult to reach? This is the exact opposite of that. Also, the fingerprint scanner is boring, not extremely slow, but it'south non fast enough to exist satisfactory.
The back panel here has a sleeky end which definitely looks good. It's made of glass, which tin be considered both a good affair and a bad depending on where yous stand up on the consequence of 'how often do you driblet your phone?' However, the dorsum is still very much a fingerprint magnet. Possibly non every bit much as other glass-backed smartphones like, well, almost every other flagship out there, but it withal does become smudgy after a curt while of using it.
Coming dorsum to the front though, I can't really mistake HMD Global for going with a notch, since every i is doing information technology now and at-least Nokia's notch is smaller than a lot of notched phones out in that location. I practise, however, despise the ridiculous chin, and while I understand that the mentum isn't going anywhere until manufacturer's beginning angle their displays inwards (like the iPhone Ten), I can't help but hate it anyhow.
The Nokia 6.one Plus has all the regular buttons and ports. The power button is on the right, alongside the volume rockers; there'south a headphone jack on the top, and a speaker along with a USB-C port on the bottom. The USB-C port is a smashing improver here, seeing as the Redmi Annotation 5 Pro comes with a microUSB port (in 2018! What in the world?). One complaint I do have with the Nokia 6.i Plus is that the buttons are mushy and just, ugh, I hate them.
Oh by the way, the Nokia half dozen.1 Plus doesn't accept NFC support, if that'southward something that matters to you just then again most phones in this price range don't, and at that place's besides no wireless charging, which again is something you lot won't find in well-nigh phones in the price range.
Over all, I'thou pretty happy with the pattern and even though information technology does feel slightly less, for the want of a better phrase, Nokia-like to hold, it'south a meaty device that fits rather well in my hand (something I can't say for the Redmi Note 5 Pro, or the Mi A2 for that thing). Also, while the build quality doesn't experience like it'southward annihilation remarkable, is definitely better than what it feels like considering I accidentally dropped the phone straight downwards on concrete from around 4 feet and information technology didn't even get a tiny dent. From personal experience, I can tell y'all, the OnePlus 5 is nowhere about as practiced at avoiding dents and scrapes every bit this matter is and that's saying something considering the OnePlus five is more than twice its price, and congenital entirely from aluminium.
Display
The display here is a 5.eight-inch FullHD+ LCD panel and it comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for at least some semblance of protection from scratches. I'm not particularly fond of LCD displays, but the display on the Nokia 6.1 Plus is definitely one that I don't take whatsoever complaints with.
It gets decently bright and can get quite dim, it has decent viewing angles, and like about other budget Android smartphones I've used, it has a tendency to lean slightly towards libation tones, which is peculiarly noticeable when heading into the white-laden settings screen.
If y'all've never used a notched telephone before, it'll accept you some fourth dimension before the notch kind of melts away from your vision, only if yous detest information technology with a called-for passion, y'all can ever head over to the display settings and hide the notch, turning the top of the telephone into a giant forehead. I'd probably take done that in my usage of the phone, just doing this on an LCD display is honestly not a great idea. It'southward at that place, however, and I'one thousand glad it is, because not everyone would want to deal with a notch even if it was only for a few days before they got used to it.
Anyway, media consumption on the Nokia 6.1 Plus is definitely non a trouble with the notch. YouTube videos can be scaled upwards to fill the display, but they nevertheless go out the notch part out like you were using an eighteen:9 phone. Personally, I find this much better than having the notch eat out a portion of the video I'm trying to spotter like some sort of a misshapen Pac-Man.
Also, I've noticed that for an LCD console, the Nokia six.1 Plus' display does handle blacks pretty damn well. Unless you're using the telephone in absolute darkness, you'll probably not even notice the blacks being backlit and that's pretty damn awesome. I like information technology. However, ambient display isn't something that's meant to be used with LCD panels, and while the option is there, I establish myself disabling information technology after the starting time night of getting bellyaching by the entire phone lighting upwardly just to show me a damn notification.
All that said, I'd say the display on the Nokia half-dozen.1 Plus is definitely a pretty nice 1 to accept on a upkeep smartphone and the only complaint I have is that it leans to a slightly cooler tone than what I'm used to, and I couldn't find an selection to conform colors on the brandish. It'southward not a problem though, and for every 24-hour interval usage, the brandish is pretty good.
Camera
Well, this is a tough one. In our Nokia X6 first impressions, we mentioned that the cameras on the Nokia X6 were incomparably only decent plenty, and honestly terrible in depression-low-cal. They really were. However, I recollect the Nokia six.one Plus is performing a lilliputian meliorate. It may be because it's better optimized in the global ROM, or it may be something else (maybe Nokia'southward in-house camera app just sucks, I don't know), but whatever it is, the Nokia six.1 Plus definitely improves upon the X6 (though not past a lot). I took a agglomeration of pictures with the Nokia 6.i Plus and (on Rupesh's constant nagging and insistence) with the Redmi Note 5 Pro and the Mi A2 to get an idea of how things stand with the phones.
Daytime
In daytime shots, the phone fares decently skillful enough. Whether it's pictures of objects, or scenery, the phone definitely does meliorate than the Nokia X6. Notwithstanding, when compared to the Redmi Annotation 5 Pro, and the Mi A2, I experience like those phones perform an overall meliorate job of handling the colors and the exposure in images. In selfies however, I notice the Nokia half-dozen.1 Plus reproduces a more natural color tone even if the Note v Pro beats it in the amount of details it tin capture.
I took images in full car without adjusting whatsoever settings, and all the phones had HDR set to automobile, and one affair I noticed was that the Nokia 6.ane Plus definitely handles HDR better than the residual. Information technology could exist considering of the AI enhancements that HMD Global says it has fabricated to the photographic camera, but regardless of the reason, I'm pretty impressed with the fashion the Nokia vi.1 Plus handles HDR.
Low-light
In low-light, things tell a unlike story altogether. Almost budget smartphones aren't skillful at handling low-light situations, only the Nokia 6.1 Plus ends up usually being the worst at these conditions. While all three of the phones I tested for the photographic camera comparison ended up performing in a less than optimal mode, I couldn't help but discover that the Nokia 6.1 Plus ends upwards usually being the worse of the iii.
The phone starts messing upwardly focus in depression-lite, and introduces substantially higher noise than the other phones. Personally, the Mi A2 is my pick in low-light because it performs at-par with the Note v Pro, and sometimes fifty-fifty better.
Portraits
The Nokia 6.one Plus comes with portrait mode on both the rear (thanks to the dual camera) and the front (thanks to software). I took a couple of portrait selfies, and some portrait shots with the Nokia 6.1 Plus, the Mi A2, and the Redmi Note v Pro to see how they fare, and the overall verdict is basically that the Nokia 6.one Plus usually doesn't become details quite right in portrait shots whether they are selfies or portraits of objects. In low-low-cal especially you can see a lot of dissonance in photos from the Nokia 6.1 Plus. The Redmi Notation v Pro isn't much better, but the Mi A2 is definitely a lot better with portrait photos.
Videos
In terms of videos, the Nokia six.1 Plus comes with 4K support which the Redmi Note 5 Pro lacks, and it has EIS for stabilisation. I didn't do a very extensive video test of the Nokia 6.1 Plus partly considering it's been raining in Delhi quite a scrap and then I couldn't get out much, and partly because I couldn't be bothered to go off my lazy ass and really go shoot anything from the telephone. However, the short video I did have was decent enough, although it'due south pretty evident that the Nokia 6.1 Plus' EIS is pretty aggressive since the video ended upwardly getting weirdly shaky.
That was while I was getting downward the stairs though, and in normal walking situations the telephone can handle things pretty well. I was too pretty impressed with the exposure compensation on the Nokia 6.1 Plus.
Animoji? Nomoji?
The photographic camera app in the Nokia vi.1 Plus comes with stickers and stuff, and one single, lonely Animoji clone. Information technology's a dragon, and surprisingly it both looks and tracks better than Samsung'south AR Emojis. It's nowhere near the iPhone 10'south Animojis though, but it's funny that a Rs. 15,999 telephone has ameliorate animoji clones than Samsung's flagships.
Performance
The Nokia 6.ane Plus comes with a Snapdragon 636 and 4GB of RAM which means nosotros tin can wait operation that is at par with the likes of the Redmi Note v Pro which also comes with the Snapdragon 636 Mobile Platform, and that shows up on benchmarks where the Nokia vi.1 Plus scores remarkably similar scores equally the Redmi Note 5 Pro. Obviously it's not every bit powerful as the Honor Play (which comes with a Kirin 970 and at a higher price), and it'due south slightly less powerful than the Mi A2 also, which comes with a Snapdragon 660.
The Nokia 6.1 Plus performs actually well in bodily usage as well. I've not experienced any lags from the phone or frame drops in animations fifty-fifty with intensive usage. It'due south a pretty well rounded performer to be honest in day to day usage. I too tested the phone out with gaming though to get an idea of how it performs with heavy games like PUBG Mobile, and new games like Cobblestone 9.
PUBG Mobile on the Nokia half-dozen.ane Plus automatically goes to Low settings, which is honestly expected with a Snapdragon 636 and 4GB of RAM. Nevertheless, the gameplay is smoothen and I didn't meet any problems while playing the game and grabbing a Chicken Dinner. GameBench suggests a similar performance with the median FPS coming in at 26FPS which is pretty proficient for PUBG Mobile.
Asphalt 9 also runs smoothly on the Nokia 6.ane Plus and I didn't find the game lagging or stuttering anywhere. I raced through People'southward Square and Cairo in Asphalt 9 and everything looked great.
Marvel Future Fight is absolutely not a problem for the telephone. Fifty-fifty though the game itself has some choppy animations, the frame rate hovered effectually 55FPS all the time which is pretty damn skillful.
Basically, gaming on the Nokia vi.1 Plus shouldn't exist a problem. Obviously, you lot can't switch to higher graphics settings on PUBG Mobile unless you want admittedly crappy frame rates just that'southward pretty obvious, and over all the phone handles gaming really well. I did notice, withal, that the phone gets warm during gaming, especially in PUBG Mobile, but it's not too warm to go uncomfortable.
Other than that, the phone comes with 64GB of internal storage which should prove decent enough for nigh users, and if needed y'all tin expand it with a microSD card of upwardly to 400GB capacity — which is definitely more what people demand on a smartphone right now.
Software
In terms of software, HMD Global has loaded the Nokia 6.ane Plus with stock Android Oreo 8.1, and it's an Android One device which means you lot're guaranteed 2 years of Android updates, and iii years of monthly security updates which is great.
Since it is stock Android it doesn't come with any bloatware, other than the Nokia Back up app. It's also the make clean, standard Android UI yous'll detect on stock Android phones, and that'due south something I adopt. Obviously, you lot'll not get any additional features hither, so there's no Face Unlock on this (unless you count Android's Trusted Confront feature, and somehow, no one seems to count that, least of all me), at that place's also no feature for locking apps, or hiding apps, and if yous're used to features that MIUI brings, you lot'll probably find information technology feature-less.
All that said, I personally adopt stock Android on everything, and if you're in the aforementioned boat, the software experience here is splendid.
Battery
The Nokia six.1 Plus packs in a 3,060 mAh bombardment that comes with fast charging support; and yes, a 3,060 mAh bombardment in a phone with a 5.8-inch LCD display might audio like information technology's probably underpowered, I was surprised at the bombardment performance of the phone. In my normal usage of the phone which usually involves a game or 2 of PUBG Mobile, reading through Twitter, and browsing on Chrome forth with the usual Instagram, WhatsApp, and phone calls, the telephone consistently lasted me well over a day. With a screen on time of around 4 hours, I think the phone lasts decently long enough.
However, if you're a more than intensive user and you like playing games similar PUBG Mobile a lot of times in a day on your phone, you'll definitely need a charger along to go you through the day.
Fortunately though, the Nokia 6.1 Plus charges decently fast enough as well, taking around 1 hour xl minutes to get from ten% to 100%.
Near of the battery consumption I saw on the Nokia 6.1 Plus was from PUBG Mobile which tin can suck upwards quite a bit of battery in only a single total game. Asphalt ix burns through battery likewise, but it's considerably less of a battery drain than PUBG Mobile is.
Connectivity
In terms of connectivity, the Nokia 6.1 Plus comes with support for WiFi 802.11 b/thousand/n/ac and supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi networks. There'south also a hybrid SIM tray that can firm either two SIM cards, or a single SIM carte along with a microSD card should y'all need the additional storage. Calling with the Nokia 6.1 Plus is no problem at all, the vocalisation is crystal clear, and the earpiece can get loud enough to be easily audible even if there'south noise around yous. I did observe that WhatsApp calls sounded a little muted, but that's nigh likely due to cyberspace problems than anything related to the phone itself.
For connections with Bluetooth devices (and for file transfer if you still utilize Bluetooth for that) the Nokia vi.ane Plus comes with Bluetooth five.0 which is something I'one thousand really glad near since information technology'll ensure a stronger, more stable connexion over longer distances than previous Bluetooth versions.
Pros and Cons
The Nokia 6.one Plus is a pretty decent phone, and actually performs very well. Nevertheless, there are pros and cons to the smartphone.
Pros:
- Great display
- Compact design
- Performance won't let you lot down
- Guaranteed and timely software updates
- Bluetooth five.0
Cons:
- Beneath par camera operation
- Fingerprint scanner could have been better
- No face up unlock
Nokia 6.one Plus Review: Should You Buy It?
All that said, the Nokia six.ane Plus is one of those phones that put me in a difficult position. Recommending this phone outright is something I might have washed, but the lack of good cameras is a problem. I mean, the Redmi Note five Pro brings in better cameras, and a metal build forth with a bunch of configuration and colour options and a bigger four,000 mAh battery. However, the biggest reason I find information technology difficult to recommend the Nokia 6.1 Plus is because the Mi A2 beats it in well-nigh every single way. The Mi A2 comes with stock Android, Snapdragon 660 SoC, cameras that beat the Nokia 6.1 Plus in every scenario, and a pretty great metal build; all for a toll of Rs. 16,999 — just Rs. 1,000 college than the Nokia 6.1 Plus. Also, if you can increment your budget to Rs. 21,000, the newly launched Poco F1 (Rs. 20,999) is the phone I'd recommend for its incredible value for coin.
All of that is not to say that the Nokia 6.1 Plus is non worth your attention; the phone does have redeeming qualities in there — at that place's a build that'southward actually strong enough to handle drops, a design that won't bring the iPhone X to mind everytime yous look at it (other than the notch), stock Android, a headphone jack, and USB-C. All of those are pretty impressive things that put it at an advantage to the Redmi Annotation 5 Pro, even if non so much against the Mi A2. So, if y'all have a budget constraint that won't let you get to the Mi A2, and yous want stock Android on your phone, the Nokia 6.ane Plus is definitely a telephone you can go for.
Purchase the Nokia 6.1 Plus from Flipkart (Rs. fifteen,999)
| REVIEW OVERVIEW | |
| Pattern and Build Quality seven.5 | |
| Display 8 | |
| UI 9 | |
| Performance 8 | |
| Camera vi | |
| Connectivity ix | |
| Bombardment 8 | |
| Value for Money vii | |
| SUMMARY The Nokia 6.ane Plus is a smartphone that does a lot of things right. It brings stock Android, a headphone jack, a pretty decent display, and even has a decent battery life. I would've recommended this phone to anyone looking for something under Rs. xvi,000 simply the cameras on the Nokia 6.i Plus are disappointing and make this a telephone to await at, sure, but not 1 to be recommended off the top of one'due south head. | 7.8 OVERALL SCORE |
Source: https://beebom.com/nokia-6-1-plus-review-2/
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