Nokia 7.1

This phone is wonderful. I had not upgraded my phone in over 4 years. I was tired of being tied down by carrier phones that I had to pay off over 2-3 years just to get a decent phone that would work in the US. There are many phones from overseas that are offering so much, except that usually they dont have the correct bands to get LTE speeds in the US. I did a ton of research and decided to go with this phone and I am so happy I did. The biggest complaint I have seen about this phone is that it crashes or that the experience isn't smooth. I have not seen any of this. Granted the processor inside is not the latest and or greatest, but I have had 15-20 plus apps running at once and have seen no signs of slowdown or stutter. I may not use that most resource intensive apps but my old phone couldn't handle even 5-6 apps running so I feel like this is a win. Also if you have never used an Android One phone, it is very bare bones which I love. There were only 23 apps installed when I turned it on for the first time. My old LG phone had around 80+ when it was brand new. You know how many of those apps I used? Only the google default ones like apps and photos, so maybe 10-15. This is a huge win, and really allows android to run much faster. Also there is no manufacturer UI skin over the top. This usually slows phones down as well. The screen is really nice, the colors pop and the screen brightness is great as well. The camera does a nice enough job for me, even my friends with higher end IPhones and Samsung phones cant believe that I am getting photos like this out of a $350 phone. The build quality is beautiful, now I use a case ALL of the time for any phone I am using so you dont see it much but when I do take it out of the case it looks really nice, and much more expensive than what you are paying for. Overall, if you are like me and looking for a nice phone for not a lot of money, and you are not doing any high end mobile gaming I would highly recommend this phone. I am most likely going to buy another for my girlfriend if that says anything!

To preface this, the Nokia 7.1 is a solid mid range handset that I used to be able to recommend to almost anyone. I say used to because I recently had to deal with their support and boy is it .... something. My phone too experienced the issue where the USB C port was loose and stopped charging the device except at odd angles. I had only had the phone for just over 3 months. You can find many reviews here that mention this issue. Nokia support took the time to attempt to blame me for their well documented manufacturing defect and after some convincing said they would send over the warranty claim to e-mail. Nothing Was ever sent. Call #2: Call back and explain the situation and am told that I will need to send the phone in for repairs and that I would be without a phone for 7-10 business days. What was I to do without a phone for those 7-10 business days? Not Nokia's problem. Contact the retailer you bought it from. I had to explain to the supervisor that In the United States it is generally the responsibility of the manufacturer to handle the warranty after the retailers return period (Usually around 30 days). Well that wasn't his problem, contact the retailer to see if they will help you. Said he would send documents to my e-mail address within 20 minutes. 1 Day later, no documents. It took the third call to finally get an agent to finally send over these mysterious "documents", though I will still be without a working phone for 7-10 business days. Thanks Nokia! Nokia apparently hasn't heard of customer service or even industry standards like advanced device replacement, where they place a hold on your credit card for the full cost of the device and send you a new device and ask you to return the old one and once you do release the hold. I had recommenced this device to quite a few people before i began experiencing issues. I can tell you that Never again will I recommend Nokia or purchase any of their products. This company has the same support aptitude as any number of generic Chinese no name companies.

I mean the headline as a compliment - Hyundai today makes slightly above average cars for a very good price! Just like how a car enthusiast would probably never consider a Hyundai, don't even look at this phone if you're a phone enthusiast. This Nokia is just like a Hyundai is in 2018 - it handles everything an average user might care to throw at it with ease, it comes with a brand name that most people aren't ashamed of, and it performs well enough in day-to-day use that you don't feel like you're using bargain basement junk at any point. The only feature of this phone that isn't like a Hyundai's is in the operating system. There, its more like a Mazda or BMW - The user experience offered by AndroidOne is top notch. I recently got the Android Pie update and it is slick, user-friendly, fast and the battery life is very good - 5 to 6 hours of screen-on time is what the battery monitor shows, and practically it means I get all day battery life very comfortably. The guaranteed security updates for 3 years, and OS updates for 2 years take the cake. Physical build-quality is good, but the lack of good cases is a big minus. The official Nokia case is decent. Dual-SIM capability was a must for me, and this is one of the handful of phones sold in the US which offers that. Keep in mind that you can't have 2 SIMs and an SD card at the same time. All in all, a very good product. They've actually made Nokia great again!

I've had this phone for about a week and a half now replacing my Moto G5 Plus because of a camera issue. I chose Nokia 7.1 because of my past experience with Nokia Build quality. Out of box it came with Android 7.1 , as soon as I powered up and set it up I had the Oreo upgrade. As promised by Android One and Nokia a week and a half later it upgraded to Android Pie. Happy about that because it took almost 2 years for a Moto upgrade. The phone has performed exceptionally. I use it all day on a charge and I'm a fairly heavy user as I use for work and work related applications. I wish it wasn't glass all over however I bought a case the same day for protection. I have had no hiccups , learning Oreo and pie took just a little bit of time. Camera takes really good photos for me as I have to use daily for work. Its value at 349.00 to me was a no brainier and the bare bones Android One is great. No carrier or manufacturer crap you don't need and can't delete. I highly recommend this phone. Performs as well as the over priced Apple and Samsung flagships at half the price or more and no carrier contracts. But it you love it. Excellent flagships build quality.

On the whole, Nokia has a decent phone here, spec-wise. The screen is fine, I didn't have any issues with slowness or reception, the fingerprint reader works well, the buttons are placed where I'd expect them, the price is reasonable, etc. But the specs don't mean much when the phone stops working. I had several issues with my unit. About 5 months after I got it, the phone stopped charging. I would plug it in, it would charge for a few moments, then stop. Then start again. Then stop again. etc. Since it was still under warranty I sent it in for repair, which worked - when I got the phone back it was charging again. But I was still without a phone for a week or two. Not a big deal - I just dusted off my old phone and used it - but still annoying. Shortly afterwards, though, I started having issues with the wifi. It would show connected but when I tried to browse the web nothing would load until I turned the wifi on and off again. Then it would work again for a few minutes before stopping again. However it was inconsistent, and didn't happen often enough to warrant sending it in for another fix. Often I would just leave the wifi off and use data, since that always worked. Where it really all went downhill was at about the 13 month mark, just after the warranty ended. I still had the wifi issue, but at that point three more issues started. First, the microphone began acting up. When I was in a call the person on the other end would tell me my voice was cutting in and out. The speaker would also intermittently be extremely high-pitched, as if the person on the other end had their voice sped up x10. And finally, the charging issue from before started up again. With the phone having trouble charging, the wifi being flaky, and calls basically being unusable (right when I was in the middle of moving, when I was making a lot of calls), I had to ditch the phone. The only reason I give it three stars is that conceptually this is a good phone. I liked the features and specs, and while it was working I was very happy with it. If it had continued working I would have kept it until it became outdated or slow. But at least in my case the reliability and quality left a lot to be desired.

I was in the market for a new phone after approximately six years. After six years I was astounded over how much the cell phone market had changed. It seemed ridiculous to pay $800-$1000 for a device mostly used to play games while pooping, and it seemed like a horrible idea to finance a device that is for convenience and is not the necessity people claim the phones to be. It was decided that a loss in performance was preferable to being raked over the coals. After researching mid-market phones I decided on the Nokia 7.1. Upon receiving the phone I installed an AT&T SIM Card and updated the phone. Downloaded a few of apps and set it up to my liking. Then I began using it to see why it was ~$500 less than a Galaxy or iPhone. I haven't find the reason why yet. Instead I keep being pleasantly surprised by how fast it is and the neat new features it has. The plan was too buy me this Nokia and buy my wife a more "reputable" phone so we would have at least one good phone we could count on. Instead, we bought her this Nokia as well. So far, the only weaknesses I can see is that maybe the camera performance in low light conditions inside could be better. But the camera has a lot of settings, it could be user error. With the Pie update there is a Google Assistant search bar at the bottom of the screen you can't move or delete, and the battery percentage with the battery icon on the top of the screen is displayed in a way that makes it hard to read. Phone calls are clear enough and the speaker does the job. In my opinion, I honestly cannot see why anyone would need more capability in a phone than this can offer unless you are trying to do something crazy. If you are apprehensive to buy this phone because you think it won't measure up, there is no need to be. Maybe a $1000 phone would be better, but keeping $700 in my pocket and using this phone makes me feel like I got away with something.

UPDATE (Aug 28, 2020) I really liked this phone, however suddenly the screen turned off, tried to turn it on again, and it started to boot, but didn't make it. Tried doing the soft reset holding down the volume up + power key, but nothing. It doesn't charge, it doesn't boot, it's dead. Won't buy Nokia again, I'll go with Moto next time. UPDATE (Aug 04, 2020) After almost two years of using this phone, it's still rocking, it feels snappy, and I think it has to do with the good specs and the work and compromise of Nokia, it's running Android 10 now, and still getting the security updates, so it's been a smooth ride so far. UPDATE (Nov 28, 2018) ANDROID 9 PIE I just got the software update notice to Android 9 (Pie), so now I'm running the latest OS with latest security updates. The new OS, runs just as fast as Android 8. In the update process I had an issue, I had to contact Nokia costumer support to resolve it, here is the explanation and the solution if it helps: After getting the Android 9 update notice, the phone downloaded the new OS update (1305 MB size), after that I restarted the phone, that's when the display turned off and the phone wouldn't turn on again, I contacted Nokia customer support, and they told me to do a soft-reset, to do that, you have to press at the same time the power + volume up buttons for 10 seconds until the phone restarts, that did the trick, phone started as normal and finished the Android 9 updated. UPDATE (Nov 27, 2018) After using the phone for the last couple of weeks, I want to address some features about the display and camera that I didn't write about in my original review that I think are important: DISPLAY The quality of the display is outstanding, the HDR feature really makes the colors pop from the screen. Also the aspect ratio of 19:9 (1080x2280 pixels) is really useful in social apps like whatsapp and facebook, because it allows you to see a lot of content. CAMERA I like the detail of the photos, the setting "Auto HDR" is on by default and improves the contrast, you can get a little sharper images by turning off this feature, but I leave it on, as I like the overall image clarity. Portrait mode reveals some nice shots with bokeh effect. ORIGINAL REVIEW (Nov 19, 2018) I was looking to replace a 3 year old phone, I did my research and reduced my list to the following midrange phones: - Moto One - Moto G6 Plus - Sony Xperia XA2 - Samsung Galaxy A6 - Nokia 7.1 After comparing the specs and features of the phones in above list, I finally settled for the Nokia 7.1 for the following reasons: OUTSTANDING SPECS: Comes with the powerful Snapdragon 636, this is a recent mobile processor that offers great performance. It's snappy, loads apps fast, I haven't experienced any slow downs like other reviewers have said. It comes with 4GB of RAM, that's plenty enough for current and future apps. And finally 64GB of internal storage, that you can expand to 400GB with a micro SD, I have already bought a Samsung 64GB EVO micro SD card for $10, efectively expanding storage to 128GB. The battery has a capacity of 3060 mAh battery (like most phones these days), and comes with a large charger that enables Qualcomm's quick charging feature. SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE: This phone comes with Android One, meaning it is a pure Android OS, without the bloatware that other phones come plagued with from the factory. With Android One, you get security updates for the following two years. This phone comes loaded with Oreo 8.1.0. Android 9 (Pie) is in the works, Nokia is supposed to release it soon. BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: The phone feels really solid in your hand, and you can feel the quality, the edges of the phone resemble a high end phone. I really like the design. I got the blue color, but I think the gray color looks really good too. And I agree with every one in here, you should definitely get a rugged protective case, because the phone is really slippery, I guess this is the price you have to pay for getting all glass design. LTE NETWORK I did my research, you should check the bhphotovideo web site, for network compatibility in your country/operator, mine displays correctly LTE next to the network signal status, so for those that show 4G instead, I think it depends on your telecom operator, not the phone itself. That's all for now, I will try to update this review in a few weeks.

So far, not super happy with the Nokia 7.1. I bought it 2 weeks ago and I was sitting at the dining room table and turned my screen on and noticed a crack on the lower 1/2 of the screen (going from the right side about 1.5" from the bottom down to the middle of bottom). I had it in the official Nokia case the whole time and it had never been dropped or sat on. The only "stress" it could have had was being put in a phone mount, but that should not cause enough pressure to crack a screen. I have never cracked a screen with any phone I have had before this, so this was a huge letdown. My husband has the same phone but in a slightly thicker case so I am buying that case now. Thankfully, I was able to exchange it and we will see how the next one is and I will update my review. In terms of other aspects of the phone, I was only able to play around with it for a little bit. I do absolutely love the camera. It takes the best pictures out of any smartphone I have ever had. It has a bunch of modes for both photos and videos. My favorites are the depth photos and slow motion videos. I had the Microsoft launcher on it to be able to customize more to my liking in terms of icon size because the standard size icons look tiny on this screen. You can change icon size but not number per row in standard Android (at least as far as I know.) The phone is also just generally very pretty (minus the notch- but I "hid" it in settings.) However, there is no notification LED. Every smartphone I have had in the last 5+ years has had one and I didn't even think that I had to look to see if this one had one. It has been a bummer because I do not like ambient display mode as I always try to interact with the phone in that mode and you cannot without unlocking the phone. And I really like to have my phone ringtone on silent (with my message notification on low) and I rely on the notification light a lot. I also came from the Axon 7 and I was able to customize the levels for both the ringtone and notification tone loudness, so I was also disappointed that stock Android no longer lets you do that. There are hacks like having a silent ringtone or downloading an app, but that is just extra steps. All in all, for the price it is a pretty solid phone and certainly worth the $300 price tag, even with the specific issues I had, but I do think that the glass screen is just too fragile.