In 2016, HMD Global acquired the license to use the Nokia name for Nokia smartphones, claiming that many of its employees and managers previously worked at Nokia; For this reason, in 2019, when HMD introduced the Nokia 9 Pure View with five cameras, most of the audience expected this phone to be a spiritual successor to the wonderful and excellent products of the past era of their beloved brand.
Unfortunately, this phone was very disappointing at the time of launch. Its most important strength was the five-lens camera, which included three 12-megapixel monochrome cameras and two 12-megapixel color cameras.
This combination was supposed to provide photos with deeper and better quality effects (for example, for portrait mode) and better HDR; But various tests at the time indicated erratic image quality, slow camera app performance, and poor low-light images.
The weak images of the five cameras, the weak fingerprint scanner and the previous generation chip made the Nokia Pure View a product that had no defenses.
Also, the fingerprint scanner under the phone screen worked very poorly. Some reports even said that this scanner can be fooled with chewing gum! The phone also came with the previous year’s flagship chip, which in itself wasn’t a weird problem, but exacerbated the issues.
HMD’s attempt to deliver a different experience is commendable, but the end product was really disappointing. I would even say that HMD still can’t boast after this debacle as they haven’t launched a flagship phone in the last five years.
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