Nokia Ventures with the New Nokia 8: Specifications and Features Offered

Nokia is back with a bang with its new arrival in the smartphone market. It is known to everyone that Nokia was one of the leading smartphones but gradually experienced a downfall against iPhone and Android. But as rightly said ‘The more you tumble, the more you learn’. Nokia has made it's with a comeback with Nokia 8 and is planning to come up with new smartphones. 

Nokia is now an HMD Global’s flagship smartphone and has returned back to many new extraordinary features and looks. This article comprises of the specifications offered by Nokia phones and the give you enough reasons to change your Android or iOS devices.

Nokia: Will it be able to sustain?

Nokia has a huge fan following as it used to be the largest and best-selling smartphone in the world. Thus, Nokia still has a good market as a huge population is still addictive with its older versions. It is equipped with a comfortable design that is better than the Android, Galaxy.  The compact smartphone is built well with HMD’s design that can be questionable as it may lack the feel and design that Nokia was known for the last several decades. 

Is Nokia 8 fast?

It is smoother and snappier as compared to the Nokia 3,5 and 6. Nokia spends more of its time and efforts to fit the Qualcomm ‘s flagship class chipset. It also has a speedy chipset and provides extra battery life, extra performance leaving the same feeling you have forgotten for past 3 years.

Experience the feeling like a flagship! Nokia is just like a mid-ranged flagship. The smartphone keeps its pace with other flagships due to display, that features a Quad HD (2560 x 1440) resolution.

Salient Features of the Nokia 8

Nokia 8 highlights several features like Snapdragon 835 SoC, amazing dual rear camera setup, ‘bothies’ camera, dual sight mode, super slim cameras with Zeiss optics, 4K video with  OZO spatial 360 degrees audio, everything prepared with an ultimate craftsmanship. If you are an avid clicker, then try out Nomao Camera App that gives a clear photoshop picture.You can also use this app in your Nokia 8 Phone. Understanding it in much details, the features offered by iPhone.    

Nokia 8 Specifications: What makes it stand out from the others?

Bothie: this software feature within the camera app which on both the front and rear camera. Yes! You heard it right and Nokia truly is coming up with great ideas. This is one of the features that make Nokia 8 a winner as compared to other Android and iOS devices. This feature might be useful for YouTube uploaders.

That being said, Nokia lacks a wide-angle camera at the front or back. If you try doing it then chances are that you might get stuck with narrow frames. Splitting the viewfinder is quite complicated if you try to concentrate on the shot. This might work for a video blog but won't be a good experience for the professionals.

Experimenting with Nokia cameras

Nokia 8 cameras are speedy with no processing lag. The detailing are not so good as compared to other Android and iOS devices, the flagship-class camera is not so satisfactory. The monochrome and RGB combination doesn’t produce good colors in comparison to today’s generation cameras.

Ozo Audio Recording

Nokia 8 comprises of an Ozo audio recording which is the spatial recording technology in Nokia’s Ozo VR camera. The devices provide the handset which is capable of identifying the origin of the sounds and replicates it while watching the recorded video for a realistic experience.

After testing, there results in the claim that the audio was more real than in videos recording by smartphones. Also, the impact of Ozo recording is less credible with the quality of the headphones.

Which one is better Nokia 8 or OnePlus 5?

Nokia 8 and the OnePlus 5 that comes to an 8GB RAM while Nokia 8 settles for 4GB. More or less, both have similar features but the Nokia 8 lacks in one way, OnePlus 5 comprises of a ‘live bokeh’ mode that makes it a bit more preferable for professional photographers.  

Conclusion

Nokia 8 provides several wow features like the dual sensor camera, powerful chipset, QHD display and more but fails to offer something unique with the many competitive smartphones that have already made a mark in people’s mind. The high price might not be a good idea with minimal and ordinary features offered when there are so many phones offering much better features at reasonably affordable prices.  

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Quick Reply from the notification

WhatsApp's notification has been receiving a few tiny changes in the last updates, but none as important as this ability to quickly reply to a message without opening up the app and the entire conversation. The expanded notification now shows a Reply button that opens up WhatsApp's own overlay. To be clear, this has nothing to do with Android N's Quick Reply functionality — I don't have an N device with WhatsApp installed, so I can't test this claim but I'm pretty sure that the app already supports N's native Quick Reply feature because it has implemented the API for Android Wear. Maybe, and this is just conjecture on my part, this new Reply button is meant to be specific to pre-N devices so that they can have feature parity with devices on N later on.

Expanded notification on previous versions (left) and now on 2.12.560 (right)

The window that pops up shows the message's sender, text, and includes a couple of options to answer. There's a text box, a weird vertically aligned emoji panel, a voice message option, and buttons to close it (which dismisses the notification without sending an answer) and view it (which opens the full conversation in WhatsApp).

Quick reply window and higher aligned emoji panel

Multiple selection, Quick contact and group actions

Previously, when you tapped the profile or group image of any conversation (single contact or group), you got an overlay window with an expanded image and options to view info or open the chat. In order to perform actions on a contact or group chat, you had to long-tap on the name/last message part of the screen to get a list of actions.

Before: overlay window when tapping on the image + options when long-tapping on the chat

Now, the large image overlay is gone and instead you'll see a faster way to perform the actions of the long-tap menu in the app's title bar. You only have to tap a profile/group image to trigger this and the provided actions are contextual and smart enough to adapt to each scenario.

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For a single group, you get: Archive, Leave group, Mute/unmute, Add chat shortcut, Group info, and Mark as read/unread.

The best part though is that you can multiple select chats, regardless of their muted, read, or contact/group state. The feature is so well implemented that it'll adapt and only show the common denominator actions between all possible ones on the different conversations selected.

So say you select a contact and a group chat, you won't see the option to leave the group or to delete the chat, because they're not common actions. If you select a muted and an unmuted chat, you won't see the mute button. Conversely, if you select an unread group and an unread single contact conversation, you'll still see the option to mark them both as read. Check the example below where I selected a read but muted single contact + unread unmuted single contact + group: the only option left is to archive them all.

Multiple selection works in both the Chats and Contacts tabs, but not the Calls one. In Contacts, you get the option to start a new group or a broadcast when selecting several new persons.

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Wallpaper selector before with that ugly Gingerbread default icon (left), and after (right)

A fifth option has also been added: solid color. This opens up a list of different solid colors that you can preview and apply for a bit of an added personal touch to your conversations.

Solid color wallpaper options (left) and preview (right)

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