The Nokia 7 Plus sits nicely below the Nokia 8 and just announced Nokia 8 Scirocco, offering a big 18:9 screen, premium design and affordable price tag.
Milled from a single block of aluminium, Nokia says each Nokia 7 Plus goes through a 6-layer paint process, giving it a seamless ceramic feel and look.
It does look good, at least from first impressions.
Hardware-wise, the Nokia 7 Plus isn’t shabby at all. It boasts an expansive 6-inch FullHD+ display (2160×1080), and also get a Snapdragon 660 chipset, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
It’s powered by a large 3,800mAh battery which fast charges up via USB Type-C and Nokia promises two days of battery life on a single charge.
You’ll get a dual-camera setup consisting of a 12MP f/1.75 main sensor + 13MP f/2.6 telephoto lens that supports Live Bokeh. Optics, by the way, are supplied by the renowned Carl Zeiss.
And here’s a piece of brilliant news: Nokia has brought back the Pro Camera for full manual controls. Yippie.
Also, Nokia debuts a new Imaging Suite with the new device. You can add AR effects to your images and videos.
On the front, it gets an equally impressive 16MP f/2.0 selfie snapper.
In tandem, these cameras can take “Bothies”—something made popular by the Nokia 8.
The great thing about the Nokia 7 Plus is that it runs Android One, meaning you get a full stock version of Android, as Google intended.
It is skin-free, bloat-wear free, and certainly lag-free. Android One guarantees a solid lifespan of updates as well—two major updates to be exact.
The Nokia 7 Plus will retail at EUR399/MYR1,922 and the device will go on sale in April 2018.
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