You thought you’ve seen and heard of it all? From a number of phones with three rear cameras, a 48-megapixel camera on the Redmi Note 7 and the Nova 4, even the sight of 5 cameras (3 at the back and 2 in the front)?
Yes, you could have, but we were yet to see 5 rear cameras on a single phone. HMD Global, at a press event on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress 2019, introduced the Nokia 9 PureView to realize this.
6 cameras (5 at the back and 1 in the front)
The Nokia 9 PureView has a total of six cameras, a front facing 20 MP sensor for selfies alongside five 12 MP f/1.8 cameras on the rear. It is noted that two of the five rear cameras shoot images in full colour while the rest capture images in monochrome.
HMD Global asserts that with the penta cameras, one is able to capture 1,200 different layers in a single image – thus the name PureView. This gives you room to fine tune an image to perfection thanks to the camera’s ability to shoot in raw Digital Negative.
Build
The Nokia 9 sports a 6-inch OLED QHD+ display with an in-display fingerprint scanner. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 845, running on 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage (that happens to be non-expandable).
The 9 PureView will run on Android One, the firmware that offers the purest Android experience free from any bloatware. At least a user can be sure of free and unlimited image storage via Google Photos and guaranteed two-years of software updates along with monthly security updates for the next three years.
Nokia 9 PureView Specifications
- 5.99-inch 2K pOLED HDR10 PureDisplay
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC
- Primary penta 12-megapixel cameras (2 RGB, 3 B+W)
- 20-megapixel front-facing camera
- 128GB storage w/ microSD expandability
- Qi/PMA wireless charging
- 6GB RAM
- 3320mAh battery
- Android 9.0 Pie
Availability
The Nokia 9 PureView will retail for US$699 when it goes on sale in March.
