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The panel is the Nokia 7.1’s most important selling point over its rival, the Motorola Moto One. It’a a Full HD “plus” screen, proving to be much sharper than the Moto’s 720p-grade display. Sure enough, it’s one of the Nokia 7.1’s best features. Sharp, bright and with attractive iPhone XR-like lines – this is a good screen for the price. You get no control over the colour calibration, and tones are sensibly a little more vibrant than sRGB.
However, it does support HDR10, making it one of the cheapest HDR phones, alongside the Honor 10. Neither is Mobile HDR Premium certified, though. This is where a phone is tested to ensure it offers a level of brightness and contrast that makes HDR worthwhile, and you don’t tend to get that with a standard mid-range IPS LCD panel such as this. But let’s get real: this is a mid-price phone that does not have a truly huge screen.
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HDR or not, this probably isn’t the phone to buy if you spend hours a day watching Netflix on your mobile. The larger Honor 8X is a better choice in that case, even without HDR. Nokia has added an HDR10 upscaled mode that boosts standard video, photos and games. It works, too – although offers an unrealistic portrayal of the Nokia 7.1’s own photos, which is a shame.
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There’s little to say about the notch other than that it’s fairly narrow, leaving plenty of room for notification icons. Note that unlike Honor’s affordable notch phones, you can’t hide it. Motorola Moto One — Software The Nokia 7.1 runs Android 8.1.0 and Android One. This is a Google programme that gets you close to the experience of pure Android, with almost no preinstalled apps, and very few alterations to the software. It also guarantees three years’ worth of security updates. As you can tell from the version of Android that the Nokia 7.1 runs, though, it doesn’t also guarantee that software updates will arrive as quickly as they do on the Pixel phones.
Android 9.0 is available, but this phone still runs version 8.1.0. As such, there are no app usage controls to help you try to limit your social media use. That’s the most obvious omission, though; the Nokia 7.1 software looks as clean and inviting as you’d hope from an Android One device. Nokia is easily the most important Android One partner, having made a host of phones in the programme, including the Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 8 Sirocco and Nokia 6. Android One significantly limits what you can customise outside of changing the wallpaper or using a launcher app. However, unlike the Motorola Moto One, you can change the shape of icons. The default circles are arguably the most attractive – but others give the phone a slightly different visual personality. Nokia 7.1 — Performance The Nokia 7.1 has a Snapdragon 636 processor.
This offers eight Kryo 260 cores clocked at 1.8GHz, and is technically more powerful than the Snapdragon 625 used in the Moto One. Sure enough, in Geekbench 4 the Nokia 7.1 scores 4551 points, to the Moto’s roughly 4300 points. There isn’t much in it, but the Nokia has a er, marginally faster CPU. However, you wouldn’t guess this from day-to-day use. The phone is frequently a little slow, with little moments of lag in all types of apps. Sometimes, the keyboard takes a beat to appear. Elements in apps often load a little less quickly than expected. Crucially, this is more noticeable than in the Nokia 7.1’s two main rivals, the Moto One and Honor 8X. Neither of those phones is quite as fast as the top models, but the disparity is clearer here.
It’s a big problem, since while this phone’s £299 price is fairly accessible, at that price you have a right to expect near-flawless performance.
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