Nokia 5.1 Review (Full Specifications And Price)

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Earlier this week, HMD announced the new Nokia 5.1 Android smartphone. The Nokia 5.1 is a successor to the earlier released Nokia 5 and will be released by July. Also, this device falls into the mid-range category because of its low budget pricing. Meanwhile, this device has some few high-end features under its hood.

The new Nokia 5.1 features a 5.5-inch, 18:9 display with full HD+ resolution, an octa-core chipset, 2GB or 3GB of RAM, and 16GB or 32GB of inbuilt storage. In addition, there’s a microSD slot, a 16MP rear camera, an 8MP wide-angle front camera, Android 8.1 Oreo + Android one, and a 2,960mAh battery.

Let me go ahead and review this device.

Design and Display

The Nokia 5.1 has its body wrapped in a premium metallic unibody. With a front glass and an aluminium body.

The Nokia 5.1 has dimensions of 151.1 x 70.7 x 8.2 mm (5.95 x 2.78 x 0.32 in). With a weight of 170g.

This device also has a 5.5-inch IPS Capacitive Touch-screen, with 16M colours. With a resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels, it has an 18:9 aspect ratio (~439 ppi density).

This Smartphone comes as a Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) model. And also has its screen protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass material.

There’s a Fingerprint Scanner located at the front of the phone, and it comes in three colour variants: Copper, Tempered Blue, and Black.

Hardware and Software

The Nokia 5.1 comes with Android 8.0 (oreo) + Android One operating system.

The Nokia 5.1 is powered by a MediaTek Helio P18 chipset with a 64-bit processor. Furthermore, it also comes with an Octa-core processor clocked at 2.0 GHz.

This device also offers 2/3Gb of RAM and 16/32Gb of inbuilt memory. Which can be expanded to 256Gb using a microSD card.

Other sensors on this device are Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass sensors.

Camera and Battery

The Nokia 5.1 features a 16 MP (f/2.0, 27mm, 1.0µm) camera. With phase detection autofocus, dual-LED dual-tone flash.

Upfront, there’s also an 8 MP (f/2.0, 1.12µm), 1080p camera. This camera takes pretty good selfies that will wow your imagination.

As for the battery life, there’s a Non-removable Li-Ion 2970 mAh battery.

Price

The Nokia 5.1 Android smartphone sells for about 200 EUR. Which is equivalent to N83,993.

Full Specifications

Here are the full specifications of the Nokia 5.1.

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH	Announced	2018, May
LAUNCH	Status	Coming soon. Exp. release 2018, July

BODY	Dimensions	151.1 x 70.7 x 8.2 mm (5.95 x 2.78 x 0.32 in)
	Weight	–
	Build	Front glass, aluminum body (6000 series)
	SIM	Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

DISPLAY	Type	IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	5.5 inches, 78.1 cm² (~73.1% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1080 x 2160 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~439 ppi density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version)

PLATFORM	OS	Android 8.0 (Oreo); Android One
	Chipset	MediaTek Helio P18
	CPU	Octa-core 2.0 GHz

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot)
	Internal	32 GB, 3 RAM or 16 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	16 MP, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED dual-tone flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
	Video	1080p@30fps
	Secondary	8 MP

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	4.2, A2DP, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	FM radio
	USB	micro USB 2.0, USB On-The-Go

FEATURES	Sensors	Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML5
		– MP4/H.264 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player – Photo/video editor – Document viewer