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Nokia 7 Plus

5owners with an opinion
60%of verdicts positive
1/0positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance and display; criticized for repairability and reliability.

What people wrote

Likes it
While HMD learned from this mistake and released only a few phones a year, they stuck with ugly notches at the top of the screen that acted as a customer repellent and now they are dropping NOKIA branding as nobody was buying them. I recently bought a Nokia 7 Plus for my Unitree Go2 robodog controller and I absolutely love the design that complements ZenBook S UX393 I use for developing on Linux.
Doesn’t like it
I had the worst customer support by Nokia. Purchased a Nokia 7 Plus in another country. The phone had a design issue which resulted in loose USB C port. Many people reported the same problem online. When I was back in the US, I tried reaching out to Nokia support and they literally said their repair center won’t even accept my phone for repair because I had purchased it in another country! Third party repair shops told me it takes $100 to fix the USB C port, almost 1/3 the phone price. Needless to say I didn’t do that and the phone died shortly after only because it couldn’t get charged anymore. Switched to other brands and will never buy Nokia again.
Likes it
Yes, but is not only the right to repair. For how long Nokia is willing to manufacture spare parts for this phone? A year, two? What if after 3 year my phone breaks and I can't repair it not because a repair issue per se but because of part availability. This already happened to me with a Nokia 7 Plus, which is a phone I like because it came with Android One. Now on the tech side, the phone is just fine, camera specs, screen is really good, battery is still good. I broke the charging board and the screen. Original parts for it no longer produced, only OEM ones with lower quality. So I would take this with a grain of salt. So will I need to buy the phone and immediately a pack of spare parts just in case because tomorrow they will be no longer available?
Doesn’t like it
With the pixel6 (and most android phones) you can set it up to do both. So you have the "nice" version generated by the phone and a dng raw file to work with. I have that set up along with syncthing to deliver the raw photos to my laptop (pro tip, this is super handy). The new iphone and the pixel6 both use the same trick where they have a 50 megapixel sensor (probably the same and likely a Sony sensor) that produces 12.5 megapixel raw photos with four pixels combined information. So the dng I get from my phone has already had some processing done to it but not a lot. Also worth noting that both phones have multiple lenses with different focal lengths and sensors. So, it matters a lot which one you use. You'd control this via the camera app typically with its different modes and zoom levels. I'm not sure if it uses exposures from all sensors to calculate a better raw but that would not surprise me. In terms of noise, the image quality is actually very good. I've done some night time photography with both the pixel6 and my Fuji XT-30, which is an entry level mirror less camera. The Fuji has better dynamic range and it shows in the dark. But the noise levels are actually pretty good for a phone camera. Very usable results with some simple post processing. Especially compared to my previous Android phone (a Nokia 7 plus) which was noisy even in day light. Mostly doing raw edits is not worth doing that but it's nice to have the option. The phone does a decent job of processing an…