Nokia 6.1 Plus

The Nokia X6 was one of the most awaited phones from the brand ever since it has come back and HMD Global has finally launched it in India as Nokia 6.1 Plus and with Android One. The first thing you notice when you see the phone is how beautiful and premium looking the device is. It comes with a glass back and metal frame and has great build quality. With 151 grams of weight, the phone is light and also has a smaller screen with notch, which makes it very compact compared to most phones out there and is relatively easy to hold and use with one hand.

The Nokia 6.1 Plus gets full marks in design and just wins you over, you could just want to buy the phone for its look but, before you come to that decision let’s talk about other vital aspects of the phone. It sports a 5.8 inches bezel-less Full HD+ display with 19:9 aspect ratio & 432 ppi pixel density. There is a notch up top, which in our opinion looks beautiful and gives you more screen real-estate. The display has good colors, good sharpness and has overall very good quality for the price. The screen comes protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3.

Coming to the performance, the Nokia 6.1 Plus is powered by the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor, which is an octa-core processor clocked at 1.8 GHz and comes with Kyro CPUs which are usually used in the high-end Snapdragon 8xx series flagship processors. The phone is coupled with 4 GB LPDDR4X RAM and Adreno 509 GPU. It delivers excellent performance for all kinds of usage and handles heavy games pretty well without overheating.

However, if you are a very heavy gamer you should extend your budget to around 21k and must go with the Poco F1 with the flagship SD 845 processor or you can also settle with the Honor Play, but if you can’t really extend your budget that much then even the Xiaomi Mi A2, which is also an Android One phone with a more powerful SD 660 processor at just Rs. 1,000 more will be a better choice.

Talking about the software part, the Nokia 6.1 Plus is an Android One phone, which means it gets the pure stock Android user interface with promised and very fast updates to the latest Android versions for at least 2 years and monthly security updates for 3 years. It also gets other benefits and new features from Google first. The Nokia 6.1 Plus gets 64 GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 400 GB via microSD card but, has a hybrid slot.

When it comes to the cameras, the Nokia 6.1 Plus gets a dual rear camera setup with a 16 MP primary sensor and a 5 MP secondary sensor. The picture quality, unfortunately, is not great. You get kind of okay shots, dynamic range being a hit and miss, colors being little dull and edge detection in the portrait mode not very accurate. It’s not like the cameras are a blunder, they are still fine but when you compare the camera quality with the similarly priced Xiaomi Mi A2, Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro, Moto G6 or even the Honor 9N, they have a lot better quality. Same is the case with the 16 MP front camera, nothing great. However, the bothie mode which lets you click or shoot from the front & rear cameras at the same time is very good.

The fingerprint scanner on the Nokia 6.1 Plus is good but is marginally slower than its competitors, which is still fine but what’s annoying is the placement on the back, which is a bit too low than your finger’s normal resting position. The Nokia 6.1 Plus doesn’t come with a good face recognition unlock feature either and relies only upon Android’s default trusted faces, which is not very fast or secure.

The Nokia 6.1 Plus is backed by a non-removable 3060 mAh Li-Ion battery, which combined with the processor’s and Android One’s efficiency delivers a decent battery backup and will last for a day if you don’t use it very aggressively. It supports fast charging but very unfortunately, it doesn’t ship with a fast charger in the box and you only get a 5V 2A, 10W charger by default. It uses USB Type-C for data syncing and charging.

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