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| Nokia G50 Unboxing & First Impression |
so the fresh new Nokia g50 smartphone is one big budget
blower and when I say big i mean that very much in the literal sense because this thing is so massive that
even clowns would probably struggle to fit inside of their ridiculously oversized
pants the nokia g50 hits the uk from today and will cost you just 199 quid it's
a gargantuan 5g ready smartphone with a stock android ui and guaranteed os
updates so if you like it big but you're strapped for cash this could very well
be the one for you now stay tuned for my in-depth nokia g50 review that will be landing very shortly indeed but for now let's whip it on out of the box take you on a full-on tour of the hardware in the software and for more on the latest and greatest tech please do poke subscribe
if you're a bit impatient well there's all of the nokia g50
specs at a glance including a good bit of French translation
so what do you get in that box besides of course the nokia
g50 well as usual you've got like a million friggin manuals in every language
going you've got one adapter to charge up your nokia g50 and hold on to your
pants because there's even a type c usb cable and that's it very simple stuff
and so this here is the nokia g50 and
all i can see is if you thought the
nokia x020 was a bit of a house brick
well the g50 is very much of the same
milk now the nokia g50 is a hefty Wii
bugger weighing in at 220 grams which is
very similar to sort of premium gaming
smartphones which are packed with all
kinds of tech and generally quite on the
large side as well it certainly could
never be described as slender that is
for sure it's quite a chunky monkey uh
and yeah no definitely a bit of a palm
filler as well that's it two-handed use
at all times is probably going to be
advisable
if you're paranoid about anyone lifting your smartphone out
of your pocket without you realizing it
well you'll certainly notice if this
thing gets pinched it's an old plastic
construction as you would expect plastic
engine and a separate plastic back end
as well which you can grab in two different scandinavian colors this here ocean
blue or also midnight sun gotta see I quite like the blue model it's kind of dark
and mysterious and a very simple finish
as you can see there literally the nokia brandon the camera chassis and that is it on that back end the camera does
jut out ever so slightly but not to a horrific degree you've got your edge mounted fingerprint sensor there which doubles
up as the power button volume rocker
headphone jack up top which is always great to see type c usb connection down
below and yeah one of those pesky
dedicated google assistant buttons over on the left edge and despite the fact
you've got a freaking enormous six point
eight to two inch display here on the nokia g50 they’ve still managed to find a
bit of room to squeeze in a second bit of nokia brand in there just beneath the
display let's just crack open that sim tray and see hopefully we should have a couple of different
sim slots and indeed you do so you can
stick in a couple of sims at once otherwise that second slot can be used for
micro sd memory cards to expand the storage so here we go a lovely little bit
of nokia g50 action already and raring to go and as with all nokia branded
smartphones we've got a lovely stock version of the latest android 11 on here
uh no real crap where stuffed on a couple of random little apps like express vpn
but everything else i
put on there myself or it's just your
standard google shenanigans
unfortunately customization is quite
limited here on the nokia g50 so i've stuck on my own geeky anime background
but apart from that you are very very limited in what you can do so for
instance you can't get rid of this pesky search bar thing uh down at the bottom you're stuck with that and also there's no way of remapping that google assistant button to any
other apps that you might happen to use the best you can manage is just disable
it in those settings and to be fair at least you've got that option because it
is rather awkwardly positioned right in the middle of that left edge so i can
see myself fumbling that by accident quite a bit when I’m slipping the nokia
g50 back into my pocket for instance one of the best things about the nokia
branded smartphones is the future-proofing as well manufacturer hmd global is promising
two years of android os updates and three years of security updates for this
thing as well so not quite as much as
some of its siblings some of the nokia branded smartphones come with three
years of android os updates and four years of security updates but pretty damn
good all the same and all your typical smartphone features that you'd expect to
find even on a 200 pound handset are present and correct here on the nokia g5 including
a bit of nfc for your contactless payments and touchwood so far that edge
mounted fingerprint sensor seems nice and responsive so you don't even have to
press in the power button just tap your digit to the surface and as you can see
nice and swift and as an alternative option to that fingerprint sensor you've
also got face unlock which as you can see takes a little bit longer just to uh
scan and recognize your mug
it doesn't seem to work when you're wearing a fierce mask
which i guess is good from a security viewpoint that's for the storage works it
chose to be the 64 or 128 gigs of internal space here on the nokia g50 but you
have that micro SD support up to 512 gigs so plenty of extra space if you need
it now that display as I’ve mentioned before a chuffing massive 6.82 inch panel
so you can certainly make the most of the 5g connectivity on the nokia g50 by streaming
shed loads of Netflix Disney plus or some talentless gormless plonker on YouTube
sadly it's an hd plus screen not full hd plus so because of the size of this
panel you know the images don't look supremely crisp uh let's see but you know
there's enough detail packed in there so you can enjoy flipping through your
photo album you can you know watch a movie no worries the visuals aren't grainy just not quite as crisp as most rivals
at this price point viewing angles are
perfectly fine on the top brightness
level you might struggle outdoors but certainly indoors use was absolutely no
problem whatsoever and for an ips panel the color reproduction is reasonably
vibrant uh you know it's it's good enough to make images not look duller
lifeless and yes you do have one of those
quaint old nipple notches poking its way ever so slightly into proceedings when
you go up full screen but nothing too
major sadly though the nokia g50 does make do with a 60 hertz display there's
no support for 90 hertz refresh despite the facts and ips paddle
so lots of rivals from the likes of realme and Motorola and
xiaomi at this sort of price point do offer that faster refresh for supported
apps as for your audio well as mentioned before you got that headphone jack
which is fantastic to see you got your Bluetooth 5 support
if you want to go
wireless instead and you do have a mono speaker setup so let's bump up the
volume on the nokia g50 and see if that speaker output is class. it's perfectly serviceable certainly gets loud
enough on that top volume where you should hopefully be able to cut through a
fair bit of background clamor when watching a bit YouTube or whatever but of
course as you'd probably expect quite a tiny output as well so I’d definitely
say stick to your headphones now power and proceedings here on the nokia g50 is
the QUALCOMM snapdragon 480 chipset as coincidentally also found on the Motorola
moto g50 as well as nokia's own x10 and x20 handsets which recently launched
that's backed here on the nokia g50 by either four or six gigs of ram depending
on how much money you throw at hmd global basically and fairly basic performance
as you tend to get out of the snapdragon 400 series chipsets as you can see
there any geek bench fans uh you've got quite low single and multi-core scores
but that said other smartphones that i've tested using that snapdragon 40
chipset they generally handle everyday life absolutely fine now
i'm talking media
streaming browsing the internet all that kind of shenanigans but I’m gonna give
it a super quick call of duty test right now just to see how it handles a bit
of light gaming so I had a quick frantic blast here on call of duty mobile on
the nokia g50 and despite the fact that i bumped up the graphics the higher
detail settings and higher frame rate it was a nice consistently smooth
experience the frame rate stayed strong and stable throughout found that the screen
was nice and responsive as well so touches and swipes all instantly registered
so great for these fast paced online fragathons and certainly the spacious
display did help because you get a clear view of the action anyone lurking in
the distance
I think that smooth frame rate has probably helped along as
well by the fact that you've got that stock android experience here so there's
no heavy launchers sat on top of android which might potentially make things a
bit more sluggish and as mentioned of course one of the other benefits of the
snapdragon 480 chipset other than the fact that it's quite energy efficient
therefore should hopefully get a good battery life out of the nokia g50 is the
fact you've got the built-in 5g modem as well so you've got that future-proof connectivity
and speaking of the battery life you've got 5 000 milliamp cell tucked away
inside of the mighty frame of the nokia g50 and again because of that energy
efficient platform that should easily give you all day use even if you're never
off the sudden thing and yeah you've got a big display to power here but it is
only a 720p panel so it shouldn't tap too much juice i reckon with quite
conservative use uh hmd global's estimate of two full days of use on a single
charge is probably pretty much on the money there is on the 18 watt fast charge
support so it will take a little while to juice back up again and last up let's
take a squint at the back end of the nokia g50 again check out that triple lens
rear camera now it's a 48 megapixel primary camera sensor does use four in one
pixel bending to produce 12 megapixel photos by default and as you can see
there you have an ai mode on board as well so this can suggest you switch into
different uh features for instance here bit portrait mode
because I’m shooting the lovely gorgeous veronica I want to
focus just on her uh slightly lifeless gaze you can if you want to change up
not only the aspect ratio but also the resolution that you're shooting in all
the way up to 48 meg if you prefer that lots of bonus modes to play around with
including the aforementioned portrait mode of course which just allows you to add
a lovely bokeh style effect in the background various snowflakes butterflies
whatever you fancy you've also got a night mode to help out with those low light
shots and a couple of other bonus bits as well including a full-on pro mode if
you know what you're doing you know your way around for instance a dslr or
whatever so you can play around with the iso levels and all that to get a very
precise kind of result and this bad boy offers you the option to shoot in raw
format if you like the rest of the camera set up here on the back end of the
nokia g50 not particularly exciting you've got a basic five megapixel ultra-wide
angle lens which I’m not expecting much out of but it's there if you want a
slightly more pulled back viewpoint you've also got a two megapixel depth
sensor to help out with the likes of the portrait modes now
if you swap to video mode you are quite limited as you can
see there that's because of the snapdragon 480 chipset more than anything else
you can only shoot full hd footage at either 30 or 60 frames per second no 4k
option i think that hmd is hoping that everyone's going to do a bit of vlogging
on the nokia g50 though because apparently you've got a built-in stabilization feature for that selfie
shooter it's an eight megapixel snapper so still fairly basic um but yeah I’ll
definitely be giving that a while for my in-depth review so that right there in
a nutshell is the nokia g50 just a quick unboxing and whipping around the
hardware and the software to which your appetite for my in-depth nokia g50
review which hopefully should be coming just a couple of days so be great to
hear your early thoughts on this bad boy uh down below as you can see you know
you've got some strong rivals from the likes of xiaomi the redmi smartphones
for instance uh real me mode roller etc. but some decent specs packed in there
so if you want them big and bulky well the nokia g50 certainly uh will not
disappoint on that front lovely slick stock bit of android action with those
guaranteed updates of course and 5g support as well so yes definitely special
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