Nokia 8 V 5G UW unboxing: a $700 Nokia "flagship" for Verizon! By Mobile Tech Podcast

Hey folks welcome to another day another unboxing. What I've got here is Nokia's 8v, 5g, UW yeah, that's a mouthful. This is the Verizon version of the Nokia 8.3 5g that was announced originally around mobile congress and finally released recently here in the US for Verizon. So there it is. This is the box. I've got some stuff on the sides here.

Some text here some details here, here's more information for you, I'll leave it up and then, of course, there's and I'm at the bottom. Before we start, though, I have something very special, I'm going to show you before this video ends, and it's related to this phone so stay tuned. This is the good part all right here we go nothing in here. This is the phone. This is a divider with a sim removal tool.

This is some paperwork, get started with Nokia and Spanish as well. So let me actually open this up, so we can have a look and see what it looks like ta-da. Here we go. Let me get a little closer, so this is the first panel, and this is the next panel. There we go and then there is a consumer safety stuff and more safety stuff.

So we don't really care about that. Next up we got another box, and I bet you that's the charger and all the good stuff charger cord, no beer buds in here. So here we go not sure exactly what the wattage is on this, but I'll leave it up, and I'll show you once I figure it out all right, so USB type, a to type c cable. Obviously you can see the type c connector in there the type a connector in here. It's pretty standard fare stuff.

So that's it for the box right. So let's have a look at the phone now, as you can see, there's a dedicated Google Assistant button like a lot of Nokia phones, press to talk to assistant and I think, there's an image sticker on the back. So, let's see, if I can pull this out like this and here's the front of the phone, let me turn it on and while it's firing up I'm going to remove that I'm a sticker in the back here we go all right now. You can see the back taxa Nokia, stupid, Verizon, tram, stamp, 5g logo here, camera pod and here's the front. As you can see.

This is a beautiful screen with a really massive chin. So we know it's an IPS panel right away. So let's actually look at some of those specs. This is a 6.81 inch, 1080p IPS LCD. It has a 20 to 9 aspect ratios.

It is a 60hz display, there's no 90 or 120 hertz going on here. This is a snapdragon 765 g with six gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage, plus micro SD 64 gigs is not a lot of storage space, but the micro SD should help the battery is a 4500 William hour battery. It is 18 watt fast charging and well. If you want to call it fast charging, it supports 18 watt. Let's have a look at the cameras, so the front facing camera here is a 24 megapixel f over 2.0 0.9 micron sensor with mass lens, which is nice 1080p 30 frames per second video recording, there's an earpiece here as well as right there and then again that chin wow. It is a massive, then, in the back you got four cameras.

So let's talk about these you've got a 64 megapixel main sensor, f of a 1.8 with 0.8 micron pixels and face detect autofocus. Strangely no is. Of course this has mass optics as well. There's a 12 megapixel ultra-wide f over 2.2 with 1.4 micron, pixels and autofocus. That's actually pretty interesting.

They have autofocus on the ultra-wide and that it has large pixels like that. Obviously, the 64 megapixel main sensor pixel bins four to one, so it combines those.8 micron pixels into 1.6 microns, still interesting, that the ultrawide has some good specs 2 megapixel macro no detail on whether it has autofocused and, of course, a 2 megapixel depth sensor pretty common these days on these phones. You know I call them sticker cameras because basically they might as well be stickers they're just there for camera account. Basically, you can see there is a dual led flash here on the back and Nokia logo, as I mentioned before. So this is an IPS panel.

So where is the fingerprint sensor? Well, it's not in display. So it's on the edge right here on the power lock key, which is a perfect place for it. I think next to the volume rocker here on the right hand, side and the sim slot micro SD slot right here. So those three things live side by side. Then on the bottom you have a headphone jack primary microphone, USB type c port and a speaker.

Now, I'm not sure if this has stereo speakers I'll, let you know on the right-hand side here you have that Google Assistant button I mentioned earlier and on top you have a secondary microphone now. This feels very fingerprint happy, as you can see already poof. It's kind of a little unfortunate, I think, but hey I'm not sure if this is plastic or glass, mid-frame, looks and feels like some sort of composite plastic like a Kevlar to me, but the back might actually be glass hard to tell so. This is a Verizon phone here in the US which mean it has millimeter wave 5g in addition to sub 65g for Verizon's new network. So that's actually pretty exciting if you're a Verizon customer the price on this phone is 700 us dollars 699, which is, I think, a lot of money for a snapdragon 765 g phone with an IPS panel.

That's only 60 hertz. So that's my initial kind of gut feeling, especially 64 gigabytes of storage and no is, so I'm not sure what they were thinking there in terms of pricing. I think you're better off buying a pixel 5 at this point that costs the same amount of money but gives you all the pixel goodness in terms of imaging and particularly things like is and an OLED display- and you know, 90 hertz, and you know more ram, more base storage. So you know that's kind of my gut feeling right now, but hey, and before we go. I promised you something special, and I have here something that was in the press kit, which is an exploded view of this phone.

It's very, very cool! So, let's go through that. Shall we've got these acrylic panels? The first one has a display on it. There's some text here, so I'm going to leave it up like this, so you can read if it's talking about the pure display with pixel works and then here's the back of the display. Then we have the mid-frame right here. You know that's what we talk about when we talk about the mid-frame and then, as you can see here, there's more text Nokia inside and out and there you can see the back of the mid-frame.

Then we have the actual circuit board and battery, and it says here: Qualcomm performance, so there's your battery all the chips and the other circuit boards. That's what it looks like in the back, it's pretty cool! Then we have the camera modules and the millimeter wave antennas. So this says Verizon 5g and mass optics. So here are the back of the cameras, there's a front facing camera and then the four rear cameras here, and you can see the millimeter wave antennas on the sides here very interesting, and then we have the final one, which is the back panel finish design because HMD global the owners of Nokia brand are Finnish company and there you go, you can see the inside and outside the back panel. So this is pretty cool.

I wanted to share with you, because it's not every day you get such cool schwa when you do an unboxing right so anyway, that's it! That's the Nokia 8 v, 5g UW, that name for Verizon. It's basically a US version of the Nokia 8.3 5g. So like subscribe, tell your friends, click the notification bell below comment below tell me: would you buy this phone? Would you because you like Nokia, maybe you have that nostalgia for the Nokia brand? Would you consider getting this phone in the US locked to this carrier? You know, for whatever reason, I'd like to know and uh. Remember the podcast mobiletechpodcast. com or on Google podcast apple, podcast, pocket casts and Spotify.

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