Nokia XR20 | Unboxing & Full Tour | Toughest Phone of 2021! By Tech Spurt

Say, hello to the Nokia xr20, quite a bland, unassuming name, but don't be fooled because the Nokia xr20 is one tough. Imagine if Jason, MoMA and Vin Diesel were somehow able to procreate well, the Nokia xr20 would be the smartphone equivalent of that impossible child and when the Nokia xr20 hits the UK it'll cost you 399 quid sim free. So that means it's going to be competing with likes the Pixel 4a, the OnePlus word 2, and that Poco f3, undoubtedly some very strong smartphones as far as the spec score, but put them side by side with the Nokia xr20 and frankly, they look like utter and also the phones, manufacturers, HMD global, will apparently plant 50 new trees for every Nokia xr20 that is sold. You see, google nurturing some plant life every time someone buys a pixel, or maybe one plus growing a bit of shrubbery action every time someone bags one of their phones. I don't bloody think so. Anyway, it's time for me to shut my mouth and whip out my xr20 and see what it's capable of, and for more than that, it's a great step.

Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers so first up, let's see what you've actually got bundled in the box, along with the Nokia xr20 and as you can see there, there is a pad of chat. Unfortunately, that is because Nokia is on that environmental drive, so you will have to provide your own, and that means that all you get in this little box is a bit USB cable action, a voil?, and then you do also get several uh manuals, all for basically every language under the sun, so those 53 should just about cover that off and that's it for the actual box, there's no case or cover or anything bundled in there as well. But that is because the xr20 is tougher than a week old, gammon, and I'll. Tell you what this Nokia blower is. Quite the chunky monkey as well as you can see there, and it's got quite the heft to it as well, at 248 grams, one of the heaviest smartphones, I've handled of all time.

I think never mind in 2021. This is the ultra blue model. It's certainly a very dark blue, that's for sure, but you can also pick up the xr20 in a granite color, which is basically a dark gray. Over on the right side, you appear to have an edge mounted fingerprint sensor, as well as the volume rocker as well, while on the other edge you've got the inevitable dedicated Google Assistant button and there's also a mysterious red button up top, which I'll definitely be investigating later. That is also where you'll find the sim tray down below.

You got your type c. USB port you've got a headphone jack, hip, hip, hooray, it's got space for lanyard as well. Although you don't get one bundled with the Nokia xr20 you'll have to spunk up a bit more cash for that, it's good to see. There's no Nokia Brandon on a big fat lip down below as well, which is definitely a convention. I'd, be happy to uh to die in the dirt.

You want to get a nice subtle bit of Nokia Brandon here on this edge and, of course, around back, naturally right. So exactly how proper hard is the Nokia xr20? Well, this beefcake sports, a 3d NATO, textured, rear end and meanwhile up front. You've got a drop resistant, gorilla, glass, Vitus display which hopefully will prove scratch resistant too. The phone is past military standard. It's 10h testing, so against five falls of almost two meters, as well as extreme temperatures and humidity, and all that guff.

While the ip68 water resistance means you can basically just chuck it in a swimming pool just for a bit of a laugh all right. So I've come outside to do a drop test with the Nokia XR 20 because it seems kind of silly to do in a box and one of the toughest smartphones in 2021, without at least doing that and in case you're wondering yes, this is actually the very last shot that I'm shooting for this unboxing video just in case it goes wrong and this thing ends up in uh, basically, a pile of glass and ash okay. So here we go action, stance and yeah. It survived absolutely fine couple of little scuffs around the corners uh just on this front edge bit. Nothing too bad at all, as we'll give it a couple more just to be sure.

Yep still fully functioning never had any doubts. Let's crack open that sim tray as well see what we're working with and what you have here is ps42 sim cards, otherwise that second sim slot can be used to slap in a micro, SD memory card to expand the storage all right and then hopefully got some gas in the tank. Yes, we do so, let's get the Nokia xr20 all powered up and take you on a proper full-on tour. Oh yes, I was hoping it would do that all right. The Nokia xl20 is all set up and ready to rock.

What you got on here is the latest freshest android 11 in a lovely pleasingly stock, android form as well very little tinkering by HMD global one of the few additions by HMD is a bit of fierce unlock support. Uh to back up that edge, mounted fingerprint sensor seems reasonably sort of quick and responsive boom and so forth. No real issues with that edge mounted fingerprint sensor, either nice and nippy. I do love that noise as well bit addicted to that very satisfying, and not only is the Nokia x420 commendable, because that stock, android vibe, but also HMD global, is offered three full years of OS updates and four years of security updates for this bad boy, which is pretty much unheard of that's even better than one plus's offer for the OnePlus note 2. Here in blight and in select other regions as well.

You'll also get an extended warranty for the Nokia xr20 three years, instead of just the standard two and if you have to bust that display within the first year of purchasing the xr20 while HMD will replace it for free between all that and the tree thing I'm starting to really like them. Now. Of course, HMD has added in that dedicated Google Assistant button. So quick prod of that at any point and up it pops and as usual, that is pretty pointless, because you've got not only a dedicated assistant icon that you can tap at any point to bring up the Google Assistant. You've also got the Google search bar, which, again you can just tap this, and it brings up the Google search.

You can also drag from one of the bottom corners to call up the voice assistant as well, although this seems to be slightly clunky here on the Nokia x420. Take several goals before you actually manage to get it to bloody work. There you go as for that mystery red button up top. Well, apparently, this is a customizable emergency button to give that a quick tap and, unlike the Google Assistant key as you can see there, this is fully customizable and there's actually quite a lot of features you can assign to either a short or a long press. As you can see there lots of stuff to choose between including the ability to launch a specific application, and I guess it's called the emergency key, because you can have it set to dial your emergency contacts uh.

If you want to as well which, of course, you can set up again via this app. So if, for instance, you give this phone to an elderly relative or someone who might need assistance at some point, you can just set that up. So it's got your details in or someone else who's close by and then, if they do have a bit of a tumble or something just tap that button, and then they've got help coming on its way. Let's check out some specs in a bit closer detail. So, first the storage you get a choice of either 64 or 128 gigs.

As you can see, this is the maxed out model and, of course, expandable via micros, as well up to a further 512, gigs and yeah. All the other features that you would hope for and expect at this 400 pound mid-range price point all present and correct, including a good bit of NFC support for your contactless payments. Now moving on to the Nokia XR, 20s mammoth 6.67 inch, IPS display, which seems even bigger thanks to those big fat, mother, hammer bezels surrounding it in all directions. You've also got a minor selfie orifice cut out just in the central position there. It intrudes slightly on your videos or your games or whatever, when you do, go full screen, but not to a hideous amount.

It's a full HD plus resolution, so images are still reasonably crisp. Despite the fact it's quite a gargantuan panel color reproduction is fine, not particularly vibrant, but not faded or saturated or anything. Either. You've got very minor controls in the display settings. Sadly, no HDR support here for streaming content in the likes of Netflix, but the viewing angles are absolutely fine and the brightness levels on those top settings won't exactly dazzle you, but hopefully should be fine for a bit of outdoor use, as you can see, if you dive into the settings menus, not particularly sharp contrast at all those blacks actually look more like a sort of faded, gray, and you'll also supply that there's no way of changing the refresh rate.

That's because it's stuck at 60 hertz, there's no 90, hertz or 120 hertz option here on the Nokia xl20, which is something that a lot of rivals do offer even ones with OLED panels. So if you're after very slick visuals at this sort of price point, I would point you in the direction of something like the pixel 4 or the OnePlus word 2 instead and the Nokia xr20 does also boast a stereo speaker setup. So, let's bump up the volume see what we got. M3 pro is certainly nothing special design wise, although I do like the smart and simple aesthetics around the back at least the obligatory branded so yeah, I'm not too bad at all, slightly tiny once you get into this sort of top volumes, and it's not exactly going to burst your eardrums or anything like that. But we should be absolutely fine, just for kicking back with some baldy on YouTube, a bit of video action on the sly and of course you do have that headphone jack action, if you want to get plugged in, and you've got Bluetooth 5.1 support. If you want to go wireless now running the show here on the Nokia xr20 is the Qualcomm snapdragon 480 chipsets.

Now that is typically found on budget smartphones, about half the price or even cheaper than that uh compared with the Nokia xr20, and I have found on most of those phones that the performance is kind of limited uh, but not terrible by any means. It can certainly do all the stuff you'd want to do in your everyday existence. You know a bit social medias web browser and all that stuff. Absolutely no problem just had the occasional little grievance like. Sometimes it would take a while to load up the camera app, especially if you had a few other apps running at the same time, but touch wood, because you've got a please in the stock version of android.

Hopefully, things will run nice and smooth here on the Nokia xl20, the geek bench scores on perfectly respectable. Although again at this sort of price point, you can find much better performance from the likes of the OnePlus notes, 2, for instance, which scored closer to 800, single core and 2400 multi-core and just for comparison purposes. Some of the other smartphones that use this 480 chipset or the likes of the Motorola motor g50, the Oppo a74 5g. So definitely considerably cheaper. Let's see around half the price of this one, so definitely no real complaints so far, and I am definitely expecting to be able to do a bit light gaming at the very least on this bad boy as well.

So, let's just boot up a bit of Call of Duty, see how this goes yeah. The good news is the call of duty mobile played absolutely fine on the higher detail settings as well nice and smooth a couple of tiny little cutters here and there, but certainly nothing game breaking uh still perfectly competitive, or at least it would have been if I didn't suck donkey at basically all games and the snapdragon 480 chipsets does have a built-in 5g modem, as well so like most smartphones these days to be faded off for 5g support here on the Nokia xr20. As for the battery tech, it's a 4 630 William cell crammed into the Nokia XL 20s, pretty chunky chassis to be fair, and that should happily give you all deer play. No worries whatsoever. This uh battery meter is barely ticked down at all, despite the fact that I've been streaming video on Netflix and Disney, plus I've been playing a good bit of Call of Duty and stuff because uh the snapdragon 480 chipsets is nice and energy.

Efficient. You've also got, of course, that stock version of android nor heavy launchers sat on top sapping the battery there. Well, you do finally manage to drain the xr20. Well, it's 18 watts fast charge, and not particularly fast at all. At this sort of price point likes, the OnePlus words 2 will power up a lot quicker, shall we say, but where the Nokia xl20 does make up, for that is the fact that it's got support for 15 watt QI wireless charging, which means that you can actually just stick it on a wireless charging pad, don't have to stick in the old type c, USB cable, and it will power back up again and that's a feature- that's very rare, to find at this sort of price point now, let's finish with a squint at the Nokia xl20s rear camera tech.

What you got here is a 48 megapixel primary sensor is once again a mass branded setup, of course, backed up by a 13 megapixel ultra-wide angle, lens, and you've even got a dual flash setup around the back there as well, so sorted for your nighttime shots. I'm assuming that you can use that as a torch as well. Oh yeah yep, you sure, can be okay. That was super, super dumb. You could also change how crazy strong that torch beam is and there's even an uh, a SOS feature which will have it flashing in a good old, Morse code, amazing, but anyway, back to the camera tech, which was uh.

What I was talking about originally and, as I said, it's 48 megapixel primary sensor actually shoots in 12 megapixel uh by default, using quad pixel bin om, just as a quick, simple idea of how good those Nokia xr20 optics are. Here's a few test sample shots. I took around the homestead and seems to be sort of naturalist color reproduction, some nice fine detail as well. You don't want to be pushing the Nokia xr20 with two testing conditions, such as really strong, sharp contrast, but apart from that should be absolutely fine for your everyday picks. You can also quickly and easily swap to that 13 megapixel ultra-wide angle shooter with the top legs, so as you can see not exactly the fastest swapping between them again, that's a bit of 480 action there for you and there's also a two times zoom mode, but it's just digital zoom.

Of course, as you can see there, you do get little suggestions popping up courtesy of the camera AI, which just tells you to swap to a different board. So, for instance, you could be a portrait action if you're shooting a living subject, not that veronica is living. Sadly- and this gives you a bunch of filters and the usual stuff that you can play around with as well all kinds of different uh background, both style action, mass, smooth, mass, swirl, a bit of heart and star action. You've also got a dedicated night mode for those low light shots. This will just take lots of different snaps at different apertures and then meld them together for hopefully attractive results, and, if you jump on into the mall section, that's where you'll find the likes the pro manual controls as well.

If you want to play around with likes the ISO levels, the shutter speeds use this mode to shoot in raw. If you want to edit on the fly. Unfortunately, there's no support, certainly not at launch for 4k video capture here on the Nokia xr20 again, that's probably a limitation of the snapdragon 480 chipset uh, but what you can do is shoot full HD video with a good bit of surround sound, also audio support as well, and it's good to see that uh Nokia's once again brought back the cinema mode. So this just allows you to shoot 21 by 9 aspect. Ratio of footage, so you've got that nice cinema screen style effect.

You've got a lot of filters you can play around with to change up the look and feel of the shots with noise reduction. Lots of different features that you can play around with there's an itch log format: option. If you want a bit of HDR support as well and video stabilization and, of course not forgetting that eight megapixel front facing selfie camera as well, so let's swap to that, and you should be yeah absolutely fine. Few sorts of basic bog-standard selfies actually looks like skin tones are reasonably accurate, uh, decent contrast and everything just from a quick squint at that they do have uh support for the old portrait mode and everything as well. If you want to just blur out the background, make it all about that face so that right there in a nutshell, is the Nokia xr20 and, as you can see, limited in a couple of regions, the performance definitely isn't as strong as a lot of rivals and that display texts are the sits and the shadows are the likes of the OnePlus word 2, the Google Pixel 4a polo, f3, etc.

But if you're after a stock, android smartphone that boasts incredible durability, then the Nokia xl20 is definitely well worth a squint, because this is one tough nut, and it should suit most everyday users down to the ground. Despite the fact that performance isn't as good as many rivals, you should still be able to do everything you need to with only the occasional little stumbling butter here and there battery life should be spot on, and it's great to see. Uh features like that cheap wireless charging on there as well, which you generally do not get this sort of price point. So that's what I think of the Nokia xr20. What do you guys recommend to your thoughts down in the comments below? Please do post subscribe and ding that notifications bell for more on the latest and greatest tech and have yourselves a fantastic rest of the week.

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