DETAILED REVIEW OF NOKIA 3.1 PLUS
Two years after Nokia was placed under guardianship, the face and range of the Finnish brand seem to be quite diverse: Nokia has a long history and enjoys great confidence in the Indian mobile market, and now it has an Android smartphone right from the price range to the price range of the flagship territory. I have to admit that Nokia has done a very good cleaning.
Nokia 3.1 Plus is a simple smartphone. Its specification lists decent numbers: a 6-inch 18:9 display, a MediaTek Helio P22 chipset with 3 GB of RAM, a 3,500 mAh battery and Android 8.1 Oreo, courtesy of Google’s Android One program. Does all this lead to satisfactory smartphone operation? Let’s find out.
CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN
Nokia claims that the 3.1 Plus uses a milled aluminum cover. The hands have a pleasant and smooth surface, pleasant and pleasant to the touch. The four corners of the cover are tastefully curved. At 8.19mm thick, the 3.1Plus is thin enough to be noticed at school, but at 180 g it is too heavy to fit in the pockets of baggy pajamas. The Nokia brand is thinly printed on the phone cover. On the back panel there are two vertically positioned camera sensors with a single LED flash lined with a clean chrome ring. There is a small circular fingerprint scanner under the cameras, which is quickly triggered when the screen is unlocked. On the front panel there is a large curved screen that follows the shape of the phone cover.
If we look at the sides of the phone, we can see that the top of the Nokia 3.1 Plus has a 3.5mm audio jack for headphones and an additional microphone. There is nothing on the left side except the SIM card tray. At the bottom there is a microUSB connector with speaker grilles on each side. Unfortunately, only the speaker is located in the right grille, and in the other there is just a dummy. On the right side we have a volume control and a power button. Push the buttons with enough feedback, but more trips would be desirable. Overall, the construction and design of the Nokia 3.1 Plus seems to justify more than the retail price.
SCREEN AND SOUND
The front panel of the Nokia 3.1 Plus is equipped with a 6-inch curved display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and a maximum resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels. According to Nokia, it has tempered glass for protection, but it’s definitely not Gorilla Glass. This is understandable, given the price of the phone, but the higher resolution is terribly lacking. Fortunately, there is no terrible notch at the top to delete important information. The colors on the big screen look completely muted. The white backlight color merges with the screen, eliminating all colors, especially black. The brightness of the 422 lux screen seems to be sufficient for use in bright sunlight, but the glass above it plays a role because it leaves too reflective and delicate fingerprints. The low resolution on such a large screen makes the text grainy than it should be. One thing is for sure: the screen is not a strong point of the Nokia 3.1 Plus.
The sound of the Nokia 3.1 Plus monaural speaker is loud, but not very clear. The sound starts to crack when the volume is increased. The dynamics lack the clarity of low and medium frequencies. The sound is loud enough to fill a medium-sized conference room, but not loud enough to be heard in the sea of human voices around. You may need a portable Bluetooth speaker to play music. The sound in the headphones is loud enough to make phone calls.
achievement
Like the inexpensive Redmi 6, the Nokia 3.1 Plus is equipped with a MediaTek Helio P22 chipset with an eight-core Cortex A53 processor and 3 GB of LPDDR3 RAM. The internal memory capacity is 32 GB, while the external memory capacity can reach 400 GB with a microSD card. The graphics are compatible with the PowerVR GE8320 GPU. The Nokia 3.1 Plus refinement device received average marks in our performance tests. In the AnTuTu 7.0 version, Nokia surpassed the Honor 7c, which is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chipset with 4 GB of RAM, by almost 6,000 points. In the 3DMark Slingshot graphics performance test, Nokia 3.1 Plus lagged behind Honor 7c by 210 points.
In the real world, Nokia 3.1 Plus performed worse than expected. Launching heavy applications like Chrome took more than three seconds. Switching between tabs occurred with several stutters in the animation. When you press the Home button, the phone freezes for a few seconds from time to time. However, playing Asphalt 8: Airborne with all the other closed apps was surprisingly enjoyable. There was no visible decrease in frame rate or increase in temperature. Opening and switching between applications is usually slow in Nokia 3.1 Plus. This could work with the extra amount of RAM. If speed is exactly what you need, consider investing a few thousand more to get something like the Redmi Note 5 Pro.