The Nokia Sirocco 8 is the most beautiful and luxurious phone presented by HMD compared to its other phones recently, the company has worked in this phone in aesthetic form and details and will notice this from the first moment to open the phone box.
Overall, the phone has a 5.5-inch QHD pOLED screen made of 95% Gorilla glass and a stainless steel frame.
The phone will come with a Snapdragon 835 processor, 6 gigabytes of random memory, 128GB of storage, dual back camera, fingerprint sensor, face recognition and Android 8.1 Oreo.
Design and Screen
HMD has moved away from the usual design of its phones, which comes with a different design that will leave the impression that the design is a combination of the BlackBerry Priv and the Samsung Galaxy S8, with its glossy black appearance and curved edges of the screen. The phone also supports only one slide and not two SIM cards as usual from Nokia.
There are some other key features added by the company, the IP67 standard, water resistance, dust and wireless charging technology, QC 4 technology, 3260 mA battery, fingerprint, fast response and excellent operation.
The company is very interested in detail in terms of screen glass, which is the fifth-generation gorilla glass and the curvature of the screen and the phone as a suitable design and comfortable in the hand with curved back edges that allow him to settle better in hand.
And the phone will come with only one earphone at the bottom of the phone and you will notice that the phone bazaar is not prominent, but the response is excellent and works well and for the control buttons system is included in the screen and you will also notice that the phone is sharp, but it is not annoying.
The phone comes with a USB-C port and an internal speaker, but there is no headset port where Nokia has chosen to remove port 3.5 from this phone, although it has retained it on all other phones launched at MWC 2018.
You will find a voice adapter in your phone box, but it is not as convenient as having a dedicated port on your phone especially if you forget or lose the adapter.
The curved 5.5-inch screen is bright and colorful, providing an excellent gaming surface and video playback.
Phone performance
The Nokia 8 Sirocco comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor plus 6 GB of RAM, so the Nokia 8 Sirocco must be able to run almost anything on it.
The phone works smoothly and during operation there are no flaws in the performance, although this may change once it is filled with applications, games, videos and images, but this takes time to experiment and follow up.
This phone comes with the Android Android One, which ensures the next two versions of Android updates and three years of security updates.
The phone will come with a 3260 mAh rechargeable battery, which will hold you up to the end of the day with normal and average use with 80% and 85% consumption and the time to operate the screen over 5 hours and a half. Which will allow you to charge the battery 60% in 30 minutes.
Integrated Qi wireless charging is also available, giving you an easier way to connect your handset as long as you have a wireless charging board.
Camera
For the camera, the phone comes with a Zeiss double camera in the back, one 12 megapixel camera and the other with a 13-megapixel camera, allowing you to take pictures of the effect of the bouquet, as well as the Bothie feature or the two cameras.
Contains Bokeh Live mode, which allows you to set the background blur level with instant visual results on the screen allowing you to set up the image.
The phone is equipped with a professional camera application that can take you to Pro or Auto mode, allowing you to adjust controls such as white balance, shutter speed and focus.
As for the rear camera it is excellent in terms of details and colors in good lighting but in poor lighting the interference rates were clear but not disturbing.
The rear camera has an optical stabilizer when shooting 1080p video, but it is not present when shooting at 4k and is capable of optical zoom without any problems even with 4k. The front camera comes with a 5-pixel camera, which is sufficient for personal images and video calls, and is also equipped with optical stabilizer.