Nokia 7 Plus hands-on: a phone to rely on
Most of the phone's front side is occupied by a 6-inch, high-resolution display with bright, pretty colors. With the Nokia 7 Plus, the company joins the increasingly popular trend of 18:9 aspect ratio screens, maximizing the phone's display-to-body ratio. Since there's no room for a fingerprint scanner on the front of the device, that has been moved to the back, right below the protruding dual camera.
On the software side, the Nokia 7 Plus runs a clean and up-to-date version of Android. This is Android One we're dealing with, to be more specific – a clean version of Android with nothing dragging it down. Given the lack of any bloat on this phone, we're not surprised to see that the Nokia 7 Plus is fast and responsive, aided by a Snapdragon 660 chip on the inside, although browsing our website on Google Chrome did exhibit some slight lag. We do hope that was just the pre-production nature of our demo unit manifesting itself.
The dual camera at the back is a key selling factor for the Nokia 7 Plus. It combines a regular camera with a 2X zoom telephoto shooter, both with Zeiss optics used in their construction. Pro mode is available for those more experienced photographers, as well as Nokia's Bothie mode, letting you shoot photos and video with both the front and the rear cameras simultaneously.
All in all, the Nokia 7 Plus is shaping up like a great offering in the 400 dollar/euro price category – one with no bells and whistles, one that has all essentials covered. Nokia is marketing the handset as one that you can rely on, and it looks like it could deliver on this promise.
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