HMD, the company behind Nokia, announced its first multi-band 5G smartphone for the US. Not only that, the $699 Nokia 8 V 5G UW, coming to Verizon November 16, is Nokia’s first phone available through a US carrier in six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the most part, the Nokia 8 V 5G UW looks like your standard flagship, made of glass and aluminum. It has a 6.81-inch FHD+ display with a hole at the top for the 24MP front-facing camera, and a thick bezel at the bottom. It comes in a glossy finish called Meteor Grey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The phone packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G chipset along with with 6GB of RAM. Storage comes in at 64GB, though you can add an additional 1TB with a microSD card. While the specs seem pretty predictable for the price, Nokia hopes the phone’s camera will help it stand out among the competition: It sports a rear camera module with a 64MP quad-pixel lens and a 12MP ultra-wide lens, as well as a 2MP depth sensor and a 2MP macro sensor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like most Nokia phones, all the lenses on the 8V 5G UW are tuned by Zeiss. It also features Zeiss Cinema, a camera app with advanced editing features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nokia 8 V 5G UW ships with Android 10, but HMD says an Android 11 upgrade is forthcoming. And while the 8 V isn’t an Android One device, HMD promises it won’t come with any preinstalled apps and that it will receive two Android upgrades and 18 months of security updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As mentioned, this is the first Nokia phone to be sold through a major US carrier in six years. Originally intended to launch with the James Bond No Time to Die <\/em>film (which has since been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Nokia is planning an aggressive marketing campaign in the US that will continue into next year when the phone is prominently displayed in the film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll be getting a Nokia 8 V 5G UW in for testing, so check back soon for a full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HMD, the company behind Nokia, announced its first multi-band 5G smartphone for the US. Not only that, the $699 Nokia 8 V 5G UW, coming to Verizon November 16, is Nokia’s first phone available through a US carrier in six years. For the most part, the Nokia 8 V 5G UW looks like your standard flagship, made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phone"],"yoast_head":"\n