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  • You know what’s better than one camera?

  • Seven cameras.

  • The Nokia 9 PureView is a pretty crazy looking smartphone coming from a company that’s

  • been making phones since before most of us were even born.

  • This 7-eyed alien monstrosity looking back panel looks like something well find during

  • the Area 51 Raid.

  • Huge thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this durability test.

  • Let’s get started.

  • [Intro]

  • Inside the Nokia 9 box, we have an instruction booklet, some headphones with the headphone

  • jack that are pretty much worthless since this phone has no headphone jack.

  • Oh look….there’s a donglestill worthless.

  • I’ll be honest, the main reason I bought this phone is because I want to see what it

  • looks like from the inside, but I guess we can check out the outside a bit first.

  • Let’s start with the scratch test.

  • You probably know how this works at this point.

  • I have some Mohs mineral picks that can tell what the screen from by how hard it is.

  • Plastic scratches at a level 3, and glass scratches at a level 6.

  • And sapphire, which weve seen implemented on a few phone displays, scratches at a level

  • 8 or 9.

  • The Nokia 9 PureView is scratching at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7, and is

  • advertised as using Gorilla Glass 5.

  • The PureView branded lineup of Nokia phones are known for their cameras.

  • The front camera up here in the top bezel is a 20-megapixel beast that can record in

  • 4K, and is protected under the same front glass.

  • It is situated right here next to the inlayed wiry cloth mesh.

  • The mesh is secure though and won’t ever be falling out on its own.

  • My tweezers can’t even pull it out.

  • The build of the Nokia 9 seems pretty solid.

  • The super glossy Midnight Blue back panel oozes over onto the almost glassy looking

  • smooth aluminum sides.

  • And they are indeed made from metal.

  • The volume rocker and power button are also made from metal.

  • Up here we have some more aluminum and the SIM card traywith no room for expandable

  • memory.

  • High unfortunate since this camera is capable of shooting in RAW – a really large detailed

  • file size.

  • So you would think that Nokia would want to make adding additional storage easy, but they

  • didn’t, and that’s a bummer.

  • The bottom of the phone has its singular loudspeaker.

  • No headphone jack, and a USB-C charging port.

  • Let’s talk about what makes this phone unique….it’s all these cameras.

  • Don’t get too excited just yet though.

  • They are all designed to do the exact same thing at the exact same timeadd detail.

  • There are two 12 megapixel color camerasthe main one being in the center.

  • And then there are three 12 megapixel monochrome black and white cameras.

  • So, when you take a picture, the Nokia 9 utilizes all 5 cameras at the same time to capture

  • and merge the detail into a single shot.

  • Kind of like combining 5 little sensors into one larger sensor to get more light and detail.

  • There is no zoom or wide-angle lenses anywhere though, which I think is super unfortunate.

  • There is a dual toned LED flash and a darker circle on the right side that is a time-of-flight

  • camera used for depth mapping and changing the focus of your image after the fact.

  • I mean, it’s definitely cool.

  • Just personally, I think I would rather have a phone that can capture different perspectives.

  • I like having a wide-angle and zoom instead of just tons of lenses that only add detail.

  • One good thing about the detail that the camera captured though is that it can be seen from

  • the screen.

  • The Nokia 9 PureView has a resolution higher than most smartphones.

  • 1440 x 2880 with 538 pixels per inch.

  • This is 80 more pixels per inch than the iPhone 10s.

  • So not only does it take super detailed pictures, but you can also see that detail on the OLED

  • screenwhich lasted about 30 seconds under the heat from my flame.

  • Even though it did leave a little white burn mark on the display, it’s pretty minor and

  • the screen mostly recovered.

  • The Nokia 9, like most other modern flagships, is equipped with an under-screen fingerprint

  • scanner.

  • Normally I don’t have any complaints about that.

  • But this time around, even though the scanner was unscratched and undamaged, it required

  • an unrealistic amount of pressure to get working.

  • And after some level 7 deeper grooves, the Nokia 9 continued its plea to go harder, which

  • is different.

  • To each their own, but for a fingerprint scanner, regardless of damage, it doesn’t seem to

  • work all that well.

  • Even if this was the coolest phone in the world, it wouldn’t be worth very much if

  • it wasn’t durable.

  • Nokia has never failed one of my durability tests.

  • In fact, Nokia’s are some of the most durable phones I’ve ever tested.

  • The first bend from the back gives us a few creaks and a subtle flex, but no damage yet.

  • Flipping the phone over and bending again starts to show the back panel lifting off

  • every so slightly, compromising that ip67 water resistance ratingeven if just a tiny

  • bit.

  • But the important thing is that the glass on both sides of the phone is still intact,

  • uncracked, and the phone is still alive.

  • This impressive Nokia 9 PureView smartphone with 6 cameras on the back passes my durability

  • test.

  • It’s definitely a unique looking, eye-catching phone.

  • With so many cameras on the back, it’s kind of like a googly-eyed monster watching you.

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