Nokia 1 Plus review: A 2019 Android Go phone designed for the absolute entry tier.
Android Go in clean Nokia trim.
Nokia 1 Plus was HMD's entry Android Go phone — built for the truly first-time-smartphone tier with optimised Go-edition apps on Android One. A small but earnest budget pick.
01Display
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker display results among budget phones of 2019 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
42/10042/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2019 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
32/10032/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2019 — 16 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker battery results among budget phones of 2019 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
52/10052/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2019 — 11 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
06Value
56/10056/100 trails the 60-point cohort average for budget phones of 2019.
- Android Go optimised for 1 GB RAM.
- 18:9 ratio display.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Clean Android One.
- 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage.
- Low-res FWVGA+.
- Slow MediaTek chip.
- Mono speaker.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 9-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .