SpecEagle review · Nokia

Nokia 9 PureView review: Five-camera computational photography moonshot.

SpecEagle Editorial·Mar 2019·$699
Overall
65/100
Class rank
#2 of 3
Tier
Flagship
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The verdict, up front

Computational moonshot.

Nokia 9 PureView strapped five Zeiss sensors to a single 5.99" body and merged 12 frames into a single 12-bit DNG. The ambition outran the silicon — processing each frame took 10 seconds — but it set the stage for today's computational photography.

01Display

82/100

82/100 trails the 84-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.

TypeP-OLED HDR10
Size5.99 inches
Resolution1440 x 2880 px

02Camera

70/100

70/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2019 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

Setup5x 12 MP Zeiss sensors — 3 mono + 2 RGB
ToFYes, depth sensor
Selfie20 MP
WorkflowDNG/RAW 12-shot computational merge

03Performance

78/100

78/100 trails the 81-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.

ChipsetSnapdragon 845 (10nm)
GPUAdreno 630

04Battery

64/100

64/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2019 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

Capacity3320 mAh
Charging18W wired + 10W wireless

05Build

76/100

76/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.

What works
  • Genuine RAW DNG with deep dynamic range
  • P-OLED QHD HDR display
  • Premium build with IP67
What doesn't
  • Shot processing painfully slow (~10 seconds)
  • Mediocre low-light despite five sensors
  • In-display fingerprint unreliable on launch firmware
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$1099 · score 90/100

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 3-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .