Nokia 5.3 Unboxing and Review

hey guys it’s eric here and this is my
nokia 5.3 unboxing and review
i have been using it for about two weeks
now first off
let’s see what we have in the box when
you slide this out you have your device
wrapped in plastic
let’s take out the sticker on the front
this is the charcoal black color it also
comes in cyan
and sand you have an envelope that
houses the sim ejection tool
a transparent tpu case let’s see how
well it fits
we have some manuals products and safety
get started guide you can see all the 4g
lte bands that it supports here
including glow 4g band 28 which is the
norm for nokia anyway
there’s also nfc support in a separate
compartment you have a standard 10 watt
charger
a usb type-c cable and a pair of
earphones
for everyone buying in this store you’ll
get this double 07 kevlar case as a gift
because nokia partnered with the
upcoming james bond
movie now this is an ammo case that
means it protects the front glass with
that extra bit of resivity
you get texture on the sides but the
back is smooth i

personally would not
use this case because the corners are
sharp and
feel like they are poking my hand it
also adds too much bulk for me
it was probably made for construction
workers or people who are cursed with
shattered screens
on the front you have a 6.55 inch hd
plus ips lcd display
with 20 by 9 aspect ratio on top of that
display you have a teardrop notch that
houses an 8 megapixel camera
on the back you have a 13 megapixel quad
camera set up with flash
you also get a fingerprint sensor and
some nokia branding
on the left you have a dedicated google
assistant button and a three in one tray
that holds two 4g lte nano sims
and an sd card on the right you have
your volume rocker and a power button
that lights up when you get a
notification similar to what we had on
the nokia 7.2
on the top you have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack and a microphone
on the bottom you have a second
microphone a usb type-c
port and a speaker the nokia 5.3 is
designed is unique for that circular
camera layout with a flash in the middle
hmd global choosing not to jump on the
classic 2020 bandwagon pays off
sometimes because
there are some people who hate buying
what’s common and whether or not you
slap a case on this guy
it’s easy to tell it apart from other
phones the camera bump doesn’t stick out
so much
for an average sized phone it’s neither
heavy nor light
the back and frame are made from plastic
the charcoal color does appear like
matte black because
there are near visible diagonal lines on
there it needs trick to keep
fingerprints hidden but it doesn’t feel
the same
as the composite material or actual
matte black finish on the nokia 7.2
on the front the bezels are looking a
little thick all around with a chain big
enough to fit that nokia branding on
there
not sure why nokia insists on doing that
moving on the screen is bright outdoors
with great viewing angles
gorilla glass 3 protection colors look
vibrant and contrasty but it’s only a hd
display so youtube videos are capped at
720p
yes the display is a con but it’s not a
deal breaker for this budget phone
this phone is quite long it is not ideal
for one-handed use
this unit comes with 64 gigs of storage
and 6 gigs of ram
you get about 48 gigs of available
storage we are running on android 10 and
it is stock android so there’s no
bloatware and no such thing as ads on
here
no screen record feature by default but
there are many third-party apps for that
on play store
you get two years of software updates
we’re definitely getting android s or 12
pushed to this
phone we get dark mode which is cool
there is no option to hide the notch
here and for me it’s good readers to bad
rubbish
the gesture navigation is set as the
default and i have gotten a hang of it
but i’m still a lot faster with the
traditional navigation buttons which is
an option
on the lock screen you get some cute
animations never noticed this before
that google assistant button can be
disabled but cannot be reconfigured to
some other function
honestly i don’t care for it because i
press it accidentally a lot
the nokia 5.3 uses the snapdragon 665
octa-core cpu clocked at 2.0 gigahertz
and i am pretty accustomed to this
chipset from my time with the xiaomi a3
and recently the oppo a92
you should definitely check out my
review of them i’ll be leaving links
above
this isn’t one of the latest super fast
overpowered mid-range chips or a gaming
chip but
it is one of those above average speed
low heat running
good battery efficiency mid-range
chipsets in terms of performance on
paper the snapdragon 665
is better than the 660 but in real life
it feels about the same as the nokia 7.2
which in turn felt smoother than the
redmi note 7 which runs on the same 660
cpu
this is all probably because android one
phones just run a little bit smoother
than phones with customized ui
this means it will handle your everyday
apps and i got an overall satisfactory
long-term use
the ram management is excellent the
fingerprint sensor doesn’t do well with
locking and unlocking in quick
succession and the animation is quite
sluggish so it feels like you’re waiting
an extra second for it to unlock
but it is pretty accurate almost all the
time you may need an update to fix the
other part though
as for the less secure face unlock it is
slow even in good lighting
slower with indoor lighting and it
doesn’t work in pitch darkness so maybe
don’t bother setting this one up
here’s how the speaker compares side by
side the xiaomi a3
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when it comes to gaming as usual i play
pop g on balance graphics and medium
frame rates the highest pop g setting
for this phone
while it seems to be going smoothly on
my end you kind of see how the enemies
are taking me out before i even get a
chance
now maybe i’m bad at this game or maybe
my connection is bad or just maybe these
guys are using gaming phones with much
faster gpus
it fares better with call of duty than
it does with pubg and you can play these
games for long periods of time without
burning your hands
the nokia 5.3 is powered by 4 000
milliamp hour battery and i put it
through my usual battery tests
about 5 hours of pubg and a whole lot of
time on social
media all on wi-fi this gave me over 11
hours of screen on time which is really
impressive
if you didn’t know this already nokia
has one of the best battery
optimizations in place
no cap this phone standby is over the
top mind-blowingly awesome
the average person will probably push
two days out of this guy and it will do
10 hours of gaming
non-stop and that’s what you get when
the phone doesn’t hit up excessively no
matter what you do on it
it took me 2 hours and 25 minutes for a
full charge it does not support fast
charging the nokia 5.3 camera comes
packed with a ton of features
nokia is fond of being super generous
even with mid-range phones but you find
that some of these features are quite
gimmicky
for example the primary camera shoots 4k
videos but doesn’t even have image
stabilization at 1080p
and the video quality is below average
the front-facing camera footage is
oversaturated which may actually go
through the youtube processing and turn
out looking pretty good or
let me know what you think
so this is the front-facing camera of
the nokia 5.3
and here’s what the audio sounds like as
for photography
using it outdoors we get well saturated
high dynamic range but
all that sharpness is lost with images
captured on the wide-angle lens which is
to be expected
using a human subject if you look around
my hair up close you see that the
details
aren’t all there but it will still look
good on social media
using portrait mode you have an
oversaturated output but the depth
sensing is amazing
the selfie camera is actually not bad
outdoors i like the skin tones
as for the selfie portrait mode the
depth sensing isn’t as good as what you
get from the primary camera but it is
consistent in terms of saturation levels
now this is one phone that absolutely
needs gcam to flourish
especially indoors and i always spit it
against the iphone just so you know that
you can take amazing shots on your
affordable phone as long as it supports
g-cam
if you take a lot of photos indoors
g-cam would rock your world
but if you’re the type of person who
doesn’t like to see every single pore on
your skin
all that roughness or signs of aging you
may actually prefer the default camera
outdoors and
that applies to both the primary and
selfie camera
now jacom can do a whole lot depending
on the hardware it’s working with
like with the selfie camera we see a
clean clear difference between the
default camera and gcam
but switching to the back camera while
we still see the difference there’s only
so much jcamp can do with the hardware
and the lighting in the room
the night mode on this phone makes a
small difference you can see a little
more details with night mode on but i
don’t think any of these photos are
usable
with jcam and i didn’t even use night
mode with gcam you can see a lot of
details
now this is a picture you can actually
share it’s hard to believe the same
phone shots both of these
every once in a while nokia releases a
budget phone with mid-range specs at an
affordable price and the nokia 5.3 is
exactly that
nokia isn’t trying to win any spec to
price ratio awards here because you get
more affordable phones with better specs
from other brands like xiaomi and real
me
however there aren’t many android one
options from them and there’s that whole
tragic me a3 situation where the
multiple problematic updates and
backlash caused
xiaomi to pull out from the android one
program when it comes to software
updates
after google pixel nokia is the next
best thing period
i would recommend this phone to people
who don’t care for custom uis or ads and
people who use their phones for years
otherwise i don’t think any of nokia’s
key selling points apply to you
i urge you to check out my other phone
reviews nokia 5.3 is priced at 79
000 naira which converts to 170 us
dollars and
you can pick yours up on jr using my
athlete link in the description
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