Nokia is back in the smartphone market with some amazing phones. Nokia 3 is one of them. Nokia 3 is the most affordable smartphone by Nokia (Yeah, Nokia 3310 is not a smartphone). It is a beautiful looking phone at an affordable price tag. Nokia has not released a flagship device yet. It may be waiting to see how well do its phones perform in a budget range category.
Nokia has paid a lot of attention to the design of this phone. The phone looks amazingly good for a budget phone. When you hold the phone in your hand, you cannot tell that it is a cheap phone. The back cover of the phone is plastic but it still looks good. The Nokia 3 carries the legacy of its Windows Phone design and you can easily tell that by just looking at the phone. The phone has rounded sides which make it feel even thinner than it already is. However, there are some drawbacks in the design as well. The phone does not have a notification light and the capacitive touch buttons at the bottom of the screen also lack a backlight. Which makes the phone harder to use in the dark. Moreover, there is no fingerprint scanner on this device and it feels unusual to have a phone without a fingerprint scanner in 2017.
The Nokia 3 comes with an 8 MP, f/2.0 camera which is not a great camera. The phone takes good photos in the bright day light but it struggles in the low light conditions. The front camera is also 8 MP, f/2.0 and it also struggles to capture a good photo. Another major drawback is that this phone can only record and play 720p videos.
If you want a better camera phone in this price range, you can go for Infinix S2 or the Xiaomi Redmi 4X.
Honestly, the Nokia 3 sucks in the performance department as well. It comes with a MediaTek MT6737 chipset with Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU and Mali-T720MP1 GPU. It comes with just 2GB of RAM. The phone lags even on basic tasks. Like it starts to hang during the Facebook browsing. And the phone literally hangs when you open more than 4 or 5 apps at once.
Gaming performance is also miserable. It barely runs heavy games like the Mortal Kombat X and Asphalt Xtreme.
Device Type | Smartphone |
Model | Nokia 3 |
Announced | 01 February, 2017 |
Released | 01 June, 2017 |
Status | Available |
Price | 15,744 PKR |
Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. | Bar |
Dimensions | 143.4 x 71.4 x 8.5 mm |
Protection |
Corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version) |
Colors |
Silver White, Matte Black, Tempered Blue, Copper White |
2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM1 & SIM2 |
3G Network |
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
4G Network |
LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300) |
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. | Standard SIM |
Dual SIM | Yes, Dual SIM |
Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen |
Size | 5.0 inches |
Resolution | 720 x 1280 pixels |
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others. | 16M colors |
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality. | ~294 ppi pixel density |
Touch Screen | Yes, Multitouch |
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind. | Corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version) |
Features | Multitouch |
Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. | 8 MP, f/2.0 |
Video | Yes |
Camera Features |
1.12 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus |
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration) | LED flash |
Secondary | 8 MP, f/2.0 |
Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Android 7.0 (Nougat) |
Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. | Mediatek MT6737 |
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. | Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 |
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Mali-T720MP2 |
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. | 2 GB |
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. | 16 GB |
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. | microSD, up to 256 GB |
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. |
Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | v4.2 with A2DP |
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. | Yes + A-GPS support |
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. | |
USB Ports | microUSB 2.0, USB On-The-Go |
Card Reader | |
Headphone Jack | |
Microphone Jack |
GPRS GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM), Generally, GPRS is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. | |
EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. |
Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) |
Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 2650 mAh battery |
Placement | Non-removable |