The year 2019 is coming to end and the smartphone technology has improved vastly this year. Along with the in-display fingerprint sensor and different types of display design, another major thing that became mainstream was Night Mode.
Although Night Mode feature for low-light photography was mainly limited to premium flagship smartphones, this year the smartphone manufacturers started offering the same with their mid-range devices as well.
However, HMD Global‘s Nokia 9 PureView, which comes with a penta-camera setup on the back panel, and touted as the company’s flagship smartphone with impressive camera performance, doesn’t feature Night Mode.
Explaining the reason behind the lack of Night Mode on the Nokia 9 PureView smartphone, HMD’s Chief Product Officer Juho Sarvikas said that since the company is using Light technology, it is very difficult for the company to make changes in the phone’s camera.
He explained that due to the camera subsystem design, they cannot leverage “low light algorithm” on top of Light technology’s fusion algorithm that the system already has. He advised that in other lighting conditions, if the user gets .jpeg result they don’t like, then keep .dng (RAW) capture and revisit the same in Lightroom.
Hi dOrso, due to the camera subsystem design, we can not leverage "low light algorithm" on top of the fusion of that the system already does. In other lighting conditions, if you get a .jpeg result you don't like, keep .dng (raw) capture on and revisit it in Lightroom.
— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) December 17, 2019
As for the specifications, the phone features a 5.99-inch OLED display that carries support for 2880 x 1440 pixels Quad HD+ screen resolution and comes with 18:9 aspect ratio, HDR10, and always-on display.
The display of the phone is shielded by Gorilla Glass 5. This is also the first Nokia smartphone that comes with an optical in-display fingerprint sensor. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, coupled with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage.
The rear shell of has dual-LED flash enabled Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor. The Penta-lens setup of the phone includes two 12-megapixel RGB sensors and three monochrome 12-megapixel sensors.
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All the five camera sensors of the Nokia 9 PureView (Details) can function simultaneously to capture a single image of 50-megapixel powered a dedicated image co-processor. With the help of the ToF sensor, the phone can capture a depth map with up to 1200 layers of depth data for up to 40 meters away from the camera.
On the front side, there’s a 20-megapixel camera with f/1.8 aperture with Tetracell pixel binning technology that can merge four pixels into one for brighter images in low-light conditions. The front camera also carries support for AI Face Unlock.
The smartphone offers pure Android experience of latest Android 9 Pie OS. Like other Android One phones, the Nokia 9 will be treated with OS updates for two years and security patches for three years.
It comes certified with IP67 ratings, making it a water-resistant and dustproof device. Further, the phone is powered by a 3,320mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 as well as 10W wireless charging support.
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