When my Samsung Galaxy 6 broke, I needed something fast and didn't have $800 for a new Galaxy, so I picked up the Nokia 6.1 Now before my Galaxy I had several Nokias, back when they were making Windows Phones, including the Nokia 1020 which had an amazing camera. Since the three main things I use my phone for are messaging, calls, and camera, I assumed it would be comparable. It almost is.

With the Android One, it's definitely a clean (for some, raw) version of Android, devoid of the gloss that Samsung spreads. The apps are snappy, the OS is very responsive, and (generally speaking) the default Google apps are pretty good (except the Alarm, which refuses to?). The screen is closer to what you would expect from a PayGo phone than a flagship, which may bother some, but it's fine. It keeps and holds a signal well.

My biggest disappointment in this phone is the camera. For being a 12MP rear-facing, it takes pictures like my *old* 6MP HTC from a decade ago. I'm not sure if that's a hardware issue, a software issue, or somewhere between, but it cannot handle darkness, color saturation, or movement to save its life - very disappointing for a camera in 2018. Its much-vaunted ZEISS lens really doesn't seem to help when the camera itself can't handle what it's seeing.

All that said, unlike other reviewers I've had no issue pairing bluetooth devices, including the SYNC on my 2018 Ford. The battery life is fantastic, the speaker is plenty good for a phone its price, and the phone clarity is great. The fingerprint-reader placement took some getting used to, but within a week I found the sweet spot of picking it up with my finger in place and it feels very intuitive now (and works really well).

If camera is of prime concern, this isn't the phone for you. But then, I doubt any PayGo phone is. Otherwise, this is a great budget alternative that delivers a solid performance while staying under $200.

This review is actually for the TA-1068 (China Version). I Have to explain this one.
Mercate Group is an amazon authorized seller, and had the US version listed with Prime shipping, and $0 tax, so I clicked on it, and made my purchase.
I got Prime next day shipping, and as a TracFone customer, also purchased the BYOP SIM Card kit.
As soon as I unboxed it, I installed the SIM card I used the AT&T nano version, and a 64GB micro SD card, and fired it up.
I used my laptop to connect it to my TracFone account, and was up and running! Within minutes the phone upgraded to 8.1!
As I got to exploring the settings menu, I saw my available storage was 51.9GB. Wait, this is supposed to only have 32GB, right?That's when I saw it was the TA-1068 64GB/4GB Ram version.
I was astonished. I was getting 4g LTE, and I registered the device on Nokia's Support App. It confirmed 1 Year US Warranty.
I emailed the seller, and he claimed it was a warehouse mix-up, and offered to exchange it, but I thought, Wait a minute, I got a 64GB Nokia 6.1 with US warranty, and it is working on AT&T.I spent a week going around the Orange County, LA County, areas, and never lost signal.
Using "Network Cell Info Lite" app from google play store, I'm pulling in band 4 at 4g, and occasionally HSPA+ band 5.
Speedtest.net results are just about the same with H+ or 4g LTE.
Call quality is crystal clear, and and this phone is like it's on steroids!
I love the Copper accents, and design, but it is slippery as heck! This is corrected with the Nokia 6 2018 Silicone Case - Clear Gel Cover - Olixar FlexiShield - Slim Design and Scratch Resistant - Clear. This case really brings out the beauty of the phone, and makes it a pleasure to hold.
I took some photos & video at an evening concert, and the results are really good. I must admit, I use a camera for serious photo & video shooting, but in a pinch I won't hesitate to use this.
ANDROID ONE!!! One of the main reasons I bought this phone.
NFC!!! Another reason, no one makes a phone at this price point with NFC.
Battery life is great, I'm getting up to a day & 1/2 on a charge, and the turbo charge feature is great.
I love USB "C". I appreciate the 3.5m headphone jack, using VLC or Rocket player gives excellent audio over my Etymotic earphones. Oh, yes it also includes Bluetooth 5 with aptX!
As mentioned, Rocket Player is great for audio, I use primarily because it works beautifully with Android Auto, and gives me complete control over my SD Card mp3 files.
Fingerprint scanner on the back is a little low, but after getting used to it I appreciate the swipe gestures.
I got the August Android update on the 16th, and Android P & Q will be supported.
I guess I'm a fanboy. This is a great phone, and if you get lucky enough to get the 64Gb version, you won't regret it!

I have had this phone for about two month and use it as my daily phone. The good is the build quality. The front is Gorilla glass and rest is a metal shell. Feels cool in the hand. I love the stock Android experience from Android One. One Google Play installs all your apps, everything is smooth and fast. Little things such as traffic notification and integration with Maps and Youtube is fantastic. The camera is adequate for the things I do. I'm not a serious picture guy, so I am not going to go into it. The screen is bright enough for web browsing, but if you are used to the iPhone retina, this might be a little disappointing. The screen timeout is initially set way too soon. The fingerprint sensor works surprising well. A quick tap on the sensor wakes up the phone. Quick charge is a godsend. I brag to my iPhone friends about my cheap phone's ability to charge up half way in minutes. The USB-C port is a great choice because a lot of laptops use USB-C/Thunderbolt to charge, so I do not need a separate charger at work because my Lenovo laptop plug works fine.

Now the cons. It's a $300 phone, so I'm not going to be too harsh. The main thing is reception. I am on AT&T and this phone is the US model. My connection drops constantly. On my old iPhone, I would have reception at my phone even if it is faint. At least text messages would go through. With this phone, I would go through long periods where the text messages wouldn't go through. I get dreaded "MMS timeout". There are many areas around town and at my work place where I would need to disconnect mobile data and reconnect for phone calls to go through. Mobile data would be spotty and I have to constantly search for a wifi AP. This was never a problem with my old iPhone. Wifi-Calling doesn't seem to be working, but this might be an AT&T problem. I wish Android has their own equivalent of iMessage so we can use the internet connection to get text messages. It's 2018 afterall.

Honestly it's a great phone. I don't want to qualify that statement with a "for the money," but that's probably true too. I switched to this from a 64 gb iPhone 5. It speaks volumes about Apple's hardware quality and software updates that I'm even comparing a 2012 device to a 2018 device, to be honest, so take all this with a grain of salt. Here's my take on the Nokia 6.1 after about a month with it:

Pros:
- Battery life blows the iPhone 5 out of the water. I'll easily get two days of usage out of this thing if I forget to charge it at night.
- The bigger screen size and resolution is pretty sweet. I was a huge advocate of a "one hand phone" like good 'ol Steve Jobs described the iPhone 4 and 5 form factors, but it's really nice to be able to read a paragraph or two without scrolling. Still bummed that I have to shift to an awkward grip to hit some portions of the screen, but the compromise is worth it.
- It's way faster in apps than the iPhone 5. Imgur, Relay for Reddit, Bumble, Wikipedia, and the gif search in the messaging app--my go-tos all load so much faster.
- The finger print reader is pretty nice. I know it's a standard feature on phones today, but it's pretty high quality in my opinion. It identifies my fingerprint and unlocks the device faster than my 2017 iPad Pro 9.7.
- Build quality and durability are god damn fantastic. I don't use a case on this bad boy, and I feel completely at ease doing so. It's a beast.

Cons:
- Android doesn't support using the SD card as internal memory anymore. Maybe it's just this device, but you shouldn't expect to be able to augment app storage with the SD card. That means-with the US version anyway--you're stuck with 32 gb of storage for apps. Android OS takes up just under half on this device. That scared me at first, but after a month it's not as bad as I thought. You can tell most apps to store big data on the SD card--your photos, music, video, etc. won't eat up those precious remaining GB. After a month I haven't broken 20 gb of internal storage.
- The camera can be frustrating, especially coming from iOS. In my experience the camera software is way more important than the megapixels the hardware is capable of. I am used to pressing the shutter button in the iOS camera and taking a picture. Boom, done. In good light this phone will get close to that level of ease. In anything close to darkness this phone will take a picture up to 4-5 seconds after pressing the shutter button. To be fair, most of my friends' Android devices behave similarly, though I haven't tried a flagship Android device. If you're coming from Apple, be prepared to get frustrated with this camera.
- iMessage is way better than Android Messages. It really irks me to spend a decent amount of time capturing a good quality photo only to have it compressed all to hell by SMS or MMS protocols.This isn't really a deficiency of this phone, but it's one of the biggest things I miss from the Apple ecosystem. I mean..c'mon Google! Dedicate some server space to sending messages-don't wait for the carriers to upgrade their systems!
- The finger print reader on the back of the device is a little annoying if you are used to unlocking your device without picking it up. I work a desk job and am used to unlocking my phone with a front-button press and a pass code-I'm sure people with Apple devices that have a finger print reader will find this even more annoying.

There's probably more to say, but when it comes right down to it this phone is a better deal than what $270 would have gotten me from Apple. I was pleasantly surprised, and have recommended it to family members and friends.

Just a warning to everyone considering this phone: When I bought it in June 2018 there was a lot of confusion regarding the two models available on Amazon. If you live in the US you really need to buy the 32gb/3gb model. It sucks that HMD didn't bring the 64gb/4gb to the US, but the 64/4 model doesn't support a lot of the LTE bands that are used in the US and you'll really be hamstringing yourself. You will struggle to find LTE out in the wild.

I don't know if it's a black friday thing, but at the time of this review, the list price is now $50 cheaper, but oh well, it was still a great deal at $220.

I was in desperate need of a phone to replace my 4-5 year old Samsung Galaxy S5. While it had served me well, I couldn't make calls anymore, even though it was in immaculate condition - damned planned obsolescence.

Nokia had really grabbed my attention, as the Android One platform promised a very minimalist operating system without having to rely on custom roms. Not only that, but the build quality was widely touted to be above and beyond most manufacturers.

Well, I've had it for about a month and I absolutely love it.

It's incredibly quick and smooth. Call quality is great. The phone itself feels like a tank and it's quite striking. Android One is really bare bones, but that's what I love about it. It doesn't come loaded down with crap that you'll never use and cannot get rid of. The camera is decent - it's not remarkable in either a positive or negative manner, but it does take decent photos for my uses. Fingerprint scanner is a new feature that I kind of like. It's sort of small, but the positioning is great. I'm still getting used to it and it takes a couple attempts sometimes, but it's not terrible.

Screen is great, I just wish the auto-brightness would get real bright, as I have to manually ramp up the brightness sometimes outdoors on sunny days. Image quality is great. Bezels are a bit big, but I'm coming from an S5, so it's not something I care about. Lack of a physical home and back/menu buttons is new, but I've finally gotten used to it. It still has a headphone jack, which is great, I use my phone to play music over the PA at work, and I don't want to have to carry a dongle. USB-C is nice, it charges pretty quick, whether it be from a wall, car or computer. Battery life has been exquisite. I use my phone fairly heavily at work, both to communicate with other employees and customers, but also kill time with memes, and I work at least 10 hour shifts. If I leave the house at 07:30 with a full charge, the lowest I've seen it drop when I get home at 20:00 is 62%.

The negatives are that there are no good cases for it. They're all the same $10 Chinese POS that won't do anything to actually prevent damage. I've only broken one phone in my life and since then, I always keep my phones in the beefiest case possible; however, they're just not available. As such, I have what appeared to be the best case I could get and a screen protector. This is really worrisome, because the screen extends well past the frame.

It doesn't have the fastest CPU or an insane amount of RAM, so if you let a bunch of applications run in the background and go weeks without powering it off, it will slow down. But I've noticed it picks right back up after a restart or just clearing out some applications from the memory.

The actual speaker is plenty loud and sounds great, but the earpiece isn't that loud, though it does sound great.

Having the volume rocker on the same side as the power/lock button is odd at first, but it makes taking screenshots super easy. On that note, the buttons feels incredible to use and are exceptionally tactile.

All in all, it's an outstanding phone for the price. I understand that I went from an ancient phone to a new mid-tier phone, and I am aware of its shortcomings. It doesn't have the hardware or features of a top of the line flagship phone from Samsung or whatever, but it excels at being what it is, an exceptional, basic phone that is exceedingly well made (this thing makes iPhones feel cheap, the materials and build quality are absurd).

I look forward to purchasing a flagship Nokia phone, once they get a bit more established. This is a helluva start.