- Analysis by KJ David
Nokia's 2019 MWC flagship contender comes in the form of the Nokia 9 PureView, a 6-inch Android aiming for a seat alongside the best photography smartphones in town. Its biggest pro is an ultra-high-end (as of this specs-driven review) quintuple camera system 
that consists of two 12-megapixel RGB cameras and three 12-megapixel monochrome cams. Its five-camera setup is bedecked with the brand's signature ZEISS optics and it features things like Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) video-recording, native black-and-white photography, and post-shot refocusing. Relatively typical flagship-class imaging perks like bokeh shooting and AI-aided scene recognition are on board as well.
Despite its forenamed innovation on the imaging front, though, the 9 PureView is not without some disgruntling cons. One of them is its 128GB-only non-expandable storage 
, which sounds malnourished compared to the 256GB or 512GB native memory caps offered by a few other ambitious models that debuted during the MWC 2019. Additionally, while its wireless charging capability sounds like an appreciable high-end facet, its mere 3320mAh battery capacity does not quite hit the flagship mark -- some of the best big-battery phones pack more than 5000mAh of raw power.
Joining its mix of pros and cons is a 20-megapixel front-facing camera accompanied by a display flash function . It also touts a flagship-class 6-inch pOLED 2K-1440p display furbished with a scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 5 panel , which, by the way, houses an in-screen fingerprint sensor .
Going back under the hood, the 9 PureView runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 2.8GHz octa-core processor , which also powers some solid high-enders from competing brands. It is accompanied by a 6GB LPPDDR4X RAM , which sounds just about right, although 8GB-RAM smartphones were no longer that rare around the time of this Phonerated analysis.
This Nokia flagship's pros and cons are housed inside a Midnight Blue shell that tops it off as a feasible choice for tech-savvy mobile photography junkies.
On-paper Star rating: 
It is one of the Android world's first models to combine five camera lenses, touting five 12-megapixel ZEISS-optics cameras on its rear.
It is described as a rugged phone (more sturdy, better water-resistance, etc).
Its processor speed of 2.8GHz (top speed according to Qualcomm) spread across 8 cores is among the fastest among recent phones.
NFC is used by electronic payment systems and other uses.
We're dealing with a hefty display here, making it a phablet: 6 (actual diagonal is 5.99 inches) inches and a resolution of 2880 x 1440 pixels means about 14.39 square inches and an image quality of at least 536.31 dots per inch (DPI)!
Above-average camera resolution - of Quintuple 12-megapixel (2x RGB + 3x mono) - with these features: RAW DNG photo-shooting, HDR, Post-shot refocusing, Bokeh photos.
The 20-megapixel selfie cam offers an above-average resolution.
Our research didn't show that the Nokia 9 PureView had any slot for memory expansion.
It's disappointing that we were not able to find information about its weight.
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