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If anyone ever was a champion of Nokia flagship phones, it was yours truly. I cycled through them. Nokia 9210 COmmunicator . Nokia 9500 Communicator . Nokia E90 Communicator . Nokia N8 . Nokia E7 . Nokia 808 PureView . Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView . Lumia 1520 . Lumia 950 .
I was a fan of Nokia flagships. What was not to love about them? They had the best camera phones in the business, and I always want to have the best camera phones.
Some people are crazy about apps. I couldn’t give a chicken leg about them. Give me a phone with email, a capable web browser, good battery life, and a great camera, and I am good.
Nokia E90 (left) beside its predecessor, the Nokia 9500
I’d take a few more apps, if they are available, but I can live without them.
The Lumia 950 and 950 XL were the last Nokia flagship phones before the old Nokia Mobile went away and before the resurrection of Nokia Mobile through HMD Global.
This new Nokia was in bed with Android OS, which is great. Now that Windows 10 Mobile was gone, we could all get access to the apps we love on Android, plus the Nokia legacy that we had grown up with.
But it wasn’t to be. First HMD Global took ages to give us the first Android Nokia flagship phone, Nokia 9 PureView . Oh, it was an endless cycle of rumours and leaks that spanned years before the phone finally arrived.
Nokia 9 PureView is a February 2019 Nokia flagship phone
To make matters worse, it arrived with a camera that didn’t bang the way we all hoped it would. As I have pointed out before now, it is a great camera, but it’s greatness is not the kind that consumers drool over. The Nokia 9 PureView camera is better suited to professionals and people who love to tinker with settings.
How did HMD Global not get that memo? Who wants to tinker these days? Point; snap; upload. That’s how people roll now. And so it was that the Nokia 9 PureView has gone largely ignored by mainstream smartphone users.
It has been almost two years since the Nokia 9 PureView arrived, and the successor isn’t here yet. Another endless wait.
Rumours of an upcoming Nokia 10 PureView have started making the rounds. I doubt that the phone will arrive before the 2nd half of 2021.
The thing is, seeing the rumours have brought no excitement to me. I am not waiting anymore. The anticipation towards a Nokia flagship phone is gone.
To be sure, I have stopped being excited about flagship phones in general. Today’s flagships are overpriced and packed full of features that I mostly never use. It will take a shift in the dynamics of the market for me to get excited about premium flagships like I used to be.
For example, I love the concept behind the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip , but there is no excitement about it. Foldable devices are intriguing. Yet, none of them have me drooling.
I believe that I have been spoilt. I have been spoilt by a mid-range smartphone that has a flagship grade camera, great performance, great battery life, and costs one fifth of current premium flagships.
This is what happened: I got my hands on Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro and it does such a fantastic job of keeping me satisfied that it is difficult to drool over the over-expensive toys in the market.
But beyond my general disinterest in flagship phones these days, HMD Global just isn’t getting it right with Nokia flagship phones.
For one, the endless delays have pushed people into moving on to other brands. Secondly, the flagship PureView cameras just do not live up to expectations any more. If you are going to make people wait, make it be for a worthwhile product.
Nokia flagship phones have lost the spice and bang that they used to have. The Nokia brand is doing well at the entry-level and mid-range markets. But flagships? Nah. I’d be gobsmacked to find any significant number of people who are earnestly looking forward to buying one in 2020. And if people have to wait till 2021 for the successor to the Nokia 9 PureView, the brand might just as well abandon the high-end market.
Author:Mister Mobility
Digital Skills and Communication Coach | Mobile Phone Connoisseur since 2001 | Tech Blogging since 2004
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Meeysoo P45 Pro is listed on a handful of (mostly obscure) online stores, with conflicting specs, features and prices. Is it an authentic phone and should you order one?
Every now and then, a new phone brand shows up. This is normal and expected. It is also not uncommon to see conflicting specs and features from one website to another. This usually happens when the manufacturer hides the full specifications of the cell phone, leaving leaked and rumoured specs to carry the day.
But what sets off an alarm in our heads is a new smartphone, manufactured by an unknown brand, touting outrageous specs at ridiculously low prices. Meeysoo P45 Pro is such a phone. Until today, we had never heard of the Meeysoo brand. It is totally unknown.
That is fair enough. As already mentioned, new smartphone brands pop up every other week. When that happenes, we sniff around to find out as much of it as possible. We also take a critical look at the specifications of their first set of phones.
In the case of Meeysoo P45 Pro, we found lots of things that do not make sense. Let’s walk you through.
The phone is listed on quite a number of websites and online stores. On Joom, it is listed for $72. Budget phone, yay! Until we began to look at the specs. That same site that has it listed for $72 says it is a 5G smartphone using Mediatek’s Dimensity 1000 chip. Whoah! That must be a heck of a subsidy.
Joom further lists the Meeysoo P45 Pro as having a 6.3-inch curved display with 8GB RAM and 256GB internal memory. An online store, Shopee, says it is a 4G phone with a 6.6-inch display, 8GB RAM, 512GB storage and a “20MP and above” rear camera. A further drill down on Shoppe shows another set of conflicting specs listed further down the page. One of the conflicting specs is that the display is listed again but as 5.5 inches this time.
On Jumia, Meeysoo P45 Pro has a 6.6 inch display, 12GB RAM, 512GB internal memory, 16MP rear quad camera, and Android 10 operating system. The processor is listed as MTK6889 mobile platform, which is the high-end Dimensity 1000 chip.
A different Jumia listing has the entry-level Mediatek MTK6580 specified, along with 1GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, 6.6-inch, 3200×1440 pixel display, and 3D glass plated back cover, and it carries a price tag of ₦25,000. That is mindboggling.
At this point, if you aren’t as confused about this mysterious phone as we awere, you are a hero and deserve a medal. But once we saw the ridiculously low prices for the conflicting, and mostly outrageous, specs, our red flags were up. Something was definitely amiss, we concluded.
It is listed on quite a number of websites, and all of them had varying levels of conflicting information about it. It is difficult to believe that the Meeysoo P45 Pro is an authatic smartphone. You cannot even be sure of what you are getting should you order it.
We ran searches to find an official website for Meeysoo and found nothing. All the listsings on Jumia are to be “shipped from abroad”, so it isn’t even possible to walk into a store to see and handle one in person so we can verify its authetic specifications and features.
Is Meeysoo P45 Pro fake? It is difficult to say at this time. But even if it exists, it is being so badly marketed that there is conflicting information about it everywhere. Our recommendation: stay away from it; stay away from Meeysoo phones till infprmation about it is verified.
