Nokia 5 UK-SIM Free Smartphone - Copper

It's good to see Nokia back.This is a superb phone for the money. It's beautifully built from fine materials, works very fast and has a bright screen, with excellent contrast. It also looks so good that you'll be proud to be seen with it. The main camera is a beaut.Having ancient history with both Nokia and Samsung, I thought it was this or the Samsung J5. At about £30 less than the J5 and from other reviews, I think this is better value.For me, mid-range phones have always hit the sweet spot between the strengths of the flagships and the economy of the budget handsets. Back in the mists of time, I chose the Nokia 6300 for that reason and wasn't disappointed then, either.Thoroughly recommended. Welcome back, Nokia!

Bought this to replace my Chinese Doogee, which served me well for 3-4 years but was short of memory for modern apps. Didn’t want to go down the Chinese route as they all seem to come with pre-installed malware these days, so paid a bit extra for the Nokia 5. Wow! I can’t fault this phone, camera is great, screen is great, GPS is great, will take an SD card up to 256GB. We have a weak signal where I live but the Nokia will usually pickup enough to send/receive text messages whereas my old Doogee and wife’s Lenovo would not. Another benefit is the clean android install, no bloatware, no malware. Within a fortnight I bought one for my wife, who’s a far more intensive phone user than I am, she loves hers too. If you’re after a sim free phone, this would be a good value at £200 but at £130-£150 it’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s sale of the flippin’ century!

When considering this device is only £125 new, you're getting a decent phone for the money. The screen, although 720p, is very bright and clear (600 lumens at brightest). The speaker is very good, I like listening to podcasts and this has a good rounded sound.Battery life seems pretty good, I can easily get to the end of the a day only having used a third of the battery.The build quality is great. A solid device with metal body, feels very good in hand.Throw in it's pretty much stock Android, at this point running 8.1 with the July security patch (this was midway through July too) then it's quite impressive.In the end for me though (looking for a backup phone) it got too laggy. After I installed all my apps and used it for a few days, there was very noticable lag. I would perhaps have to wait 7 or 8 seconds for some apps to open. A reboot often sped things up again though.

I had this for around 3 years and it was great. It did occasionally crash, it really didn't have much memory & storage but it worked fine and took lovely pictures. It survived many drops and being out in rain & snow.

So, about a year after buying this phone, I have been forced to have to replace it. Long story cut short, basically there is something wrong with the charger port or the battery and it will no longer charge reliably. Having researched the issue, this is apparently a commonly know issue, and boils down to a design flaw related to the curved edge of the phone, meaning the charger can't sit in flat and engage properly.That's more than a bit disappointing as far as I'm concerned. I've always been more than a bit of a Nokia fan, I've owned several of there phones over the years. I was disappointed when the whole Windows phone thing didn't work out for them, I really loved my Lumia Windows phone, but essentially lack of app support meant I ended up having no choice but to switch to an android phone, which was one of the first gen Moto G phones. I'm a budget phone user, so a £600 high-end phone is just not something I can afford, so my options are somewhat limited, but I do want something fairly nice for the price I am willing to pay. I always liked my Moto G, but it very much felt a bit lacking in style for me, in a way that Nokia phones don't lack, so imagine my joy at seeing that Nokia had somehow managed to come back with what looked like a decent and stylish android phone at a price point I could afford......and when I first got hold of this phone, I was not disappointed. It is a good phone in many ways, the look and feel of it, the streamlined clutter free version of android it uses. It's very personalise-able. You could go on about it lacking certain premium features, or not having enough RAM, or being a bit glitchy, or whatever, but essentially it's good software that makes a good phone experience and Nokia did this well with these phones. It is indeed a very stylish and sleek phone too, it's the kind of phone you take out and people want to look at it and compliment it. So, I mean, I didn't really want to have to replace this phone, or have to write a bad review for it here on Amazon, but I'm afraid I have to really. As I said earlier, I'm a budget user, so the £150 I spent on this a year ago, to end up with a phone that is unusable after a year, as much as I might want to like Nokia, it is just unacceptable. A phone should really last me longer than that before I have to spend more money on a new phone, atleast two years in my opinion, preferable three.End of the story, now I'm back with a Motorola phone, the Moto G7 Power to be exact... It's a shame... I would prefer to be owning a Nokia phone, but as much as I might like the Nokia look and style, I can just no longer trust them as being a reliable brand.