Nokia 6

PURE ANDROID REINVENTED.

APART FROM ITS rather stylish design, with its smooth back, satisfyingly sharp edges and metal unibody, the Nokia 6 offers a standard Android phone experience. Logo and boot-up screen aside, you’d be hard-pressed to know from use that this is indeed a Nokia phone, with it running an almost completely stock version of Android 7.0 Nougat and avoiding any bells or whistles in the process. This stripped-down approach to the OS leaves the Nokia 6 feeling serviceable. On the upside, Nokia has promised that new updates will be pushed through as soon as possible, and that’s tempting. Fire the camera up and the Nokia 6 uses autofocus to take some reasonably good pics. We were also impressed by the sharpness, colour reproduction and clarity of its 5.5-inch 1080p display, and the front-facing fingerprint sensor is fast and reliable. At a dollar under $400, though, we’d be looking pretty hard at the Motorola range, and it’s up to you if you want the square metal unibody here, or are happy with the shape of the G5s.