Nokia X10 6.67 Inch Android UK SIM Free Smartphone with 5G Connectivity - 6 GB RAM and 64 GB Storage (Dual SIM) - Forest Green

UPDATE: December 2024. Still running fine from September 2024, update to ANDROID 14 - 3.18GB. "OFF switch" is now located at the bottom of the screen, next to the Settings wheel, NOT pressing & holding the "ON" button. No phone issues or problems. Nokia X10, WHITE, 6.67" & 5G Model. White rear Cover & factory fitted Screen Protector(100% Compostible.) Light for size and battery. Sold and delivered by Amazon, undamaged, new, with box sealed, and 11 days early! *UPDATE: April2024. February & March security updates installed. No quality, or performance issues. * March 2023: Latest OS(operating system) update, Android 13, included the addition of a "Personal Safety" app, which provides a short cut to contact Emergency Services, and a "Car Crash Detector" which will contact them for you. So it is no longer just iPhone devices that have this facility. Latest Security Patch installed, too. *Also, for those that criticise Nokia, I recently read on Reuters news that Huawei have announced that they will continue to licence technology from Nokia; an agreement which started in 2017. Nokia confirmed the arrangement. *I was also permitted to uninstall Google 1, which I have never used; the only Google apps I actively use are Gmail, which I regularly clean the cache from. *UPDATE: DECEMBER 2022. I recently UPDATED to ANDROID 13, using some of my SIM/monthly pre-payment GB quota; wi-fi was not necessary, and worked fast enough for me. Phone works well, with no issues or disappointments; also pleasing that very little amount of Cache to clean. *A replacement for my Android 11 updated Xiaomi Redmi 9 3/32GB(see my review.) My Xiaomi Note 9T(see my review) has stopped duplicate notifications, and has accepted I am not updating to Android 11. Having decided never to buy a 100% Chinese smartphone again, due to privacy, and increasing permissions issues, and loss of functions; as well as owner and press reviews. This narrowed the choices considerably, but resistance was not futile! I wanted 5G back-up, again, due to my reading that 6G is well along in phone research and development, and planning. Also, Research found upper entry level 5G phones have a lower spec, in order to offer 5G, with the accusation that some are only 5G to boost sales, due to the huge investment in 5G networks. I came so close to buying Motorola, as, though owned by Lenovo, the brand reputation has not really suffered. Indeed, they have many happy owners, some on their third or fourth handset. But concerns over receiving even one update, ongoing over abundance of models, and the expert opinion that Motorola have never, since, matched the quality of the original 2013 Moto G, made me "pass them by". *Next Samsung had to be researched, though I resent paying a premium for the brand. Though soon to be overtaken by the dreaded Xiaomi, for sale of smartphone sets, Samsung had to be considered for upper entry level price, camera, & reviews. Struggling to find a 5G, with a good camera (not a right) and spec, the "shock horror" moment came when I stumbled across a former happy owner of one new Samsung model, who, with his first update, discovered his phone performance had been slowed, and camera quality reduced. (Didn't iPhone once try a similar strategy, to motivate owners to trade up? Didn't it end badly, for them?) Samsung seem to have gotten over their perception that some models were underpriced, and that owners took unfair advantage of them, as, surprisingly, the A53 5G has been professionally reviewed as over priced, and with lesser performance than the earlier A52s, and by design, such as moving from a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset to Samsung's own Exynos 1280 chipset = an overall downgrade. I cannot emphasize this enough, check professional technical, and owner, reviews; as well as provider ratings (Amazon UK Logistics were recently rated as number, by Which? magazine, as No 1 for punctuality reliability, and services) before sinking your money into what is an expensive purchase, even at upper entry level. *So my journey carried on, but not for long, when I found the mid-level Nokia X10 5G, at a very competitively Amazon Black Friday discounted price - compared to the release, and then, later, - reduced prices. Our 2016 Microsoft 640 XL still has better telephone call quality than the Xiaomi, ok battery, Zeiss camera, SMS messaging & navigation working, although the rear speaker is now complaining at high volume, at age 6!. I was pleased to read the X10 specs, including Zeiss optics, and owner reviews for the X10. On top of that, a great price! I do not use Fingerprint, or Face, recognition security, so cannot comment on it, apart from not liking it - maybe because I have got used to not worrying about my 4 fingers and a thumb remaining on each hand! X10 came with seemingly better quality factory fitted screen protector a soft 100% compostible separate "oat meal effect" surface eco rear protector; with black USB C cable. I think the build quality is solid, and it looks stylish. TDM confirmed it accepts 18 watts fast charge, which is fine for me, as I a have an Amazon supplied MAGI-X-Charger, which has good owner reviews. Having recently read that smartphone batteries last longer if they are charged from 40% up to 80%, as required - avoiding going under 20%, and up to100% charge, I have adopted this method. Fully charging a battery takes longer, and did not lengthen the performance, or life, of 2 previous dead non-supplied by Amazon smartphones (including a 2018 ASUS ZENFONE 4 520 - died 3 months before end of warranty; supposedly new battery and OS didn't stop it dying a second time, 3 months after warranty expired.) So 40%-80% takes around 40 minutes with my 18watts charger, which is not inconvenient for me. As expected, for we are still using the Microsoft 640XL for national & international calls, the Telephone call quality of the X10, and Zeiss camera, is superior to the Android 10 only Redmi9T (will not update to Android 11; I am still refusing permissions to access all data, tracking, & monitoring, and, keeping the front camera covered with a cut to size sticker); and previous Redmi9 - both infuriating the Mrs, and her having to use mobile earbuds. The apps tray is accessible from sliding the screen upwards (not having to go to "Settings", "Apps", then "Manage Apps") and has no Apps Bloating, so no need for me to delete 25+ pre-installed apps I deleted to free up more RAM on the Xiaomis! Easy to set up, by touching the "Configuration" message, then "Install"! Commence slide just above the bottom black bar, where you see "Nokia", to return to front screen. A Black Friday genuine Amazon bargain! Conclusion: a welcome return to Nokia for quality and specs; lack of "Bloatware", tracking, monitoring, data demanding permissions; or mischievous system updates, such as Location having to be switched on to use the camera (our Xiaomi Redmi 10 PRO, which lasted 10 months as a home based backup. - See my Review). This Nokia X10 is high quality, and highly recommended!

It is a phone ;-) Yeah, it does stuff like Android Pay in my local supermarket.- The only bad feature is the stupid "Assistant" button on the left side. Given the balance of the phone in my hand, I kept nudging it by accident. The included "half-case" makes this even worse. I resorted to cutting a slot out of the left side of the "half-case". Much better now.- No charger in box - you get a "half case" made of some white rubbery stuff with what looks like wood chips in it.- Comes with a screen protector pre-installed.- Camera is all right for wideview shots, but rather limited past about 4x zoom. Either stand closer to the subject, or buy a proper small camera (we have a Panasonic pocket camera with a 20x optical zoom which will beat ANY smartphone hands down on stuff like moon photos and pictures of birds and aeroplanes in flight - BUT it is fatter and heavier than a smartphone, and you cannot talk to people with it!)- Battery life is modest if one leaves all the "connections" on (Location, wifi, phone signal, bluetooth, NFC) - but a LOT of modern phones are like that. In bright light, one needs to whack up the screen brightness, too ... which uses even more battery. It is just a trade off - power/features vs battery life vs size/thickness. My late 1990's Nokia would do about 1 day when new, and I bought a "fat" battery (that stuck out the back) to get 1 1/2 days. How times have changed! My Nokia X10 lasts longer than that. (Of course, if one is actively using it all day, battery life is a LOT shorter - that was true 25 years ago, and it is true now!)- Summary - nowhere near as good as the "flagship" models from Apple, Samsung, etc., BUT it costs a LOT less. A LOT less. You pays your money and takes your choice. The Nokia X10 6GB/64GB model suits me just fine (especially after I cut a small hole in the "half-case" to stop the "Assistant" activating so much!)Update: Now mid-September 2023.Yeah, it is generally very good.In the hot weather, it seemed to have problems with my sweaty fingers on the fingerprint reader.In the time I have had it, there were a couple of OS updates - I am now on Android 13.I cannot comment on the "dual sim" feature, because I have never tried to use it.The phone does come "unlocked", though, so the SIM from my previous phone went straight in and worked with no problems at all.I was torn between buying a "mini-phone" (phones with 4 inch screens fit in the pocket better!), and a "full-size phone" (which this NOKIA X10 certainly is).Hmm. I have quite big hands, and the screen on the Nokia X10 makes watching YouTube etc on it MUCH better than a "mini-phone". [I also have a sports watch, so I do not try to run with a huge phone strapped to my arm!]So all in all, I am very pleased with my Nokia X10 = it does the stuff I want it to.Paying in the supermarket, basic photos even in poor light, WhatsApp messages, actual phone calls, etc etc. And with plenty of RAM and plenty of storage space it should last me for a while.I am hoping for 5 years from the phone - less than 3 and I will be disappointed, more than 5 and I will e even more delighted.[A previous Sony Ericsson, an X8 from 2011 worked for about 11 years, although at the end the battery life was very short and current apps no longer worked - it had Android 2.1! But it still made calls and texts, and took basic photos - I used one for a car insurance claim, where ANY camera is better than no camera!The Nokia I bought in the 1990s lasted me 8 years, a 2110 I think, and I changed that for a cheaper contract rather than there being anything wrong with the phone!So this is my second Nokia: 8 years for the first.Yeah, I have high hopes for this NOKIA, too, even though it is unlikely it will match that Sony Ericsson!]

I've always had IPhone's so my review is compared against theses phone's!All I can say is you are paying to be a sheep with iPhone!Once you get use too this phone it does everything the same,just as quick and just as good!It's plastic on the back, but really nice and solid and looks nice not cheap looking or feeling!Camera and videos for me are awesome..and the screen is amazing and large (some might find it to big but not me it's great)I can't praise this phone enough and to be honest it just goes to show that people are sucked into the apple badge!If you want everything a high end phone does at a great price then this is the phone for you!If you want to put your phone out in front of you or on the table then you need a apple and lots more money..but if you have that type of money you can buy some more IQ or brain cells..for me it's a no brainer from now on,over the moon I made the switch and tried something new!Oh and the reason I did,was that my contract had ran out and I needed a new phone but I never wanted to get tied up with a new contract or phone(my current contract is cheap yet great and can't find one like it)