Nokia 5.4 review: The low-priced phone contains many good things

Design Nokia 5.4 is simple but no less luxurious

For someone who often drops the phone in the face like me, the thing that makes me most impressed with the Nokia 5.4 is definitely the light weight, only at 181 g of the device. With this weight it will also reduce the drop damage quite a bit!

However, in exchange for this, Nokia uses plastic as the main material to process its products. But rest assured, this plastic outer shell can still protect your product from any strong impacts!

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Although made of plastic, the back of the Nokia 5.4 still exudes a luxurious look when using the glossy and beautiful glass effect. This back will certainly leave fingerprints, but with the habit of using the case regularly, like many other users, this problem must have been resolved.

On the Nokia 5.4 phone, you will have two color options: blue and purple. Nokia does not use a smooth color back for its products, but has added darker, diagonal lines, running diagonally along the phone case.

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The layout of the back of Nokia 5.4 is quite similar to  Nokia 3.4  and  Nokia 8.3 . It seems that Nokia is still pursuing a design with a circular camera cluster in the middle, different from most other smartphone manufacturers. With this design of Nokia, I myself did not feel very familiar at first.

After using it for a while, I have gotten used to it. And one thing that definitely impresses me forever in this design is: 'Referring to the round camera cluster, I will remember Nokia and when mentioning Nokia, I will remember the round camera cluster'. Surely many of you will have the same impression as me, right?

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The Nokia 5.4 screen is not excellent, but it is enough to make you fall in love

Nokia 5.4 is equipped with a screen size of 6.39 inches, big enough to serve the task of playing games, watching movies . are you here? The panel that Nokia 5.4 uses is IPS LCD with HD + resolution, giving the user experience of the display at a stable level. The biggest advantage of this type of monitor is that it gives you a bright, wide viewing angle - meaning you don't need to look directly at what's on the screen.

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Besides, I expected this IPS LCD panel to give good brightness. However, with the brightness of the Nokia 5.4 at only around 400 nits, you can hardly see what is displayed on the screen in bright sunny environments. In general, at a price of less than 5 million dong, choosing an IPS LCD panel is an appropriate trade-off for the manufacturer, for the product to reach customers more easily.

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Another distinct feature on Nokia's smartphone products is the silver-gray brand logo located on the bottom edge of the screen. By doing this, you will not be able to confuse Nokia products with any brands anymore.

In addition, Nokia has optimized the display area on the Nokia 5.4 by thinning the edges of the phone left, right and top. However, with the imbalanced top and bottom edges, it will probably be annoying for many users, but for me, there is no problem.

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Nokia 5.4, although not equipped with a screen refresh rate of 90 Hz, or higher, but I feel the screen experience on this device is quite good, there is not too much lag in swipes, touches, Surfing…

The 4,000 mAh battery of the Nokia 5.4 is small but great

First, let's take a look at the battery capacity of Nokia 5.4 a little bit. According to the parameters given by the manufacturer, the above product has a battery capacity of 4,000 mAh. With the above capacity, from the beginning I predicted the operating life of the phone to be about 7-8 hours.

I spent about 1 day testing with this battery to see if my prediction was correct or not. Let's take a quick look at the harsh test conditions as follows:

1. Experience 4 rotating tasks including: Play Lien Quan, watch YouTube, surf Facebook and use Chrome.
2. Each task uses 1 hour.
3. Screen brightness: 100%.
4. Plug in wired headphones throughout.
5. Turn on WiFi and social media notifications.
6. Do not turn on battery saver, screen adaptive, GPS and Bluetooth.
7. Dot from 100% to 0%. 

Nokia 5.4 did not disappoint me by completing the test in up to 7 hours 2 minutes. This is definitely an impressive number with this not so terrible battery. And with the needs of daily use, the 4,000 mAh battery of Nokia 5.4 can give you a much higher experience time.

In addition to the battery test, I also did not forget to measure the charging time of the product with the included 10W charger. The 10W charger that comes with the product fully charges the device from 0% to 100% in just 2 hours and 26 minutes.

The article will continue to be updated on Thursday at 15:00 this week, please look forward to it!

Jessica Tanner

Update 13 January 2021