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iamNegro:
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The reason I was particular of it dropping 1% under 1hr 15 minutes is because you made no mention of what happens afterwards, so anyone may reach a wrong conclusion that it follows that trend continously. Even as good as this phone is. people praise the battery that it lasts well for a 3060 mah phone, but your exaggeration is excessive Biko. I have read reviews under trusted platforms, real life usages from friends etc.

I have sufficient reason to make a judgement on your exaggerated review. Haba. it is one thing to praise and another to exaggerate its worth

The whole point was not to exaggerate but to paint a picture of just how impressed I was by the battery.

For example I would unplug the phone at 100% and begin watching a 2hrs movie and by the end of the movie... The battery would be at 96% provided both WiFi and data are turned off and no app is left running in the background. And in no way is that an exaggeration... My point is sometimes I notice I have gone half way into the movie before the first drop in battery percentage.

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iamNegro:
The battery reduction is really comical. Not even the most optimized phone with better soc, running Android one can optimize battery that way.

1hr15 min for 1% to drop
8am to 7pm for 40% loss.

We are not uneducated here. It is one thing to praise the battery optimization for the mah it comes with but that above is a very extreme exaggeration. I have friends who use the Nokia X5 and yes the phone is impressive, but the battery power is really exaggerated above.

Don't be a smart ass. Obviously the fact that it's running Android one is a major plus on battery optimization as there's basically no other skin processes constantly running as those of third party manufacturers skin OS. That's not my point!

First of all it takes longer for a fully charged phone to fall from 100% to 99% than it takes for that same phone to fall from 99% to 98%. This is especially true for new phones that still have their complete battery cells intact... This is especially true for a new Nokia X5. I can't brag of it still doing that now that I have used the phone for several months. You have never owned a brand new Nokia X5 and coming to counter me with the idea that u have friends that use the phone is still a baseless counter as their's is most likely not in its 'brand new' state. And the fact that u have friends that use the phone does not give u the same insight as someone who owns the damn phone. Or have u been closely monitoring the battery drainage from the time of purchase?

And for someone who wants to fill the role of a so called 'educated' person, are u under the impression that battery drainage is done in a constant time ratio? That if it takes 30mins for 1% to drop it will continue in that constant order until you run out of battery? The first 10% and last 10%% of a new battery is the hardest to drain, and that factor aside, battery drainage is not done in a constant ratio, depending on the phones usage and processing activities the drainage of a phone or any device actually fluctuates.

I may have exaggerated on some factors to a minor degree to drive home a point... Not to be countered by some so called 'educated' smart ass that can't decipher an intended point and be quiet about it.

dmgr:
The both devices 're really nice with great specs and I find it hard to pick one from them.Those that have use any of the device should help me choose.

Things I want in a phone re

Battery
Camera
Performance/speed
Then mayb display

Thou I know I can't have it all but At least I can get 3 out of the 4

Let me requote a post I posted on another thread!

Troublemaker101:
Man, I've really thought about these phones (x6 & x5), and I've come to the conclusion that they ain't worth it ... I mean, you're spending 64/48k on a phone that you're not even sure if at all it's going to support your preferred network's 4G mode, it's known to have multiple hardware or software issues (the fact that it's fine now doesn't mean it'll be fine after 2 months ), upon all there's no warranty and you'll have to pay a lot of money just to get it done after a fault(I hope for your sake it's not the glass or charging port ), the battery isn't really cool at the end of the day(no matter how many optimisation processes u use) and there are other phones in that price range with better cameras... not to mention the fact that the one with the outstanding mtk p20 processor has ram management issues while the other with OK ram management has a less than average processor.... to top it all up, the Nokia we grew up with, the Nokia that created those magnificent bulletproof torchlight phones and the lumia series is now just a marketing name , the real company producing these phones is called HMD.. omo, as someone with a 65K phone budget, I think the Xiaomi brand has something better to offer in form of the note 5 & 6 pro
It's not that I'm discouraging people o (sincerely I don't think I've said anything here that isn't true ), experiences differ, I'm just saying my honest view of the whole thing.... isn't that what the nairaland forum is for??

I was going to walk away after reading ur comment but there is something u said that really, really pisses me off.

Man, I've really thought about these phones (x6 & x5), and I've come to the conclusion that they ain't worth it

Am not sure what u r basing ur comment on but if I had the option of rebuying a phone, it would still be the Nokia X5. Why?

Battery: contrary to what u stated above, the Nokia X5's battery is the most optimized battery usage in all the phones I have ever used (Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, S6 Edge and Galaxy J6 plus), I have never used a Xiaomi, Tecno or an Infinix phone but a few people I know do and from their observed usage, i can tell u I haven't met anyone whose phones battery seems better optimized than the X5.

Let me explain, let's say I charge my phone to 100% and just want to watch movies all day, it takes approximately 1hr 15mins for my battery to drop to 99% and I can watch movies all day from 8am to 7pm and I'll still have around 60% battery left, mind u both WiFi and data are turned off. .

On a normal days usage of surfing the net, chatting and moderate gaming on the go, I still end up with between 30% to 50% juice left by the time I get home around 8pm, to be honest, my X5 has never seen 30% battery since I got it two months ago. Like I said, never have I used a phone with such well optimized battery.

Processor: I think this is where the X5 makes a home run. The X5 is easily the fastest phone I have used and I can proudly say my X5 has never hanged or temporarily slowed down on me, not even once. It can handle pretty much everything you throw at it and still have room to spare. Opening, closing and multitasking between apps has never been this fast for me, now I am starting to believe Samsung might have lost a loyal customer in me, not even the Galaxy S10 interests me anymore

Design: Another home run for the X5. The phones design is simply a thing of beauty, it's so nicely designed that it's always pulling in admirers when ever I pull it out to use in public. Even though I think the notch could have been just a little smaller, it still gives the phone an aesthetic appeal that resembles that of an iPhone, especially when using apps with full white backgrounds, like Instagram and reading in your browser, it never fails to appeal to onlookers. So far 3 people I know have gotten this phone just from seeing it once in my hands and 2 others are planning on buying it as soon as it gets restocked. The only issue is that the phone looks so good that after trying on a pouch and screen guard and seeing how ugly it was in comparison to the phones design, I dumped both and have been using the phone like that... Yeah as u can guess, some bitch I gave the phone to admire let it slip off her hand and cracked my outer screen slightly. Well I'll have to order a replacement from AliExpress, and it's quite cheap.

Network Support: Although I initially had my reservations about buying a phone that seemed to support fewer LTE bands than it should, I still went ahead with getting this phone because the pros seemed to outweigh the cons, and I am so glad I did, so far it supports every networks 4G I had hoped it did, with exception to Glo's 4G, mine supports Airtel 4G, Etisalat 4G, Ntel 4G and surprisingly MTN 4G also works. I have no issue with it not supporting Glo's 4G as even the Glo's H+ speed is good enough to not be crazy about its 4G, in my area that is. So unless u r strictly on Glo's bandwagon, then don't make this a factor for not getting the phone.

Speaker & Charging: The phones speaker is surprisingly louder than I had anticipated, louder than all my previous phones. It's surprising because it only has one speaker outlet and yet it's quite loud, which is quite a bonus.
Although the X5 does not support fast charging on paper, it does charge fast enough for me, I usually get my phone fully charged in less than an hour, mind u it's never flat, maybe from 33% to 100% in under an hour. So that's a plus.

Affordability: Getting a phone with this good a spec and aesthetic design that can make an onlooker drool over your phone at such a cheap cost is pretty much a dream come true. It never fails to impress me when someone asks me what phone am using and i say Nokia, Lol... u need to see the suprise and sometimes shock that appears on their faces. Samsung would charge u a 100+ for that, and this is coming from a Samsung loyalist. Enough said.

Issue: The only issue I can honestly point out that pisses me off on a regular basis is Android PIE, it has a fu*ked up ram management optimization, I can't even leave my apps running in the background without pie dropping the axe on them, it even kills 3rd party download managers downloading in the background once u leave it and some other app all running and go do something like say check you instagram.. Pie fu*ks u over of course i love all the features that comes with Pie, but ram management is so not one of them. But that can always be fixed in an update.

To sum it all up, if I had to rebuy a phone... You can bet it would still be the Nokia X5.

So saying the phone is not worth it when u neither own or use one is an insult to others using it, I personally find that to be quite insulting as I believe the phone is worth more than I got it for.

YOUNGELDER1:
And what I’m telling you is that there’s no option to move pictures and videos to SD cards

Calm down it's just your misconception of things that is holding u back. Obviously there is no option shown for that... You will have to either use the filemanager that came with the phone or download a better one from playstore and manually mark everything media related in your internal memory and move it to the SD Card.

I am currently using the Nokia X5 and for me it's the best budget phone money can buy. After months of owning it people still stop me to ask what phone am using.

As for the memory capacity it's the same as yours but u don't see me complaining, I even have upto 150 apps installed on it.
I simply move things from my internal to my 64GB SD Card once it starts getting full. Although someone accidentally formatted my 64GB SD card recently.