Stefan Mileschin

HMD Global has introduced its new flagship smartphone, the Nokia 8.1. The phone features a large 6.18-inch display, an elegant design with a metallic frame, an advanced camera with Zeiss optics, and a pretty unique selfie camera with a 20 MP sensor. What sets the Nokia 8.1 apart from other Nokia 8-branded devices released by HMD so far is an odd choice of SoC and features for a high-end smartphone. In fact, the Nokia 8.1 looks to be a rebadged version of the Nokia X7 introduced in China earlier this year.
Positioning, Chassis and Display

Let us start from the positioning of the phone. Nokia’s 8-series has traditionally been all about style (as discussed in historical flashback of our Nokia 8 Sirocco coverage), yet they did feature many differentiating innovations, essentially being Nokia’s business-oriented 6-series in a more premium chassis with a very distinctive design.

Officially, HMD positions the Nokia 8.1 between the Nokia 8 released in Fall 2017 and the Nokia 8 Sirocco launched last Spring, leaving the Nokia 8 Sirocco on the very top of HMD’s product range. Meanwhile, many features of the new Nokia 8.1 make it more of a successor to the Nokia 7 Plus rather than the Nokia 8.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13705...m-zeiss-optics