It is not something new that more cameras are not always better, but many of those into mobile photography had high expectations from the Nokia 9 PureView. Sadly, Nokia's flagship with five cameras on the back failed to impress and only scored 85 points overall in DxOMark's test — 88 for still photography and 80 for video shooting.

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Those who want a unique smartphone can't go wrong with the Nokia 9 PureView, but if they also want top-of-the-line mobile photography capabilities, they will most likely end up disappointed. Although it was unleashed this spring, it took a while for the Nokia 9 PureView to arrive at DxOMark's testing lab. Although it received a few software updates since its release — and at least some of these updates were supposed to improve the performance of this handset's cameras — this handset still fails to exploit the potential of its complex camera hardware.

The Nokia 9 PureView features 2 RGB and 3 monochrome cameras on the back, all with 12 MP 1/2.9-inch sensors and 1.24 µ pixels, as well as f/1.8 lenses. For RGB images, the handset uses all cameras, but only three when shooting monochrome images and one for capturing videos.

DxOMark's tests revealed that the strongest side of the Nokia 9 PureView is its autofocus, which is fast and accurate in most conditions when shooting photos. Noise levels are also good, but the phone fails to live up to the expectations when it comes to zooming and color reproduction, suffering from color shading, pink color/white balance cast, as well as exposure instabilities.

The video shooting capabilities of the Nokia 9 PureView are quite limited, although the autofocus and stabilization work fine. Sadly, the phone suffers from a limited dynamic range, judder when panning, hit-or-miss color rendering, and so on.