Nuu Mobiles launches flagship Nuu X5: Hands on Review

Nuu mobile came into the Indian market with 4 new devices, with one of them being their mid-range flagship device, the Nuu X5. With a price of 15,999, the device is in the most competitive market with the likes of Redmi Note 4 and Moto G5 Plus.

Specifications

The Nuu X5 sports a Zinc-aluminium alloy casing with the fingerprint sensor sitting at the back. The device is powered by a 1.5 GHz Octa-core MediaTek SoC coupled with 3GB of RAM. X5 sports a 5.5-inch Full-HD display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels. The smartphone runs on Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. Internal storage on the device is 32GB which is further expandable through a microSD card.

X5 has a single lens 13-megapixel primary camera with LED flash. On the front, the device has a 5-megapixel wide angle camera lens. The device has a 2950mAh battery, although the company haven't informed about any type of fast charging.

Hands-On Review

Even though this device is a flagship from the company, it's a pretty average device. With the MediaTek processor, it would make you think if you can you trust the device when cheaper devices offer better chipset. The device has very average specifications for the price. Nevertheless, the big plus of the device is it's running stock Android 7.0 which seems to work fine without any noticeable lag on our brief usage of the device. Also, the company promises fairly fast updates.The metal body feels very premium with a Full HD screen, which is bright and colourful inside. We weren't able to test the device under sunlight for the screen performance.

The camera on the X5 is a 13-megapixel sensor with autofocus and a LED flash. We took some shots from the device under good lighting conditions. The shots turned out to be pretty average, with other devices in the segment being leaps and bounds ahead of the X5. Up front, the smartphone has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, which is a wide angle lens. The camera does a pretty average job on selfies under good lighting.