Nokia 9 PureView hands-on: All of the cameras and none of the gimmicks

Compared to Samsung's folding phone and LG's touchless UI, the Nokia 9 PureView, HMD's first flagship of 2019, is decidedly simple in its ambitions. It merely wants to take the best possible photos ever recorded by a smartphone.

Actually achieving it, however, isn't simple at all. The back of the Nokia 9 sports a unique penta-lens array of cameras, plus a sensor and a flash, arranged in a neat hexagonal pattern. Clockwise from top, you get:

1. 12MP monochrome, f/1.8 
2. Time of Flight sensor
3. 12MP monochrome, f/1.8
4. 12MP RGB, f/1.8
5. LED flash
6. 12MP monochrome, f/1.8 (center)