Nokia 3.4 vs Nokia 2.4 - Smartphone Comparison By Tech Travel Geeks

Hello, I'm Matteo the chief mobile opinions here at tech travel geeks, and this is the tech travel geeks side by side comparison between the Nokia 3.4 and the Nokia 2.4 two affordable smartphones from Nokia released in the latter part of 2020 and still on sale well into 2021. If you don't already, please do subscribe to the tape travel geeks here on YouTube. We will soon be releasing our long term reviews of both the Nokia 2.4 and the Nokia 3.4 right. Then so I've been using both these devices as secondary devices for a while, but I'm now going into that phase where, before I do a full long-term review, I actually put my main sim card in and the Nokia 3.4 and the Nokia 2.4 are now in a similar price range they're around about 100 to 130 pounds sterling, depending on where you buy them from if you're lucky and your network provider is subsidizing the cost of the Nokia 2.4, you can get it for as little as 60 pounds. What we'll do is we'll post links in the description to where you can purchase these devices on Amazon UK so check out. The prices there that's the most up-to-date pricing.

We recommend, checking out and buying from Amazon means that you get the sim free device, no ties with the network and no compulsory top-up charges right then. So these two devices, as I said, are in the same price range more or less, but offer very different experiences. As you can see just side by side, the Nokia 2.4 is actually a longer device than the Nokia 3.4. That's because it's a different aspect ratio screen different body different battery even, and they're, very, very different devices in the price range. So technically the Nokia 3.4 is a step-up in terms of overall experience. It is a three series device, as opposed to the Nokia 2.4, which is a two series device. Now looking at the two devices, you can see that from the back.

They also have different appearance. Now, interestingly, both of them have textured backs, but the two textures are different, so the Nokia 2.4 here has a nice textured back with a gradient of color from a darker gray to a lighter silvery one at the top. I quite like this design with the gradient color on it and the Nokia brand in the middle, but the texture is actually quite fine here. It means that you don't leave any fingerprints on the screen when, when using it, even if you have greasy fingers like mine and not only that it's less slippery, whereas the Nokia 3.4, as you can probably see here- has a much stronger texture and in this charcoal color um is more uniform. It's also feeling more sort of uh sandpaper, not sanctuary.

Furthermore, it's not like the one OnePlus one used to be it's more like a proper texture, whereas the Nokia 2.4 is a finer if you're, using both devices without a case on them, they will both be quite pleasant to use and not slippery, but I would say the Nokia 3.4, with its deeper grooves in that texture, is easier to not have slip out of your hand. Now, as you can see, there's also two very different industrial designs in the back of the devices. Whilst they both share that Nokia logo in horizontal on the back of the device, they both have fingerprint scanners placed centrally in the upper half of the device, which is really, really handy for accessing your device. These fingerprint scanners work. Well, they seem to be a tried and tested fingerprint scanner technology.

It's nothing new, nothing revolutionary! It just works, especially in this price category. Furthermore, it's perfect to have a responsive touchpad for recognizing your fingerprint, whereas the camera module on the Nokia 2.4 is just a simple, centrally located pill shape. Now that camera module on the Nokia 2.4 houses, two lenses, one is a 13 megapixel autofocus lens. It's a very basic smartphone camera. At this point in 2021.

It also has a 2 megapixel depth sensor. I'm not sure if that really gives you any real advantage, but it's its there and for markets where the number of cameras you have maybe defines your spending power and your social status. That may be important to you, but in day-to-day use the mains camera is the one you use for everything, and it's decent enough camera on the Nokia 2.4, but nothing exceptional. The Nokia 3.4, on the other hand, goes with the Nokia sort of round camera module above that fingerprint scanner. In my experience, both fingerprint scanners perform equally they're equally good as responsive and not suspectable, to wet fingers, and you see that the camera module is slightly more raised than on the Nokia 2.4, but it also has three cameras as well as a flash module and those three cameras are a 13 megapixel standard wide lens which has phase detection autofocus, just a basic good, 13 megapixel camera there's also a 5 megapixel ultra-wide camera, which is great for capturing those wider outdoor environments or architecture. It's a handy camera to have, and I really do appreciate that on a smartphone.

If much prefer that to macro cameras, and there is also two megapixel depth sensor without doubt very similar to the one and the Nokia 2.4 so in day-to-day use. The Nokia 3.4 has two main camera modules that work well uh. They work together, potentially with some effects, but overall it's nothing perfect. It's not uh great, but for the price it'd be that hundreds to 130 pound price range. It's pretty decent now, both of these phones have 13 megapixel cameras and both of them are capable of recording full high definition, video at 30 frames per second.

That means that the video quality will be good enough, with good lighting conditions to use on most people's TVs at the best resolution. Now one thing to bear in mind is that this is because of the chipset, the computer chips inside the smartphones that run the phone itself, but also the camera, and these two phones have the most different of chipsets. So the Nokia 2.4 is running on a MediaTek hello p22 chipset uh, which is a basic entry level chipset, but very, very efficient for its generation, whereas the Nokia 3.4 it is running on, in this case, it's running on the Qualcomm snapdragon 460 chipsets, which is a slightly newer chipset. But it's not that much more powerful in terms of day-to-day use than that MediaTek hello chipset. So two different brands of chips on the inside the one on the Nokia 2.4 is slightly older, but it holds up very well and compared to other devices in this price range performs very, very well. I would say that in day-to-day use I don't really notice a difference between the two in terms of their performance.

One thing to bear in mind is that the both smartphones are similar in size, but the Nokia 2.4, as you can see side by side, is longer. That's because it's screen on the front uh its LCD panel in the front is a longer aspect ratio. So the Nokia, the Nokia 2.4, is, has a 20 to 9 aspect ratios where 20 to 9 is there, and it's a HD plus one. It's not full high definition, it's a standard 721, so it's 720 pixels by 1600, and that's quite a long screen. It's great for reading twitter scrolling through your posts on various social channels that involve scrolling.

So it's its good. Nokia 3.4 uses its screen differently in terms of how it's laid out. Obviously the Nokia 2.4 has a teardrop notch or a nipple notch at the top here, whereas the Nokia 3.4 has a dodge a little cut out hole on the top left hand, side of the screen for the selfie camera and whereas both devices on the back their main sensors are 13 megapixel ones. You find two quite different selfie cameras, so the Nokia 2.4 has a 5 megapixel selfie camera, whereas the Nokia 3.4 ups, the game with an 8 megapixel one. So two very different selfie cameras.

I do notice a difference in terms of the selfies taken. If selfies are important to you, I would definitely recommend the Nokia 3.4 over the Nokia 2.4. Now, as I said, the screens are different aspect ratios pretty much the same resolution. Nokia 3.4 is 720 pixels by in this case 1560. So it's a 19.5 to 9 aspect ratios rather than the 20 to 9 aspect ratios. We have on the Nokia 2.4 in terms of operating system and that this is the setup that runs the phone they're, the same they're running uh us what some people refer to as stock android. This is android.

One on both devices, so it is a Google like experience similar to what you see on Google Pixel smartphones, it's clean, it's simple and in some cases it might be a little frustrating coming to this smartphone from ones that people have been using in the past. Now we have done a couple of videos on this uh subject: uh on the tech, travel geeks YouTube channel, specifically how to get three buttons at the bottom of your screen. So this is not the default navigation on the Nokia 2.4 or on the Nokia 3.4. You have a system, navigation settings which allow you to switch between the three button, navigation and the gesture navigation, so I'll, just reset it to gesture navigation at the moment. So you get to see that in action, so you'll see, I have lost the three buttons at the bottom of my screen.

That's because I have enabled gesture navigation. Now, gesture navigation does take a while to get used to for most people. This is not something they want to do, and they can go back to the three buttons, but it is an option that you still have in the Nokia 2.4 and 3.4 to choose which gesture navigation or button navigation you have on your device. So if you haven't already, please do check out those videos they might be of use for you, but in terms of the overall experience they're very, very similar because it's stock android. So you have an app drawer uh, where you're all your apps are, and you can choose which apps go on your go on your home screen and how many home screens you have and when you swipe to the left, you then have the Google feed your Google feed, as you would have on a pixel and any other device using the Google like launcher.

It's a very useful set of information and articles and links to the weather or relevant content to you as a person, and I quite enjoy that this is something that I do uh like. Having is that google-like experience of the Google launcher? The same goes for the settings. It's not super exciting. We have light mode on the Nokia 2.4 here and dark mode on the Nokia 3.4, it's very simple and straightforward. There aren't too many pre-installed apps, though I have to say um, unlike the first HMD global Nokia smartphones.

A few years ago, there has been a slight creep of pre-installed applications that come on the device, and you can find out more about that in our unboxing and setup videos for the Nokia, 2.4 and Nokia 3.4, but overall, clean user experience, clean android distribution very good and straightforward. There is little or no customizations from Nokia. Apart from the camera app, both these devices have the Nokia camera, which is very, very close to what we get from Google in terms of performance. There is a slightly faster experience, especially when gaming on the Nokia 3.4, because it has a snapdragon chipset compared to the MediaTek one, but if your main use of a smartphone is for social media messaging, video calls phone calls they're, both pretty equivalent. If anything, with a longer aspect ratio screen through gear 2.4 has a certain advantage. You scroll slightly less if you have a longer screen.

So that's one thing to bear in mind in terms of connectivity: there's an odd difference, so the Nokia 3.4 has the usual Wi-Fi. It's all 2.4 gigahertz, there's no 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi, and it works great. You can also make your phone become a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you have data to spare- and you want to share it say with a tablet- computer or another device, the same with the Nokia 2.4. But the odd thing is that the Nokia 2.4 so the one in the lower series. So the Nokia 2 series has Bluetooth 5 the latest version of Bluetooth, which does allow you to connect multiple devices at once, such as a smartwatch or earphones at the same time, whereas the Nokia 3.4 only has Bluetooth 4.2, which is puzzling, but for most people won't be a big dealbreaker now. The other thing which is the other way around, is the Nokia 2.4 in the European version that we have does not have NFC. So you won't be able to use the smartphone for, for example, contactless, payments accessing public transit and so forth, whereas the Nokia 3.4 does have that. So you can use your smartphone for Google Pay for accessing public transit or any other thing that you'd use NFC.

For so that's the key differences between the two newer version of Bluetooth allows you to do more on the Nokia 2.4 uh older version of Nokia, 3.4 no NFC on the Nokia 2.4. Whilst the Nokia 3.4 does have NFC both devices charge using USB cables, but there is a key difference here. The Nokia 2.4 uses the older micro USB format for charging. Now I know this is going to sound a bit crazy, but I was going to let companies get away with this in 2020 I was. It was the last year any new smartphones this year that launched with micro USB.

I don't think it's a good thing anymore. The world is moving on to USB type c, but this device did launch in 2020. It is a budget smartphone. It's an affordable smartphone if micro USB brings down the cost or keeps it low. I'm happy with that.

So just bear in mind that it has USB in the micro, USB format, for charging for things like car chargers or any accessories. That might be an issue, whereas the Nokia 3.4 uses USB type c. This is the new standard. It works. Disappointingly, the Nokia 3.4 comes with a slow, 10 watt charger in the box. The key difference there is that it is capable of fast charging at 15 watts.

If you use a third-party charger or one from another phone, it does charge faster. Speaking of charging, both devices in my medium to heavy use will comfortably get through a full day of use. Now there is some slight differences. The screen on the Nokia, 3.4 and 2.4 are very similar. I imagine that you use the same amount of power, but in terms of chipset efficiency, I found that the Nokia 2.4 does have longer battery life. That may be in part to the fact that it has a 4500 William hour battery under that textured finish back, whereas the Nokia 3.4 has a 4 000 William hour battery behind its own textured back so two different battery sizes, slightly bigger screen that uses more power. But overall I found the Nokia 2.4 in normal use for messaging social media. Some light video and YouTube watching the Nokia 2.4 does last longer. So I think we've covered all the key things.

We've got battery screen usability everything's there. One thing I just wanted to make you aware of both these devices are android, one one. If you go to Nokia's website, they have a lot of claims of monthly security updates and two years of operating system updates. I would take those with a pinch of salt, because over the last few years, Nokia had been quite good at those monthly security updates and operating system updates, but especially in 2020 and going into 2021. I found that not to be the case.

Nokia 3.4, for example, has just upgraded for me to the January security update and the Nokia 2.4 is still in the January security update we're at the end of February. I would expect the February security update to be available to me, but this is something that Nokia need to deal with. It's not great that they're still advertising on their website that you will get monthly security updates. If that's not the case. So I think this is something that they need to deal with.

But apart from that, it's a clean operating system, though it is running on an older version of android we're now, almost six months away from the release of android 11. , both the Nokia 3.4 and the Nokia 2.4 launched with android 10. They say there is a planned upgrade to android 11, but at the end of February, beginning of March 2021 that isn't available yet so Nokia probably need to sort that out, but overall for most users, that's not a huge thing. Okay, then, so we've covered everything. Both devices have the Google Assistant and a dedicated button.

Um, I'm not going to say the keyword to trigger everyone's uh favorite search engine assistant. That's the g word uh, so we'll wrap up this video by saying these are two great smartphones that offer great value for money. Uh both are pretty equivalent. The main difference is if you're playing games a lot. Maybe the Nokia 3.4 is slightly better. On the other hand, if you use your smartphone for all the basics, but don't want something with all ringing bells.

The Nokia 2.4 is a very, very good option. Both devices in their base version come with 32, gigabytes of storage built in and 3 gigabytes of ram, whereas the Nokia 2.4 comes with two gigabytes of ram. There is a more expensive 64, gigabyte, three gigabyte versions, but that's only available in select markets, so 32 megabytes for most people are more than enough. Don't expect to run all the latest games on it installed at the same time, because that 32 gigabytes is limited, but you do get expandability with micros on both of them. So bear that in mind.

It's your not locked into that storage. You can expand it, so I'll wrap up this video. Thank you for watching all the way through here, more than 20 minutes, if you made it to this point in the video. Thank you for watching. If you don't already, please do subscribe to the tech travel geeks here on YouTube and check out our upcoming long-term reviews of both these devices.

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