Nokia 5.3 vs Nokia 7.2 | Best Nokia Midranger? By TheMrNokia [Abdulla Zaki]

If you're a Nokia fan looking to buy a phone below 300. You must be super confused right now, and I absolutely don't blame you. Nokia, pretty much has three devices that might be suitable for you. You have the newly released Nokia 5.3 and then the aging 6.2 and 7.2 so which one of these phones is the most suitable towards your needs, and is it worth spending the extra money getting the 7.2 over the 5.3? That's what we're here to find out. So for our start, let's find out what the extra 100 to 150 dollars get you on the 7.2. It's not as much of a massacre as you might think it is.

Firstly, it has a much higher resolution, 1080p display with much better colors and contrast compared to the 5.3. Its back panel is made out of glass with a frosted matte finish on the back, which is really nice. This is in contrast to the 5.3, which comes with a plastic composite finish on the back with a very similar matte finish. It might not have four cameras on its back like the 5.3, but the three cameras it does have been much more capable and much higher resolution starting off with the main 48 megapixel camera, and then you have the 8 megapixel ultra-wide lens and then a 5 megapixel depth. Sensing lens the selfie camera is also a superior 20 megapixel sensor and all of these cameras have mass optics.

Of course. Ram and storage options are very similar, though, with the most common one being 4 gigs of ram and 64 GB of internal storage and both of them top out as 6 GB of ram. Although on the 7.2, you can get up to 128 gigabytes of storage, both of them support SD card slots. So these are the most notable differences, at least on paper. Surprisingly, the lower end 5.3 can actually throw some punches of its own, like possessing a larger 6.55 inch display versus the 6.3 inch display found on the 7.2. It also has a larger capacity battery at 4, 000 Williams and the design is overall, slightly more modern, with thinner bezels on the bottom and the top of the front of the device.

The side profile is also slightly thinner. The biggest surprise here is that the 5.3 actually has a more capable newer processor, the snapdragon 665, compared with the snapdragon 660, which is ancient and found on the 7.2. It's the same situation when it comes to the GPU, where the newer 5.3 has a more capable newer, 610, arena GPU versus the 512 arena found on the 7.2. This should mean that in theory, the 5.3 should be more power efficient and more capable of gaming. We're going to find out.

If that's true soon enough, you can clearly see the family resemblance here. In fact, before picking them up, I actually thought they looked identical. When I just looked at their pictures, they both have a hidden notification light under their power buttons and a big circular camera bump on the back. They also both carry the redundant Google Assistant button, but in real life there are some subtle differences. The 5.3 is notably taller in profile and has a bigger camera bump on his back. The bezels on the front are also much smaller in every single direction, which makes it look more modern, carrying both phones around it's very difficult to determine which one of them is the more expensive one out of the other.

The only thing that gives it away for me is that the 7.2 feels slightly denser than the 5.3, like very slightly its hardware. Buttons also happen to be a bit more click. In fact, I would go as far as saying that most people wouldn't be able to tell the 7.2. Has a glass back finish versus the polycarbonate plastic composite on the 5.3, and that's because both of them have the same matte finish coating. This coating is very similar to something found on the latest iPhones or the Google Pixel phones.

Overall, I prefer handling the 5.3 over the 7.2 because of the slimmer waistline and the slightly smaller bezels, but I'm also sure that some people would prefer going for the 7.2 because of its smaller display, which is a bit easier to use with one hand the back mounted. Fingerprint scanner is also twice as fast on the 7.2. So keep that in mind so overall for me, when it comes to design this one is a toss up when it comes to performance. Things get pretty complicated here, as I mentioned before, the 5.3 has a more modern silicon inside, but when it comes to performing benchmarks, the 7 to 2 actually came out on top. This is mainly due to the performance scores being clocked higher on the 7.2 at 2.2 gigahertz versus 2 gigahertz on the 5.3. You might think this is very minimal, but it's a quite noticeable difference in performance, especially when it comes to using the phone in day-to-day tasks.

Here, the more expensive device feels faster and smoother. I would also suspect, since the 7.2 has had many more updates, to fix its bugs it's much better optimized compared to the 5.3, which is just freshly launched. This means that over time I expect this gap in performance to be quite narrowed down still for the time being, the 7.2 is the clear winner here, and this is once again a very important reminder that just looking at specs on a spec sheet doesn't always translate to how things are in real world usage in gaming and on paper. This should seem like a very easy win for the Nokia 5.3. It has a newer, more capable arena, 610 GPU, and it also has fewer pixels on the screen for all that processing power to push around.

I found this to be generally the case in real world usage, where a game like Call of Duty offers more high fidelity options for gaming on the 5.3 that are completely missing from the 7.2. Both phones, however, can play games smoothly on their respective settings, and the good news is both phones, don't get too hot when playing graphing intensive games. The screen, on the other hand, gives a very clear advantage for the 7.2, as it's brighter, has better colors and is higher resolution. This is why I always preferred consuming content on the 7.2 over the 5.3. This isn't because the resolution on the 5.3 bothers me. On the contrary, it doesn't at all for my eyes, but I just preferred the punchier colors on the 7.2. So to sum it up, the 5.3 is better for gaming, but for watching multimedia and content, the 7.2 wins. Now.

This is where the price difference really starts. To show the triple camera setup on the 7.2 totally dwarfs the four cameras found on the 5.3, keep in mind that megapixels usually aren't everything, but in this case they kind of are 48 megapixels, main cam versus 13 and 8 megapixels, wide angle lens versus 5, and then you have a 5 megapixel depth sensor versus 2. The additional 2 megapixel macro lens on the 5.3 is more of a novelty, really more, isn't always better as the cameras on the back of the 7.2 easily outperform their counterparts. Take the main cameras. For example, the one on the 7.2 takes sharper more contrast images with much higher levels of details. It's the same situation with the other cameras, really where, if you look at the ultra-wide lenses, the one on the 7.2 outperforms the one on the 5.3, but to be completely honest with you, they're, both not exactly excellent, it's just that one of them is a bit better than the other. You can't take pictures with the 5 megapixel depth sensor, but it does make a difference when it comes to both effects, and both phones usually do a perfect job in this situation, although I tended to prefer the images produced from the 7.2, the other big difference is in the experience of capturing images itself, where the 7.2 captures images more quickly and has a much more reliable autofocus. It just offers a much more consistent experience.

Overall, the gap in quality is quite noticeable here, but, let's not forget the existence of Guam, which really narrows the gap and gets the 5.3 shooting images that look absolutely incredible for its class. This all means that the huge gap in the stock experience might not make a huge difference to you. This is a very easy win for the 5.3. Not only does it have a noticeably larger 4000mah battery capacity compared to 3500 found on the 7.2, but it also has a lower resolution display and a newer, much more power, efficient, snapdragon 665 processors. So, even though both processors are within the same sort of level, the newer processor runs on 11 nanometer cores, which are smaller and more power efficient.

This translates very well in real life usage, where you notice about the 50 gap between the 5.3 in battery performance versus the 7.2. I was easily getting eight to nine hours of screen on time on the 5.3, and I was barely managing to get 6 on the 7.2. You might be wondering why I didn't use the 6.2 to compare against the 5.3 and the truth of the matter is. This would be a very easy win for the newer 5.3. To be honest, it's just a much better package overall price considered and all the 7.2 is a much more expensive device about 100 more expensive, and it still struggles to completely beat the newly released 5.3. Don't get me wrong.

The 7.2 is a very decent phone, but I can't help but feel like the 7.2 is more of an emotional purchase for somebody who's a fan of this brand, who wants something that looks and feels good. But, objectively speaking, I don't see a regular consumer walking into a phone shop, picking the 7.2 over its competitors, especially since they tend to have a better price versus options. Balance it's a very easy target for spec hunters to complain about some strange decisions, such as using a two-year-old processor and the below average battery capacity, make it a hard recommendation in this ultra competitive smartphone market. Luckily, the 5.3 doesn't suffer from the same mistakes. It makes compromises in the right areas to fit within its budget, which is why, for me, it's the winner in this comparison.

Let's hope we find the same spec versus price balance on the upcoming Nokia, 7.3 and 6.3. Please like share and subscribe, if you like this video, as it would really help me turn this into something more than just a hobby also feel free to check out my other Nokia related content, as there is definitely something for everybody see you in the next one.

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