
Some phones with metal sides manage to feel quite high-end even with plastic rears. It has a pull-off plastic battery cover, curved to feel good, but the sides are anodized aluminum rather than plastic. The Nokia 2 looks like a relative of Nokia's old Lumia phones. It's 9.3 mm thick and 161 g so is empirically quite chunky but hides this fairly well. The Nokia 2 does not seem especially heavy or fat even though it has an unusually large battery. The Nokia 2's battery is also huge at 4,100 mAh, letting it outlast any big-name phone in this class. It has metal sides rather than a pure plastic frame, and the screen is surprisingly vivid for a low-end model. There are a few neat parts of this phone, though.

The Nokia 2 is a basic smartphone for those who want something that doesn't cost a lot SIM-free, or that comes 'free' on an affordable contract. The higher the number, the better the phone is.


Nokia 2Nokia's phone range doesn't mess about with confusing names.
