I have an s9+ and people constantly complain about it not being a true edge to edge screen. I get the complaints with it, but a minimal amount of real estate around the top and bottom never bothered me. Seeing 5 cameras on the back when someone is taking a picture would make me laugh immediately. Great, you can take a gold photo, but at the expense of making your phone look like it is a spider eye.
I do on the other hand see the allure of having that on a phone. Cameras get better each year (the fact that I can shoot 4k 60fps on my phone boggles my mind), and the setup sounds super solid for what it is.
Unlike the cameras you’ll find on the Galaxy S10 et al, there are no wide, telephoto or ultra-wide sensors. Instead, the setup comprises of Zeiss lenses; three 12MP f/1.8 monochrome lenses and two 12MP f/1.8 RGB lenses accompanied a flash and a time-of-flight sensor that round off the spider eye-esque setup.
When taking an image, the Nokia 9 takes shots from all five of these cameras and combines them into one high-resolution photo. This, according to HMD, allows the device to collect 10x more light than traditional smartphone cameras and means it can capture a more detailed depth map - up to 1,200 layers of depth data, to be exact - which should make for “DSLR-quality” Bokeh images.