The Nokia 6.1 Plus comes with Google's Android One experience out of the box. For now, it's only running Android 8.1 Oreo, but we suppose Android Pie should be coming in the future.
Android One is about bringing Google's version of Android to devices from other OEMs. It's not quite the same as having stock Android, as OEMs are allowed some customizations, but the general look and feel is very reminiscent of Google's own Pixel and Nexus series of devices.
The Nokia 6.1 Plus mostly delivers on this promise, but with a few Nokia customizations along the way. The launcher seems to be a different version or at least a different version than the one on the Mi A2 and lacks the option not to add new app icons to the home screen. Every time we installed an app, we had to manually remove the icon from the homescreen every time. The launcher is similar to the Pixel Oreo launcher, wherein the app drawer and notification shade color depend upon your wallpaper, and you can't just force it to be light or dark, a feature that was added in the Android Pie launcher.
The phone comes with largely the standard set of Google apps with a handful of apps. There are a few third-party apps installed, but they can be uninstalled.
Inside the Settings app, things look pretty much stock, except for the addition of a Gestures menu, which includes options such as rejecting calls by turning over the phone, mute on pickup, swipe fingerprint sensor for notifications, double tap power button to open the camera and lift to wake the phone. Also, in the battery menu, is the aforementioned background activity manager that lets you prevent all or individual apps from running in the background.
The UI experience here is overwhelmingly stock, which is good and what you expect from an Android One device Nokia also didn't bother adding rounded corners for the top edges of the screen when the notch isn't being used and it just looks cut off.The problem here is that stock Android Oreo wasn't designed with notches in mind,and Nokia either didn't or just couldn't do much to fix that.
It's also weird how the phone deals with making apps fullscreen to fill its entire 19:9 aspect ratio display. Again, stock Android Oreo has no option for this built-in. Other manufacturers provide an option in the Settings app to control this on a per-app basis. On the Nokia 6.1 Plus, you have to open the app, but if it's not designed to fill the entire screen, you won't see any option immediately to fix that as on other devices. You have to first go into multitasking or the Overview mode and then wait for a button to appear on that particular app window. When you tap that button, the app then reopens and fills the entire screen.
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