The Nokia 5.1 features a 5.5-inch Full HD IPS LCD display with a screen resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels. The pixel density of 401 PPI accounts for a vivid display while the Full HD display enhances the viewing experience. As far as the lenses are concerned, it comes with a 16MP primary camera assisted with Phase Detection Autofocus and LED flash. The latter comes in handy while clicking images in dim-lit conditions. An 8MP front camera comes with a wide aperture of F2.0, Fixed Focus, and wide angle selfie, which comes into play for providing users with excellent selfies.

The configuration front of the device is backed by an a 2GHz Quad-core and a 1.2 GHz Quad-core processors coupled with 3GB RAM, which comes in play while multitasking. The MediaTek MT6755 chipset adds to the performance value of the device. The graphical requirement of the device is taken care by the Mali-T860 MP2 graphics processor. Coming to the storage, it is equipped with an internal storage capacity of 32GB which can be further expanded upto 128GB.

The battery facet of the device comes with a 3,000mAh Li-ion battery, which renders a talktime of 19 hours (2G) and a standby time of 588 Hours (2G). Switching to connectivity the handset comes with certain regular connectivity option like Wi-Fi 802.11, a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2, and GPS.