HMD Global, which makes Nokia-branded phones, has become the first major smartphone company to manufacture devices in Europe with its first made-in-Hungary 5G model, aimed at data security-conscious customers, now available for purchase.
Here’s the phone specs : https://m.gsmarena.com/nokia_xr21-12244.php
Personal opinion :
Cons :
Too expensive.
The screen is LCD
No sd card slot
Pros :
earphone jack.
i would be willing to overlook those cons if they just allowed an unlockable bootloader. man i miss my 6.1 with lineageos
I think Google pixel phones have an unlocked bootloader. I have a Xiaomi note 10 and they allow rooting the phone via their official app.
Android 12???
Turns out it costs more to make things in Europe.
They could at least use A13, there’s no excuse for releasing with A12 weeks before A14 is out
We live at a time where an earphone jack is considered a pro…
Nowadays, even the cheapest phones are sufficient in terms of power for the most demanding regular user activities such as social media , watching videos, taking good enough pictures and light gaming.
I few years ago, before Xiaomi flooded the world with cheap powerful smartphone, you had the choice between 4 type of phones : weak phone that crumble by just looking at it, weak phone, slightly more powerful phones and flagship. We now don’t need to be scared that the phone will slow down to a crawl because you have too many apps in the background fighting for ressources. (usually 2 or 3 along the forced uninstallable pre-installed garbage ).
Every shitty phone trend ( no headphone jack, non removable batteries…etc) was originated by apple (obligatory fuck apple ), and each time, they were made fun of by other companies at first but because the extra money is too good they followed them later.
Now, basic features that were once the standard on every phone are what differentiate them.
Nowadays, even the cheapest phones are sufficient in terms of power for the most demanding regular user activities such as social media , watching videos, taking good enough pictures and light gaming.
Eh, try doing that with HMD’s Nokia 5.3 - Instagram was a PITA with frequent long stutters and the official YouTube app was nearly unusable (NewPipe for the rescue). Oh and its camera app also kept randomly forgetting to actually save the photos I took after updating to Android 11 (which came with a year long delay behind upstream, so I was already out of warranty once it hit), and Android 12 update earlier this year did nothing to fix the issues but made it so that factory resetting would permanently brick the phone, so that troubleshooting option was also gone.
There were other issues with unreliable rear fingerprint sensor and touchscreen towards the tail end of me owning the phone, but I’m willing to consider those hardware issues with just my unit.
Yes, I’m a tiiiiny bit salty about that, mostly because Nokia is the last cheap way to get close to stock Android and now I just have zero trust in them and am forced to pay more for a Pixel.
Nokia 5.x wasn’t even the lowest product range, they also made corresponding 3.x phones, but maybe those were better thanks to Android Go?
The phone software is as important as the hardware.
The update to android 12 made several phones, including mine, very instable. I blame Google that 4GB went from plenty enough to barely enough to not crash the phone in a single update. Wtf is Google doing ?
I believe that since the companies headquarters are in Europe they can’t have the same gain margin as companies in Asia so they’re gonna sell crap specs / bad sensors at higher prices, although the phone spec isn’t that bad for a 2020 phone but still it’s a bit more expensive than it’s worth at 290€. Them having a stock android ROM isn’t because they care about the user but because they don’t need a lot of devs like with a custom ROM. But apparently, It seems from what you said and the shocking comments on gsm arena that they had absolutely none .
I’m not a fan of HMD, but I would rather have an LCD screen than an AMOLED that will burn in. There’s no problem with LCDs whatsoever.
Never had AMOLED burn in and i only buy cheap phones. LCD are bad for the battery.
Multiple AMOLED phones in the family have so heavy burned in patterns that it hurts to look at it.
More cons from the specsheet: Display is too dim, and SoC is too slow.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - HMD Global, which makes Nokia-branded phones, has become the first major smartphone company to manufacture devices in Europe with its first made-in-Hungary 5G model, aimed at data security-conscious customers, now available for purchase.
“We are thrilled to be manufacturing the Nokia XR21, our signature rugged 5G smartphone, in Europe,” HMD Global co-founder, chairman and CEO Jean-Francois Baril said on Tuesday.
Before HMD opened its Hungarian operations, Europe had no large-scale smartphone manufacturing as major companies like Apple and Samsung make their phones in Asia to keep costs down.
However, concerns over national security have come to the fore in recent years, prompting the U.S. to place technology sanctions on Huawei’s mobile business, while China expanded curbs on the use of iPhones by state employees.
HMD signed an exclusive 10-year licensing agreement with Nokia Oyj (NOKIA.HE), once the world’s largest phone maker, in 2016 to make Nokia-branded smartphones and tablets.
A limited edition of 30 units from the European production line in frosted platinum will be available for purchase from the company’s website from 699 euros or 599 pounds, it said.
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