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.

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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      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 .