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Nokia has announced one of the first budget Android smartphones designed to be repaired at home allowing users to swap out the battery in under five minutes in partnership with iFixit.
Launched before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Saturday, the Nokia G22 has a removable back and internal design that allows components to be easily unscrewed and swapped out including the battery, screen and charging port.
Nokia phones manufacturer HMD Global will make "quick fix" repair guides and genuine parts available for five years via specialists iFixit, in addition to affordable professional repair options.
[...] HMD Global hopes to ride the wave of increasing consumer desire for longer-lasting and more repairable devices. It follows in the footsteps of pioneers such as the Dutch manufacturer Fairphone, but at more affordable prices and with far simpler processes than Apple's recent DIY repair programmes.
The Nokia G22 will cost from £149.99 shipping on 8 March with replacement parts costing £18.99 for a charging port, £22.99 for a battery and £44.99 for a screen.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27, @07:46PM (2 children)
Neither Nokia (the company), nor Microsoft, makes phones anymore, and they haven't done so for a long time.
Nokia sold their mobile phone division to Microsoft in 2014, but Microsoft didn't stay in that market for very long. Microsoft sold off their mobile phone business in 2016 to a new company, HMD Global (mostly a bunch of former Nokia people), which has been producing Nokia-branded Android phones since early 2017.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 27, @07:49PM
Microsoft makes the Surface Duo 2 [wikipedia.org] Android smartphone, launched in October 2021.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Monday February 27, @07:53PM
Another story about Nokia and their current activities is out tomorrow.