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Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone

posted by hubie on Monday February 27, @06:37PM   

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Nokia G22 has removable back and standard screws allowing battery swap in less than five minutes at home

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.

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• Re:Android? Re:Android? (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday February 27, @07:47PM (1 child)

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday February 27, @07:47PM (#1293573) Journal

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#2016%E2%80%932019 [wikipedia.org]

  On 18 May 2016, Microsoft Mobile sold its Nokia-branded feature phone business to HMD Global, a new company founded by former Nokia executive Jean-Francois Baril, and an associated factory in Vietnam to Foxconn's FIH Mobile subsidiary. Nokia subsequently entered into a long-term licensing deal to make HMD the exclusive manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones and tablets outside Japan, operating in conjunction with Foxconn. The deal also granted HMD the right to essential patents and featurephone software. HMD subsequently announced the Android-based Nokia 6 smartphone in January 2017. At Mobile World Congress, HMD additionally unveiled the Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 smartphones, as well as a re-imagining of Nokia's classic 3310 feature phone. While Nokia has no investment in the company, they do have some input in the new devices.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global [wikipedia.org]

  Microsoft has since released the Surface Duo [wikipedia.org] and Surface Duo 2 [wikipedia.org] Android smartphones.

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• Re:Android? (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 28, @11:50AM

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 28, @11:50AM (#1293694)

  MS acquired Nokia 25 April 2014, then acknowledged their mistake just over 2 years later, but not all of the deal was a mistake.

  The brief MS ownership of Qt via their Nokia purchase seems to have had lasting effects in the form of Qt resurrecting their semi commercial licensing model, aggressive FUD marketing, etc. This "new" Qt managed to piss off software management in a division of our company sufficiently to take Qt off the list of tools to consider for future product development, and while that division didn't go Microsoft, their dropping of Qt effectively shut down my efforts to move our division out of Microsoft tools to Qt / Linux and open source project management tools, so we're still all $2k per head per year subscribers to the M$ tools, plus what we now pay for Azure DevOps, desktop OS licenses etc.

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