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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 28, @11:50AM
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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