>Google’s Nexus line of phones is now dead. But Nokia, under the stewardship of HMD Global, could well bring back elements of what made Google’s Nexus phones so popular with users. Things like stock Android, fast updates and competitive pricing.
>In a recent release, HMD noted it is putting in place a new strategic partnership with Google and Foxconn to further its gains in the mobile space during 2017/18.
>“Most of the smartphones in the market do not have the Android OS in the way it should be,” said HMD Global’s vice president for the Middle East and North Africa Per Ekman.
>“Vendors are adding a skin on top of the OS. Consumers have the right to have the latest version of the OS, and we will be pushing the latest version and the patches as soon as it is available from Google.”
Chinese company HMD Global bought the Nokia brand. The finnish company has nothing to do with the phones anymore.
Ayden Perry
Nokia will always be a failure.
The reason people bought Nokia in the past, the reason for its popularity, was that it was a bulky sturdy phone that was reliable and which focused on longevity.
If Nokia ever went back to their original design philosophy that made them their reputation and made them relevant, and tackled that niche, they would be successful. That means: 1. Thick phone 2. Sturdy phone 3. Quantity (lots of battery and SD cards and dual SIM, in that thicc)
This is what Nokia was when it was at its best, and this is what it should be now if it wants to be successful as a Nokia brand. The demand is there, it only requires someone to meet it.
Oliver Gray
They won't be the new Nexus devices unless they have bootloader unlocks.
Luke Green
>Is this autism
Ryan Morgan
*Finnish company >Led by former Nokia employees >Company HQ in Finland >phones designed in Finland and built in India
Hudson Ramirez
Fucking moron hmd is Finnish run by ex Nokia people
Foxconn only manufactures the phones (and like every other electronic in the existence of the earth)
You know why it can't be chink shit? Because the design doesn't make you wanna regurgitate your lunch and the rom isn't some bloated iOS knockoff
Just release the Nokia 6 in Europe already you cucks
Justin Powell
>and built in India
Worse than chink shit then
Michael Nelson
Release in May is what I keep hearing. I'll probably sell my Moto G5 for a Nokia 5 or 6 then.
Lincoln Walker
It's not even up for pre-order at any retailers yet. You can only pre-order the meme phone 3310 here in Sweden.
Andrew Taylor
Even Apple is starting to manufacture iPhones in India
Nicholas Anderson
If Nokia releases a thicc smartphone with over 6000mha of batteries in it, i'll gift my LG away instantly and buy it.
Evan Butler
>Will Nokia make Android great again? Only if it has solid custom ROM support, I got a Oneplus 3 because of the custom ROM support but I'd buy a Nokia in a heartbeat because I want a smaller screen phone and I don't give a shit about having the latest and greatest specs.
Isaac Bell
For me, the selling point could be the fact that the Android on the new Nokia smartphones is free from Google shit. But apparently they are partnering with Google to bring this shit to their devices.
Still, imo if they make sturdy phones with good batteries, they could gain a decent position in the market.
Landon Brown
Android is already great, but i hope Nokia will produce good hardware to make it even a better solution for mobile
Oliver Rodriguez
>we want the Nexus audience >hardware buttons How can you fuck it up so fundamentally?
Isaac Perry
>Only if it has solid custom ROM support Welcome to 2017, nobody gives a fuck about custom ROMs anymore. Even just rooting is uncommon these days.
Nathaniel Bailey
And I should give a shit about what's common or not... why, exactly?
Ryder Hall
Disable them then you sperg nigger. I happen to like them.
Nolan Parker
Why wouldn't you have hardware buttons? It's much better than having software buttons that takes up screen real estate. The Oneplus 3 does it the best, just have two small dots where the hardware buttons are and you can choose between on screen or hardware buttons and reconfigure the hardware buttons however you like.
Ryder Torres
what isn't great is how short the software support is with android phones. Most phones only get 0-1 major version updates. And the manufacturers take months to release the update for their phones. Nougat was released on August 2016 and many phones are only just recently beginning to receive it.
Meanwhile Apple is still updating the iPhone 5 from 2012
Angel Jackson
And how many people do you think give a shit about the "pure Android experience" outside of some autists on tech enthusiast websites?
Jackson Harris
You said that Nokia had to cater to customfags to succeed, which is factually wrong because Android users give less and less of a shit about it.
Chase Sanders
The fingerprint reader is front-mounted so might as well have hardware buttons when there's space for them on the bezel. That's what Motorola should have done. Makes no sense to have onscreen buttons taking screen estate and with the FP reader making the bezels thicker. Worst of both worlds.
Parker Wright
With how popular Oneplus phones are, no, not really. No shit it's going to be less and less popular when there's only one company that doesn't actively try to fuck people over for wanting to have full control over their phone.
Ryan Davis
I can agree with the fact that if you're gonna be dumb enough to put the fingerprint reader on the front you might as well go balls deep with hardware button but it's still dumb. Only phone that does it right is Huawei's P10. There's only a front-mounter fingerprint reader but no hardware keys at all. The back/home/recent functionality is accessed by holding or swiping the fingerprint sensor. I'd buy it if Huawei's rom wasn't so fucking horrible.
Owen Ortiz
Oneplus phones aren't as popular as you're implying, and whatever popularity they have comes only from the pricing.
Jose Gray
>>stock Android >>fast updates >what is Wileyfox
Grayson Perry
>fast updates has any of the Wileyfox phones received Nougat yet?
Jackson Bailey
>EsPOO >phones built in India
What did they mean by this?
Leo Cruz
after they've laid off everybody I'm sure they'll come up with something chinky
Juan Young
FUCK YEAH
THANK YOU BASED FINLAND
Aaron Evans
For indian market and even that's because they wanted wring back indian middle class from the tyranny of Xiaomeme and Oneplus
It won't be exported. Even if they are it's only going to be for that particular region (other shitholes like Pakistan and Bangladesh)
Wyatt Walker
#9 takes it in the ass and enjoys it
Isaiah Rogers
Polina is the only cute one
Isaiah Thomas
Why are shills so eager to create the false impression that HMD is not a Finnish company?
What do they fear?
Jayden Scott
She's Russian by her name
Jack Gray
is that why they have huge bezels?
Alexander Bennett
What the fuck is this retard talking abiut?Y Nexus 6p is the best phone I've ever owned
Ethan Murphy
:3
William Long
It's also the last Nexus phone
Xavier Cox
>Nokia 6 costs almost the same as Oneplus 3 here, it's durability is it's main selling point?
Hunter Walker
Official retail prices will be Nokia 3 - 139€ Nokia 5 - 189€ Nokia 6 - 229€ Nokia 6 Arte Black - 299€
Robert Davis
There is no such thing as "russian name", it's slavic name, furthermore russians are mongols basically.
Jacob Lewis
no news on the nokia 8 and 9?
Anthony Brooks
>229€
sadly, it costs around 360€ here
Carson Long
There's 2 kinds of smartphones i would expect from the old true-to-its-roots Nokia to make: 1. A fat sturdy motherfucker which gives a middle finger to the thin fad and gives me 2 batteries (or 1 extra thick battery) in it. 2. The same as the above, but with a slide-out keyboard.
Gabriel Moore
And both run latest Sailfish.
Gavin Diaz
That's because the only place the phone has been officially released so far is China. Any phone on sale outside China has been imported by resellers.
Zachary Young
>NINETEEN SCREWS >that sexy metal plate inside the phone
Lucas Bell
they don't want to go bankrupt again.
Henry Martinez
>Android >free from Google shit
Sebastian Edwards
just give me a stock android without bloatware, 5"-ish OLED display, decent 14nm processor like snapdragon 625, enough RAM, enough battery life, USB-C, SD-card slot and I'm sold
Mason Ramirez
wtf HTC is the best though
Joshua Hill
Moto Z Play
Nicholas Collins
>Implying Android wasn't already great on Nexus phones
They have their work cut out for them. They'll have issues preventing themselves from fucking with the UI and trying to reinvent the wheel instead of just putting stock Android on their hardware and calling it a day.
But I'd love to see Nokia Android phone was being successful
Blake Baker
THIS
I've had mine since November and I love it
Connor Nguyen
>Implying Android wasn't already great on Nexus phones
I wasn't implying that. What I meant is now that the Nexus-line of phones has been discontinued there isn't any phone that has stock Android, fast updates and competitive pricing. The only new phone that's receiving updates straight after Google releases them is the Pixel which is +$600. Even phones that have near stock android such as the Motorola and Oneplus phones take months to receive the latest update.
> just putting stock Android on their hardware and calling it a day
that's exactly what they're promising to do.
Caleb Powell
>just take up screen real estate with the huge bezels that have to accommodate hardware buttons instead.
Ian Jenkins
Why won't they remake this with modern specs?
Justin Davis
All that extra screen space from leaving out hardware buttons!
Nathan Johnson
sup
Cameron Jackson
>He doesn't want notifictaion leds button youtube.com/watch?v=1DpFHV5UY3c It's one of my favorite shit about Android, one of few legit justification for hardware button.
Julian Scott
The pixel was a retarded design, not surprising since it was HTC that designed it to look like an iPhone clone. Chinks can't help but to steal apple designs. Nexus 6p was the last great design for Google.
Lucas Hughes
this
Ayden Peterson
This.
A katillon times this.
Gabriel Watson
I have a 6P, and I love it.
Dodged a bullet by not getting the Pixel, because I my boss asked me what I wanted and I just responded "6P" because I wasn't sure what the Pixels looked like.
Hunter Baker
Will Nokia 3 be as durable as Nokia 6?
Jace Torres
>no band 12
DROPPED
Dylan Morgan
It will have B12, they're launching it in the US too.
Caleb Ortiz
not according to gsmarena, where are you seeing this?
Android doesn't work well with keyboards and people aren't willing to pay extra for a keyboard
Owen Baker
>Android doesn't work well with keyboard why's that? I've used a PC keyboard with my tablet using a USB OTG adapter and everything was working fine.
Robert Baker
>two 4gs
Noah Flores
>what is a dual sim phone
Ayden Walker
Will the Nokia 3 or 5 be an upgrade or downgrade from my Nexus 5?
Oliver Powell
the nokia phones are looking breddy gud so far, might grab one at some point in the future. I'm happy with my Mi Max atm tho and not sure if I want anything less than 6" now.
Kayden Lopez
Nah you're retarded. Actual buttons are better than silly unreliable motions.
Tyler Young
People have not dropped the idea that made in China equals chinkphone. Despite everyone bar lg and samsung doing the same.
Nathan Powell
Are you retarted? Dual SIM phones have two signal bars for each SIM. This one is obviously running on a single SIM and displaying a duplicate data indicator.
HMD is no different from the other OEMs and just couldn't keep their hands from messing with the already perfect Android status bar.
Daniel Rivera
Where can I buy one?
Jordan Foster
It's only out in China. Worldwide launch is in May.
