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  • 17 Feb 2025

If HMD makes this model , Nokia Skyline i Buy it ! andoriginal blue yellow red colours and white

    Xenotyro, 13 Feb 2025Android 15 is now widely available for the Skyline and my f... moreThanks for the info. I tough that the annoying bug that does not apps to go full screen when gestures navigation is active, was only on mine, as i do kinde of findle with the devices a lot, like using adb to delete a lot of google stuff and well, assistent, digital wellbeing and so on.

      Android 15 is now widely available for the Skyline and my first impressions are good. In terms of user-facing features and changes there are very few, but performance is good and standby battery drain is excellent.

      In terms of minor fixes I noticed: the gesture nav bar now disappears when apps or videos are in full screen, the vibration motor is less 'buzzy' and 'spongy', and they finally enabled zoom in video mode when recording at 1x (previously you had to start recording at 2x in order to zoom 🤷‍♂️).

      Focus Peaking is now only available in the Pro camera settings for some unknown reason, and there is a Codec preferences menu for audio which has some old Material UI. This menu is already available on the HMD Fusion.

        angry bird, 08 Feb 2025HMD learn from Nothing company ,,, new ones in market doing... moreWell, at least that's true. They actually produce good devices that work well for a long time. I find that their biggest problem is, that most of their new devices start with a bit to many bugs, and then improve in time. The reason here could be saving some money? First users being the testers...just a fealing. Nokia x30 works without issues after more then 2 years of usage, installing and uninstalling 1000s of apps, you won't get that performance without factory reset from any of the most of android manufacturers. Of course it also depends of what you install....

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          • 08 Feb 2025

          HMD learn from Nothing company ,,, new ones in market doing better than you,,, shame on you HMD

            Anonymous, 21 Jan 2025I had to Google this and yes this is true! WTF!! Why can�... moreSadly hmd lost some grownd instead of winning... they are not even close to the big players when it comes to pricing and manufacturing capabilities, they just can't compete at that level. If they try to sell cheap with 5 years of support, they'd probably go insolvent in about a year, if they don't raise the price. But if they do raise the price, to be able to support a device for 5 years, probably way less people then they would need to survive, would buy. Businisses do not care that much about the 50 euros extra per device, or maybe 100, as long as they get a bloatware free device with good quality calling capabilities, repairable and security updates for longer, businesses have totaly different needs in comparison to normal customers. That might be one of the reasons. Another reason would be competition and pricing again. The big players have enough money to buy in bulk, thos giving them the advantage over price, because bulk is always cheapper, the more you buy, the cheapper it gets. Also, most of the big players, like samsung or xiaomi make money with a tone of bloatware in each and every device sold, and some brands even have their own manufacturing plants cutting some costs. Add to this the fact that most of them manufactures sell other stuff as well, so their busnisses support eachother in times where maybe smartphones are receiving a downgrade in sales, which hapes often, especially now, when more and more manufactureres offer more years of support. All this factors kill small companies like hmd, sadly... they have no time to reinvent, and have no proper loophole to take advantage and attract some new users towards them. So they actively reinvent themselves while still trying to remain relevant on the market releasing devices like skyline with the best support and hardware they got at this time, with this money. Anyway the moral of the story is, hmd cannot compete with chinese companies nor with the big players, because that is just imposible to do and will kill their business, and they cannot go fairphone route because fairphone is way ahead and there is a very niche market for such devices, so hmd won't survive there either. Because they still try to find the right market for their devices, untill they do it, they just release devices to keep them alive in the process. I find repairability a very important stept forward, but well, as we can all see, people care more about bloatware and paper specs then anything else, so this too might not be the end of "reinvation" for hmd. Even tough i said i won't buy this because of the shor 3 years security support, i might actually do, because i do not want to be left with chinese manufactures vs samsung on the non-niche market of fairphones or shifphones. But well, only i won't do much to help them...

              cozmo, 14 Jan 2025you should add Nokia X30 as the best device HMD come up wit... moreSkyline could follow if it had 5 years of support, but well, they did it very lazy.

                Anonymous, 06 Jan 2025in amazon uk, Skyline pink colour selling for 292£ while... moreI rather buy any phone from respectable stores, not ali express... especially motorolas and xiaomis.

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                  • 25 Jan 2025

                  Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025u looking for a phone that u can remove the battery too eas... moreGood point! But this site unfortunately isn't concerned about Gigaset, despite being Europe-based.

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                    • 23 Jan 2025

                    u looking for a phone that u can remove the battery too easy

                    do a search about...


                    GIGASET GX4 & GX4 PRO


                    btw 265€_299€

                    of course they r rugged phones

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                      • 22 Jan 2025

                      Bill, 15 Jan 2025Have always appreciated the reviews given for various model... moreIf you like black but want to save some cash, you can purchase the pink variant and add the rugged black case as a free accessory. Depends on the country of purchase, though.

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                        • 21 Jan 2025

                        Carol-, 13 Jan 2025It turns out that there are business models for skyline and... moreI had to Google this and yes this is true! WTF!! Why can't they offer 5 yrs for normal consumers!?

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                          • 20 Jan 2025

                          Dantalian, 08 Jan 2025The phone is for people who have uses for it after the life... moreSadly, this is so true, especially in territories where this is not available. And it has also come to a point where replacing your phone after 3 years is more economical than trying to prolong an ancient hardware with no local parts avialable.

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                            • 15 Jan 2025

                            Have always appreciated the reviews given for various models and brands of cellphones given by GSMArena. The Skyline cellphone met all my needs and was ready to purchase one. The negative side was when they had over a $100.00 difference because of colors. For my own personal reasons I feel I will not be put into a spot where whoever controls the sales is going to push off drastic differences in price because of color or perhaps inventory control of what they or whomever controls it. That is total B.S. End of story simply because the color a person chooses is their choice and business practices should make a full disclosure of such drastic price differences concerning color choice. This will certainly affect a persons decision to purchase or not. 100% unwise when marketing a product. In this case I chose not to purchase because of severe bad marketing practices. Oh well...

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                              • 14 Jan 2025

                              Anonymous, 06 Jan 2025in amazon uk, Skyline pink colour selling for 292£ while... moreAnd get IMEI blocked for the rest of your life, knowing how stingy UK carriers are.

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                                • 14 Jan 2025

                                BlahBlah, 16 Aug 2024Yeah it really stand out with design choice resembling Noki... moreyou should add Nokia X30 as the best device HMD come up with.
                                since it was released its keep getting better with every update.

                                  Anonymous, 02 Jan 20252 years is Motorola territory and that's not very good... moreIt turns out that there are business models for skyline and fusion which offer 5 years of security updates, but well, are more expensive and not that easy to find, one needs to directly contact them to ask for one or find one in some obscure store.

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                                    • 11 Jan 2025

                                    Anonymous, 11 Jan 2025HMD is killing this phone with bad software update policy &... moreThe pricing is ok now, it dropped significantly and you could get it for almost half of the original price when you look carefully. With that price I would recommend the phone despite the meager software support.

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                                      • 11 Jan 2025

                                      HMD is killing this phone with bad software update policy & ridiculous pricing!

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                                        • 08 Jan 2025

                                        The phone is for people who have uses for it after the life ends and are willing to tinker with it, yes it might last longer with hardware changes but those willing to buy the next big thing will not buy it for that reason and that might not let it grow as a business, hope it grows as the idea is in a better direction but the execution will require more efforts to perfect, for now only a niche audience

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