Weekly poll: is the HMD Skyline your next phone?

21 July 2024
Nokia N9 fans took notice, the hot pink colorway drew even more attention. And it's easy to repair too? Unfortunately, there is a catch.

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Minu, 21 Jul 2024Nokia's software is well-optimized for the low end har... moreHow many flagship samsung,pixel or Motorola phones have you used in your life that you're making a comment like this

    The specs and software support for this price are simply deal breakers.
    And the fact that you can get a realme GT 6T or even the oneplus nord 4 at similar price to this.
    Is anyone actually going to skip those great offerings and go for this,just for the sake of repairability ,when you just have to slap a case and screen protector to avoid breaking your phone, so that you won't need repairability

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      • 21 Jul 2024

      Specs are great but chipset would have been better. 7300/7350/7200 Ultra or 7s Gen 3/7 Gen 3/7+ Gen 2 would have been better chipset cuz 7s Gen 2 is basically 6+ Gen 1 or Overclocked 6 Gen 1 with downgrade LPDDR5 Ram instead of LPDDR5X Ram which is 2022 SoC 2 years old. So, same ISP not good for this price range.

        PureOS, 21 Jul 2024It was great phone.You living under a rock?

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          • 21 Jul 2024

          Anonymous, 21 Jul 2024Dimensity 7300 could be an option but from one of the emplo... moreYeah maybe next year a phone with d7400 from them.

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            • 21 Jul 2024

            rizki1, 21 Jul 2024It's been a long time, sorry, I don't remember th... moreThat's completely fine. Everybody makes mistakes. 😊

              Anonymous, 21 Jul 2024Poco X3 pro had great pricing, and it was a bad phone, a re... moreIt was great phone.

                Minu, 21 Jul 2024Why did you even make that comparison in the first place, b... moreIt's been a long time, sorry, I don't remember that.. if I made a mistake, forgive me.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • PIA
                  • 21 Jul 2024

                  Dimensity 7300 could be an option but from one of the employee's tweet, my guess is this phone was cooked when HMD barely released anything after X30. I recall last year they bothered with G42 and Europe version of XR21

                  For me this is an all rounder phone that HMD used to release back in 2017. That was the time they don't even bother disclosing Corning level but my Nokia 5 was tough as heck. Now I'm wondering if I should get black back and combine it with cyan/yellow/pink frame

                    Minu, 21 Jul 2024Nokia's software is well-optimized for the low end har... moreThat's really nice. I wish more companies cared about the performance of their software like they do. A dated 22nm Unisoc chip working without hiccups and hitches in framerate, on the latest Android version? Sign me up! This should be the norm, but unfortunately it isn't.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • PIA
                      • 21 Jul 2024

                      Someone got this phone and did some camera test. auto mode is pretty impressive considering HMD tends to botched that up on 9PV, 8.3 and X30. I'm waiting for the same person to do manual capture, which 8.3, 9PV and 8.3 excels at. Hopefully the new camera app ditched the Lumia dial on pro control as it's pretty hard to use on sensors with granular option

                      I'm wondering if HMD bothers with SD Express support on microSD slot since they bothered to get Qi2. Maybe you guys can test it. Heard OZO Playback got extra settings too, which is neat

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                        rizki1, 21 Jul 2024it's true that Nokia costs twice as much as Redmi but ... moreWhy did you even make that comparison in the first place, back in the day?
                        And the Nokia 6 was nearly 4 years old when the Note 8 was introduced.
                        The Nokia 5.3 that used to compete with the Redmi Note 8 had the same chipset, and was much cheaper in most countries.

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                          • 21 Jul 2024

                          Darth Caesium, 21 Jul 2024And more often than not, unless they use a Unisoc (and the ... moreNokia's software is well-optimized for the low end hardware though.
                          I've experienced this with my parents' Nokia C32 phones. HMD has optimized full Android 14 to work well with a rather dated 22nm Unisoc processor, whereas a typical Samsung, Xiaomi or other phones at this price basically lags, stutters and freezes. The performance is better on G series Unisoc phones, given that they have UFS storage with decent chipsets.

                          I'm yet to see any non-HMD low end working well for day to day use. Even Motorola devices with the rebranded FunTouch UI and Pixel icons, tend to be unusable at times.

                            Minu, 21 Jul 2024Let's not forget how the earlier devices were a financ... moreit's true that Nokia costs twice as much as Redmi but how is it the same chipset? Nokia 6 uses 430 and Redmi Note 8 uses 665.

                              Minu, 21 Jul 2024"Bad" phones are simply low ends.And more often than not, unless they use a Unisoc (and the more recent Unisoc chips are at least not that bad) or a Snapdragon 680, they're not laggy, at least on paper. The key issue here with snappiness nowadays is almost always down to unoptimised, laggy UI. I think that unless you're looking at the sub-$150 market, hardware is almost never the reason why this happens, though I have also seen a few very good phones at this price range that don't have insufficient hardware as well.

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 21 Jul 2024

                                The Pixel 8a at the same price is also Gorilla Glass 3.

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                                  Darth Caesium, 21 Jul 2024It seems very interesting actually. The key thing that dete... moreEspecially given that this phone is a much better purchase than similarly-priced rivals that compromise on other areas (Oppo Reno12, Xperia 10 VI, OnePlus Nord 4 etc), I think they're doing a much better job with this phone.

                                  At the same time, I'd like to see a Nokia-branded alternative from HMD, but fixing upon the compromises of this phone.

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                                    • 21 Jul 2024

                                    rizki1, 21 Jul 2024why not make it again like before? they were good in 2017 w... moreLet's not forget how the earlier devices were a financial burden for Foxconn, since the bill of materials alone is higher than a flagship phone.

                                    Apart from that, they were excellent phones. Also, I remember you complaining about how the Nokia 6 was twice the price of a Redmi Note 8 with the same chipset back then.

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                                      • 21 Jul 2024

                                      HatingEqually, 21 Jul 2024There's no bad phone, only bad pricing."Bad" phones are simply low ends.

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                                        • 21 Jul 2024

                                        HatingEqually, 21 Jul 2024There's no bad phone, only bad pricing.Poco X3 pro had great pricing, and it was a bad phone, a really bad one

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