Bye-bye Nokia? HMD delists Nokia smartphones across European markets
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- 10 Oct 2024
chronotee, 07 Oct 2024My guess is it's a name separation for the backend net... moreYour guess is wrong, as NOKIA and HMD are twodifferent companies. HMD licensed nokia name and patents to make smartphones and other electronics for 10 years, from 2017 to 2027. NOKIA decided to stop licensing it's brand and pull out from b2c businisses, that is why hmd needs to switch.
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- chronotee
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- 07 Oct 2024
My guess is it's a name separation for the backend network infrastructure business and frontend mobile device business
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- 05 Oct 2024
Silthice, 05 Oct 2024Look like it is time for Nokia to take back its brand and r... moreSymbian, MeeGo, Maemo, Meltemi, Asha Platform, S40, etc. are all dead operating systems now, along with the Nokia brand. Any attempt to revive Nokia brand with these OS or even with Android would be unsuccessful.
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- 05 Oct 2024
Minu, 05 Oct 2024You're welcome! Not just "tax laws", it... moresounds a lot like my own country haha #thirdworldstruggle.
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- 05 Oct 2024
jiyen235, 05 Oct 2024omg now it all makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. I li... moreYou're welcome!
Not just "tax laws", it's that politicians and custom officers charge bribes, commissions and abysmal customs charges from importers as "taxes" (electronic items get a minimum tax percentage of 75%, while vehicles get a minimum tax percentage of 300%). The most atrocious part is that they scrape the hard-earned money out of innocent people as taxes, to spend on luxury vehicles, items etc and appointing henchmen for the simplest of tasks like opening doors when they arrive, etc. Unfortunately, this is how our country became a breeding ground of corruption.
If bringing up tax laws made sense, then the average person here would live their life happily without struggling with their daily expenses. This is why most people in our country are extremely cautious of their buying decisions.
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- 05 Oct 2024
Minu, 05 Oct 2024The alternative phones are simply priced competitively in y... moreomg now it all makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. I live in asia so ig it makes sense why asian brands are so well priced here but the nothing phone 2a is amazingly priced where i live as well so i can't put my finger on why the HMD phones are so poorly priced here but well priced in your country. favorable tax laws perhaps?
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- 05 Oct 2024
jiyen235, 05 Oct 2024the Nothing/Realme/Vivo phones destroy these phones in term... moreThe alternative phones are simply priced competitively in your country. Here in our country, only one conglomerate under a businessman-turned-politician is responsible for the official imports of electronic items, to be sold under different vendors.
For the price of a Realme C11 from 2011 or a Redmi 9A, people can purchase 3 Nokia C32 phones. For the price of a base model Galaxy A04, Vivo Y16 or a Moto E13, people can purchase 2 or more Nokia G11 Plus phones. Same thing with computer accessories, where a low-end Kingston SSD costs as much as a Synergy Enterprise SSD in other markets.
Sounds completely tone-deaf to anybody living outside our market, but that's how it is in here.
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- Silthice
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- 05 Oct 2024
Look like it is time for Nokia to take back its brand and resurrect MeeGo Harmattan and Meltemi OS just like Harmony OS. The original OS with Swipe UI that I miss so much maybe can work with Jolla to accelerate the development. The horror of how N9 and MeeGo Harmattan was stabbed by Lumia/WP/WM during Elop era was extremely terrible.
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- 05 Oct 2024
Minu, 05 Oct 2024"Mediocre", only because their target market is e... morethe Nothing/Realme/Vivo phones destroy these phones in terms of value but since these phones are better for repair, they have SOME value at least, so that's why instead of calling them bad im calling them mediocre.
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- 05 Oct 2024
gs4u, 02 Oct 2024They are the only vendor who gives pure android phones. No ... moreAgreed. Even Motorola that advertises their skin as "pure" is simply using a reskinned FunTouch OS. Not a surprise why Vivo and Lenovo depend on the same software development team.
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- 05 Oct 2024
jiyen235, 02 Oct 2024yeah i'd rather have them instead of scamsung, but the... more"Mediocre", only because their target market is essentially consumers who either can't afford top flagships or those concerned with their buying decisions. Same with the scarce resources, unlike Lenovo, Apple and Samsung depending on an endless ODM supply chain.
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- brighton59
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- 04 Oct 2024
I'm happy with my Nokia c21plus. But like all mobile phones. It has it's blips. Even top range mobile's ,ie: iPhones, Samsung etc. I have an EE Hawk, 6 years old. But it works brilliantly. Only problem is the battery life is crap. But it was the same, when I bought it. We didn't have all the apps, we have now. 🤨
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- 03 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 30 Sep 2024Nokia is already dead.Right,
The real Nokia started dying when that Elop guy was made Director of Nokia. He killed it on behalf of USA.
Today, USA reaffirms its data domination.
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- 02 Oct 2024
gs4u, 02 Oct 2024Don't roast. They actually good decent maker only.yeah i'd rather have them instead of scamsung, but they're so mediocre i just thought it was funny to say that lol
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- 02 Oct 2024
Rusty, 30 Sep 2024Oneplus is a solid choiceOne plus don't sell lower end phones
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- 02 Oct 2024
Why don't they keep selling the feature phones? They've only released two HMD-branded feature phones.
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- 02 Oct 2024
lol, 30 Sep 2024at this point, HMD should collaborate with jolla and produc... moreU mean.. Both joining together to form a graveyard for them. Who in the blue hell uses sailfish os. Its good but who uses.
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- 02 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 30 Sep 2024HMD will disappear eventuallyThey are the only vendor who gives pure android phones. No other options. And Nokia was alive in our hands for past 10 years just because of efforts by hmd.
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- 02 Oct 2024
HorriblyMadeDevices, 30 Sep 2024HMD is nothing but a brand parasite, just like Microsoft. ... moreThey did better than Microsoft. Microsoft just killed meego, symbian, s40, asha os and used nokia for windows phone promotion and failed themselves in the process. They did all four themselves and not consumer point of view. But hmd makes nokia phones to sell to consumers and no other shitty thoughts like microsoft had
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- 02 Oct 2024
jiyen235, 30 Sep 2024hmd should delist themselves too lmaoDon't roast. They actually good decent maker only.