HMD Key is official with barebones specs and low price

02 January 2025
It's launching in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand first.

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Anonymous, 06 Jan 2025My $60 BLU R1 HD I got 9 years ago had similar specs. 9 years ago? from like 2015?? lmao

    you have to suffer, 06 Jan 2025No, avoid them at all costs.Yeah I know I am joking, I seriously wouldn't entertain the idea of an HMD phone period, the company is junk as is their phones.

      Now this is something that shouldn't exist. While the apps we use have become RAM and Storage hogs and quite unreasonably so, 2 GB RAM is just...idk, evil?

      This is exactly why so many people have poor opinion of Android phones, despite there being no iPhone at this price you just cannot buy an iPhone with such atrocities and that simply translates to better user experience. Someone who isn't interested or knows about what bare minimum specs would provide a good user experience would buy this on "price is king" basis and then immediately start hating Android.

      HMD makes on one hand the most repair friendly and thereby eco friendly device like Skyline and on the other they make these.

      I don't care how light Android One claims to be 6 GB RAM and atleast 750 Single core and 2000 multicore Geekbench 6 score equivalent performance should be a bare minimum.

      That is really not asking for much and even poor people deserve a consistent reliable user experience.

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        HMD Design Dept, 03 Jan 2025We have Nokia's IP; and reputation, and I know we coul... moreI totally agree about the e-waste and money-laundry.
        They also still pay the same person they paid to promote Nokia and gas1ight and mock its critics to do the same here.

          Deutz, 03 Jan 2025Honestly, I have some serious decisions to make will it be ... moreNo, avoid them at all costs.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 06 Jan 2025

            My $60 BLU R1 HD I got 9 years ago had similar specs.

              Vegetaholic, 05 Jan 2025I can buy Galaxy S7 or S8 for similar price put real Androi... moreYou funny, you are right about destroying part, caude they will desteoy themselves. Not that ibcare about this device.

                I can buy Galaxy S7 or S8 for similar price put real Android 14 in it and it would destroy this ewaste 🙂

                  xPandamon, 04 Jan 2025They had acceptable devices, but none that really stood out... moreWell, they mostly gave up flagships and doing wierd stuff after nokia 9 fiasco. They shifted businesses to a more friendly zone for them: usefull midrangers with no gimmicks. They also decided to not compete with chinese brands.
                  While you are right, their devices have nothing like let's say: nothing phone transparent design or the gimmick LEDs, but they are good and attention to details in design is quite impressive. Of course i am not neccesserly talking about this cheap devices. Anyway, i do not get why everyone wants only fhlagships, i can picture this thing in the hands of children, parents that buy their children iphones...well are m...s.

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                    • 05 Jan 2025

                    Nokia was disaster, but this a SUPER DISASTER
                    what are these bezels? 8 and 5 MP camera? Aslo they wrote "AI CAMERA" there. What kind of waste is this?

                      Carol-, 03 Jan 2025"Another trash" is far fatched. They ahad and hav... moreThey had acceptable devices, but none that really stood out. The majority is just mediocre at best

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                        • 04 Jan 2025

                        Anonymous, 04 Jan 2025We need to have HMD CEO Luigi'ed. Stop creating waste!We need the whole 1% Luigi'ed.

                          Just buy used phone if £59 is everything you have.

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                            • 04 Jan 2025

                            We need to have HMD CEO Luigi'ed. Stop creating waste!

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                              • 04 Jan 2025

                              I don't understand who would buy this... It you can't afford more you'll be better with a second hand device at the same price

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                                • 04 Jan 2025

                                Do they... Sell these?

                                  HMD Design Dept, 03 Jan 2025We have Nokia's IP; and reputation, and I know we coul... moreThe best part about the Skyline’s repairability is that its two main elements, the outer screw and the battery pull tabs, can be replicated on smaller phones. But nooo, according to HMD the best thing to make is ewaste

                                    Straight to the garbage

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 03 Jan 2025

                                      Who buys these Android Go phones? You can buy a junk phone with 4GB of RAM and full Android for a really cheap price.

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                                        • 03 Jan 2025

                                        google should eliminate android go at all and make some basic requirement like 4 gb of ram to running future versions of android at all,such a low end phone like this one is good for nothing,an e-waste

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