HMD Skyline review
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- Anonymous
- r3y
- 06 Aug 2024
*DIY...Bruh is it that hard?...Do It Yourself
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- Xenotyro
- 3HW
- 06 Aug 2024
Ottonis, 06 Aug 2024You are making a good point. 800 nits of brightness were co... moreThe review has actually been updated and the brightness reading is now over 1000 nits.
That being said, it's always sensible to question the fads of the day such as absurd marketed brightness levels which turn out to only be for a tiny sliver of the screen when viewing HDR content and can be sustained for short periods only.
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- Anonymous
- vaQ
- 06 Aug 2024
Ugly. I thought you were reviewing its box
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- Anonymous
- sXH
- 06 Aug 2024
"The HMD Skyline relies on a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2"..."This platform is not as powerful as the 7+ Gen 2 or even the original 7 Gen 1."
And yet your own benchmarks show it's better than the 7 gen 1 in all but the Wildlife Extreme 2160p, where it is close enough to make no difference. In most of your benchmarks it's actually close to the 7 gen 3.
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- JH
- SvX
- 06 Aug 2024
This is the first ever Android with magnetic qi2, abd none of the reviews so far says a single word about magnets' strength, the fact that the charging coil is not in the device's centre and how it affects landscape view stability without rotation when magnetically mounted in the car? Looks like I'm the only one who is interested in this for qi2 and nobody else cares ))
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- Anonymous
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- 06 Aug 2024
Carol-, 06 Aug 2024The funny part is that not a long time ago, smartphone flag... moreGalaxy S10 series was first Samsung devices to cross the 650 nits level.
Something old iphones and xperia ( z3/4) had passed years before.
There was never any " I cannot use outdoors".
Then some brands started to push it instead of making other parts of phones better as marking trick. Suddenly ppl here and Reddit are unable to use phone outside home unless entire screen is over 1200 nits .
Even funnier is the gang " hey sony, nobody watches movies on phones" are same people that now justify high brightness because HDR content. What are they watching that needs HDR?
Everything that Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi or OnePlus ignore is called "gimmick", but turns into " must have" after they adopt.
U11 was bashed for the squeeze to do this and that, but pixel 2 praised for having same functionality but with less options.
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- Boldpixel
- fnG
- 06 Aug 2024
The camera on this is very disappointing. I think even the xperia 10 VI gets better pics.
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- Boldpixel
- fnG
- 06 Aug 2024
Just my opinion, 06 Aug 2024HMD - Haha Mid DeviceHighly Mediocre Device 😄
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- xcv
- nUk
- 06 Aug 2024
Jab, 06 Aug 2024No jack (gsmarena finally corrected it), no buy. Even with ... moreRealme 12+ has horrendous 4G bands coverage!
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- Anonymous
- K1L
- 06 Aug 2024
Is HMD making toys or something? Mediocre specs, poor battery endurance, poor software support. Does HMD really think that easy repair and Nokia Lumia looks are enough to appeal to the mass audience? Nope! If HMD not taking this seriously, HMD will be next in line to exit smartphone market after Nokia, LG, HTC and Blackberry.
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- Anonymous
- vb5
- 06 Aug 2024
DYI
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- Anonymous
- tZj
- 06 Aug 2024
Anonymous, 06 Aug 2024It's not DYI is DIY. The review wasn't as bad ... moreDYI = Do Yourself In. Things took a whole lot darker turn
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- Anonymous
- sXH
- 06 Aug 2024
"especially with the whole easy DYI repairability angle, which suggest the phone courld stay in operation longer than usual"
Isn't it to comply with upcoming EU repairability rules ?
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- Anonymous
- sXH
- 06 Aug 2024
Do Yourself It says I
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- Anonymous
- AZY
- 06 Aug 2024
I could like the device and the reparability is something that other Oem´s should follow. Still with 3 year OS support.....It´s hard to justify the asking price..
300-400€ would certainly be more suited to a new brand that just hit the market. Many will say that it existed under Nokia, but the majority won´t know, and a new brand means start from scratch
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- Ottonis
- JHh
- 06 Aug 2024
Carol-, 06 Aug 2024The funny part is that not a long time ago, smartphone flag... moreYou are making a good point. 800 nits of brightness were considered as very good if not excellent value just a few years ago. I totally forgot that.
And if course, with 800 nits, legibility is fine even when it's bright daylight.
Thanks for pointing this out.
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- Pietro
- 3EB
- 06 Aug 2024
Wonderful phone sof ar, all 3 of our HMD skyline doing so great people often ask me what phone I have cause they are not used to such different design it’s quite fun to show it off to others. Of course mine black is less noticeable than my wife and daughter pink one but still looking good sadly no white otherwise l had chose the white.
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- Anonymous
- pKL
- 06 Aug 2024
It's not DYI is DIY.
The review wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The camera is surprisingly good, but sub par battery life and performance isn't great and nor is the update policy. Yes you can refresh the battery I suppose which is good but it's still too pricey. The Nothing phone 2a blows this out the water, A55, Nord 4and you can get Pixels for less. It's just not a competitive option as much as I wanted it to be.
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- AnonD-1040250
- S3x
- 06 Aug 2024
Nothing like Lumia devices in fact it's just an insult, just a Pulse design with clip on corners.
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- Carol-
- mJ}
- 06 Aug 2024
Claudesp33d, 06 Aug 2024I would never buy hmd again, my experience with nokia 6.2 w... moreMy brother has the nokia 7.2 and it works pretty much the same as in the beginning, it now pushes 5 years, of usage. So what where you saying?