• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    My experience with HMD ‘phones’:

    • Constant disabling/breaking of Bluetooth/Mobile Data/Wifi
    • Bricked after OS update
    • A ‘repair software’ that can only be used once (one action per activation), needs to be authorized by CS, can only be activated - and therefore used - x times per day and y times per week/month. It’s also utterly useless, only ‘fixing’ stuff temporarily. And stuff breaks more than the software can be used. That in itself sounds absurd, doesn’t it?
    • No unlockable bootloader
    • Working together with Etisalat (Arabic Cell Provider), allowing them to install spyware which led to a teenager being endangered by officials and parents tracking him down after he fled due to severe abuse and death sentence
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      2 months ago

      I’ve had two USB C ports fail on HMD phones. I like the hardware, love the vanilla android, like the value, but I’ve never had a USB C port fail on anything else. I know it’s just personal experience but it means I can’t trust getting another again.

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        I had great experiences with Moto phones - also good hardware for relatively cheap, vanilla OS with no additional apps except a few, actually useful, Moto apps.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah I’ve had Motorola phones too but the updates drove me nuts. I’m just on pixel now.

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        2 months ago

        I’ve had two USB C ports fail on HMD phones.

        Yeah, that’s what got my HMD made, Nokia branded, 7 plus. And from a search at the time this was a common problem