HMD Skyline review - Easily repairable mid-range phone with an iconic look
HMD Skyline review - Easily repairable mid-range phone with an iconic look
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Pros
- attractive and high-quality chassis
- self-repairable
- fast WLAN
- many mobile phone frequencies
- eSIM support
- freely assignable button
- 4K video recording
- wireless charging
- hardly any throttling under load
Cons
- PWM flickering
- Self* repair requires special tools
- only 2 OS updates promised
- Screen could be brighter and more color accurate
- comparatively slow SoC
- high price
- quite heavy
-make repairable phone -2 updates
2 OS updates and 3 years of security patches alongside average power consumption, and average materials. It received 52% sustainability score.
All in all. This is a poor man's Fairphone.
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