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HMD Global, smartphones and tablets from Finland. They are the ones that were behind the Nokia phones

www.hmd.com We're HMD, makers of Android™ smartphones and feature phones.

Whether you need a phone with a big battery, with great cameras, or a phone that you can repair at home, we've got all bases covered at the HMD online shop.

HMD Global is a smartphone and tablet company that surged from Nokia and now has smartphones and tablets. They outsource the manufacture mainly to China and India, but they are now starting to maufacture its 5G models in Europe: https://www.hmd.com/en_ae/press/hmd-begins-manufacturing-5g-smartphones-in-europe

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Only 2 OS updates and 3 years of security updates is too little for a phone marketed as repairable.
- Fuck repairable. My Nokia 6 had a broken USB-Port but because it had a small tear in the display glass it couldn't be repaired. Anyone glueing on the display and leaving that as the only possible way to open the phone does not have a repairable product.

So, it's Nokia. Sensible to rebrand I suppose.
- It's not.
  It's a Chinese corporation wearing the dead skin of the former Nokia.
  They've lost the engineers and definitely with the change in ownership they've lost the values once may have had.
  Nokia used to manufacture in Salo, a city some 100km from Helsinki. I was working at a taxi dispatch center back then. Literally almost every 10 calls would have a taxi ordered to Nokia Visitor Centre. Sometimes like a third of the calls during busy hours.
  Fast forward three years the manufacture has largely moved and the city is in trouble. Fast forward another ten to now and the city is dead. No work, no housing market nothing sells, stores dead. Unemployment was 20% in 2015.
  I don't believe it's in any ways equivalent to the former Nokia.

They were one of the few left that included headphone jacks. Unfortunately, they've stopped with that, which is a dealbreaker for me.

I thought HMD Global was a Chinese company, that had “rented” the brand “Nokia” from the actual Nokia company?
Edit: I am remembering completely wrong
- HMD are Finnish. I think their phones are assembled in China but that's the case for many smartphones (e.g. iPhones).
  However I noticed that some HMD phones use Unisoc CPUs, and Unisoc are Chinese. I don't know how much that matters. Other HMD phones use Qualcomm CPUs - Qualcomm are American.
- They indeed got the license from Nokia, but are Finnish themselves too
  
  That’s quite interesting, I also assumed they were Chinese. Them being EU based should be a bigger deal
- I I recall well, while Finnish, most of the R&D, and of course the whole manufacturing process, was done in China. That how they got their "Chinese" reputation.
  I think it is undeserved, but it is also true that their smartphone got some annoying problems, like a very fragile usb-c port on my now defunct Nokia 8.1.

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