The Nokia G22 is HMD’s first telephone constructed with repairability in thoughts

Simply forward of Cell World Congress, HMD World has introduced a trio of telephones, together with the primary one it constructed particularly with repairability in thoughts. The corporate has teamed up with iFixit to supply official restore guides and components to assist individuals repair points corresponding to a busted show, kaput battery or wonky charging port on the G22.

The gadget has a plastic rear casing made fully of recycled supplies, and comes with the promise of two years of Android updates, three years of safety patches and a three-year guarantee. The G22 may be very a lot an entry-level telephone — it has a Unisoc T606 CPU and tops out at 128GB of inside storage (although that is expandable through microSD). It has a 6.5-inch HD show with a 90Hz refresh fee. There is a 50MP digicam, 2MP depth digicam and 2MP macro sensor. The gadget helps 20W quick charging, although it runs on Android 12 fairly than the most recent OS.

The G22 embodies the drive HMD has been making to develop into extra environmentally pleasant. With different producers corresponding to , and providing official restore guides and components so customers can resolve points by themselves, it is sensible that smaller manufacturers would do the identical.

You can decide up a G22 in grey or blue beginning on March eighth. It begins at £150 ($179) or you may snag one by means of . To repair sure points, you may snap up a Match Package (i.e., the instruments) from iFixit for £5. A alternative battery will price £23, a show £45 and a charging port £19.

HMD additionally introduced the Nokia C32, an telephone with “stellar imaging algorithms” and a 50MP principal digicam. The corporate says it affords the perfect picture high quality of any C-series gadget to this point. The C32 has an octa-core, 1.6Ghz CPU, as much as 4GB of RAM and as much as 128GB of inside storage. There is a 6.5-inch HD+ show with a notch for the 8MP selfie digicam. The £130 ($155) gadget will likely be out there in charcoal, inexperienced and pink, and it’ll land within the UK this spring.

As well as, there’s the Nokia C22. Like the opposite new fashions, it has IP52 splash and mud safety, a microSD slot and (HMD claims) a battery that may run for as much as three days on a single cost. The C22 has a twin 13MP digicam and a rugged metallic chassis, together with Android 13, a 6.5-inch show and an octa-core, 1.6Ghz CPU. Inner storage tops out at 64GB. Once more, it is a budget-friendly telephone — it begins at £110 ($131). It is available in black and sand colorways and will probably be out there within the spring.

On high of all that, HMD desires to deliver manufacturing to Europe. “Within the first stage of this journey, the corporate is creating capabilities and processes to deliver 5G Nokia gadget manufacturing to Europe in 2023,” it mentioned in a press launch. The truth that the European Union is aiming to fairly than counting on components from Asia might make HMD’s plan extra viable. Making telephones in Europe primarily for a European market falls in with HMD’s environmentally pleasant mission too.