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

Simply forward of Cellular World Congress, HMD International 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 comparable to a busted show, kaput battery or wonky charging port on the G22.

The gadget has a plastic rear casing made completely 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 could be very a lot an entry-level cellphone — 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 charge. There is a 50MP digicam, 2MP depth digicam and 2MP macro sensor. The gadget helps 20W quick charging, although it runs on Android 12 slightly than the newest OS.

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

You can choose up a G22 in grey or blue beginning on March eighth. It begins at £150 ($179) or you may snag one by way 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 cellphone with “stellar imaging algorithms” and a 50MP primary digicam. The corporate says it affords the very best picture high quality of any C-series gadget so far. 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 can be obtainable 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 steel 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, this can be a budget-friendly cellphone — it begins at £110 ($131). It is available in black and sand colorways and it is going to be obtainable within the spring.

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