Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Nokia G22: the repairable smartphone" video.

  1. Just a warning about this phone and Nokia in general so that people don't spend money to end up disappointed. Nokia was sold to Microsoft, then re-sold back to HMD Global when Microsoft finished failing with it. HMD Global is supposed to be a company that spun off Nokia Mobility, so it's supposed to be a kinda come back to origins, or so this is the story that was sold off to the press. In actuality, Nokia phones situation these days is kinda like the exact same situation that Motorola is. Motorola is an empty brand now, the company that actually develops and produces Motorola phones these days is Lenovo. Lenovo's mobile division was merged with Motorola mobility after the buyout. There are no Motorola phones anymore, it's just Lenovo phones rebranded. Lenovo made a reasonably good job in copying Motorola past IPs, much like it did with the Thinkpad brand, but make no mistake, those are Lenovo phones. For Nokia, HMD Global acquired parts of a company called FIH Mobile, which is/was a Foxconn subsidiary, to assume mobile development. You never heard about any phone branded Foxconn or FIH Mobile because it was a company that developed phones for a multitude of other brands, generic ones. So, that's the reason why you see SoCs like Unisoc Tiger, sometimes a MediaTek SoC, instead of Qualcomm or Samsung. Chances are, the Nokia G22 is simply a reworked white label phone designed and produced by Foxconn. This is why it's so cheap, and to a point repairable. You know how cheap generic low end phones from China from about 5-10 years ago still had plastic backs and replaceable batteries? That's basically what this phone probably is. This Unisoc Tiger T606 SoC is worse in several aspects when compared to a Snapdragon 835... that's Samsung Galaxy S8 or Google Pixel 2 territory. I'm trying to be generous here, because really, that Tiger T606 SoC is running on 12nm tech, whereas the other two I mentioned were already on 10nm tech... the current Snapdragon SoC tech is at 4nm. The sole advantage here is that it comes with Android 12... it's quite possible that it does not come with Android 13 simply because the OS won't run with that SoC. It's not only the low specs too... that SoC was launched back in 2021 as a mid to low end offering by Unisoc. Unisoc itself has better SoCs in Chinese branded phones, including ones that offers 5G connectivity. So, tldr version, the Nokia G22 uses a low spec SoC from a low spec lesser known brand - Unisoc, it is quite likely a re-hash of Chinese white label phone from a couple of years ago, done by a former Foxconn mobile subsidiary that is now owned by HMD Global, the current owner of the Nokia brand. Repairability is merely coincidental, seems to be on the same level of repairability of all Chinese low spec white label phones from years ago. Of course, this is not bad per se depending on what you are looking for, but it's information people should know before buying the device. I find it very deceptive that Motorola and Nokia are selling these phones now... it's more or less just a disguise to sell Chinese phones in western markets, following a different route that OnePlus did, but to the same effect.
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