The Nokia G310 is releasing next week.

HMD is bringing its repairable phone initiative to the US with the Nokia G310, a $186 smartphone that’ll be available from T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile on August 24th. This is technically the third smartphone HMD has released with a design that makes it easier to replace commonly broken components like its battery and display, but its previous Nokia G22 and Nokia G42 were focused on European markets.

As with its previous repairable phones, HMD is partnering with iFixit to supply spare parts and repair guides for the G310.

  •  golli   ( @golli@lemm.ee ) English
    11•1 year ago

    I can’t seem to find an answer for this particular phone, but they usually seem to only provide 2 major android versions and another year of security updates.

    To me that kind of defeats many of the upsides this repairability provides.

    •  LufyCZ   ( @LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
      3•1 year ago

      So they can push the screen up as much as they can.

      It has a chin because that’s where the cables are, and afaik manufacturing the display so that this doesn’t have to be done is more expensive.

      And if you turn it around (and put the chin on top), you can get a weird scrolling effect, some Oneplus phones had it

    •  Papamousse   ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English
      3•1 year ago

      At first I was also obsessed with a 3.5mm audio jack, then I bought a phone with only USB-C, and guess what, a simple adapter that was in the box, or available for $1 in dollar store, basically does the job. The USB-C plug has 4 wires for gnd/left/right/mic and I can plug any 3.5mm headset on my phone. The adapter is on my headphone for months and it makes no difference me plugging an audio jack or a usb-c plug.

  •  AutoTL;DR   ( @autotldr@lemmings.world ) BEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    This is technically the third smartphone HMD has released with a design that makes it easier to replace commonly broken components like its battery and display, but its previous Nokia G22 and Nokia G42 were focused on European markets.

    The company’s press release doesn’t offer too many details on how exactly the phone is easy to repair, but previous repairable Nokia-branded handsets have included design features like rear cases that can be unclipped by hand to reveal easily accessible screws and batteries that can be lifted out using pull tabs (though they’re not fully user-removable like Nokia feature phones of old).

    Beyond its repairable element, the Nokia G310 has the specs of a relatively entry-level smartphone.

    Around front there’s a 6.56-inch display with a limited 720p resolution, but at least it offers a relatively snappy 90Hz refresh rate.

    On the back there’s technically a triple-camera setup, but beyond the main 50-megapixel camera the two additional sensors for depth and macro are only 2 megapixels in resolution.

    The phone has an 8-megapixel selfie camera, and relies on a side-mounted fingerprint sensor for biometric security.

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