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My next phone will be a Nokia, having exclusively bought Nexus devices since the Galaxy Nexus. Google's last few phones have been plagued with problems, and t
by petepete 9y ago
My next phone will be a Nokia, having exclusively bought Nexus devices since the Galaxy Nexus.
Google's last few phones have been plagued with problems, and them withholding software from their niche hardcore fans was the last straw.
If only Nokia had got in on the Android action earlier and realised that Symbian/Ovi wasn't up to it.
- Nokinside 9y agoI bought Nokia 3 when it came out because I needed a new phone and I just need a basic phone. I didn't do any deep feature comparison but I like it. 1. It's solid Android phone. 2. It's vanilla Android with frequent updates. No crapware and up to date.
- thinkloop 9y ago#2 is 90% of my requirements
- gautamnarula 9y agoVanilla Android with a decent camera. It is far too difficult to find a phone that meets those criteria.
- StudentStuff 9y agoHave you tried the Google Camera mod? It brings those sweet lens blur shots to other android devices, I have to say it works well on the Nokia 6.
- dingaling 9y ago3. Reasonably easy to root, with a delockable bootloader and quick-to-flash TWRP and SuperSU
- foepys 9y agoSame here, even though they are a bit more expensive than the Google branded phones from two years ago and earlier. Nokia also sounded quite sad about not being able to put project Treble on the Nokia 8. Maybe because they now have to put in more effort into putting out Android updates but I welcome their strategy of bringing those updates to the consumer very fast. Sometimes even faster than Google.
- digi_owl 9y agoLikely because Treble will insulate them from SOC shenanigans. At least until Google comes up with something that require a more recent kernel to implement, as seen with the whole ChromeOS support for Android apps...
- nextos 9y agoThey should have also stayed with Maemo. A dual Android and Maemo strategy could have been very successful. IMHO the Nokia 770-900 series is the best mobile saga in history. I would still carry out that strategy. Android for the masses, and a real Linux as a different product aimed at enthusiasts, privacy aware and governments. That market is growing. Even Apple is focusing on privacy-aware people. My Nokia N9, which is inferior to the N900 in some ways, is still ahead of many smartphones of 2018 in a few key aspects. The UI is incredibly elegant. Furthermore, its a real Linux machine, with a real terminal and a regular userland. And offline navigation is amazing. I still use it often. The hardware is beautiful in a way very few products are.
- underwater 9y agoEvery competitor that has tried to kickstart their own OS has failed (Microsoft, Palm, Mozilla, Ubuntu, etc.) Maemo might have been a great OS, but Android and iOS have sucked the oxygen out of the room. There’s no way Nokia could build and support an alternative OS just for enthusiasts.
- hsivonen 9y agoThe successor of Meego, Sailfish OS is still alive when Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS and Windows Phone have been discontinued.
- nextos 9y agoExactly. And there's still no mobile platform that gives one the same experience as a PC does in terms of separation of OS and hardware, plus the possibility of running a fully open source stack. That's why Sailfish (not fully open, though), Mer, Librem, PostmarketOS, Pyra, Neo900 and many other projects keep trying.
- vesinisa 9y agoYes, and one should recall that Android is just a Linux usermode abstraction layer. You can have Android apps within a traditional Linux distro, and Sailfish are already doing that. My understanding is it can be technically made work pretty flawlessly, but bundling the proprietary Google Play libraries is a legal hurdle. So you are stuck with an Amazon Fire OS type "Android-clone".
- jazoom 9y ago> ..., having exclusively bought Nexus devices since the Galaxy Nexus. Me too. Why will your next be a Nokia?
- emmelaich 9y agoProblems -- such as going dead or bootlooping. (not the one you're replying to, but I'm in the same boat)
- jazoom 9y agoI think you misunderstand my question. There are no new nexuses to update to and probably never will be. I'm still enjoying my 6P. My question is, why should the next one be a Nokia? Is it just the stock Android and fast updates (which is why I always went Nexus, along with price), or is there another compelling reason?
- emmelaich 9y agoPretty much just stock Android and price. But I suspect that the Nexus phones have problems because either Google are too ambitious and pushy or differences* between Google and the hardware manufacturer make things less reliable. * differences such as culture and communication.