i probably have Tested nearly 100 cheap phones over the past 9 years, and I've never had to worry about bringing a backup in case things go wrong. Budget phones are usually slow but work well enough. But when I took the HMD Fusion on a short trip to another state I immediately regretted not bringing an extra smartphone.
The first sample of this Android phone froze and restarted on the way to the airport. Then, further adding to my panic, it would boot to the home screen but my passcode wouldn't work. “The passcode is incorrect.” What? Thankfully, a forced restart will bring it back to normal. However, throughout the weekend of my friend's wedding in Kentucky, the Fusion would constantly restart itself. refused to even launch it Loose-Although it must have been a blessing because work was absent from my mind the whole time.
HMD said it couldn't replicate my issues, so the company sent me another unit. This is absolutely fine. It's hard to suddenly change gears after being so disappointed on this black monolith, but it's a good phone for $300. It also has a trick up its sleeve that no other phone has today: mods.
return of modular phones
HMD might not be a name you are familiar with, so in short it is a Finnish company that has licensed the Nokia brand to develop Nokia phones. android smartphone And feature phones (aka dumb phones). It started doing this in 2017, but earlier this year, the company announced that it will still make Nokia phones, but it also plans to produce phones under its own name (which, by the way, is Human Mobile Devices. is for). Its feature phone business also continues to grow with big collaborations like boring phone And barbie phone,
The HMD Fusion is one of those devices (was there too). horizon And stretchIt has a focus on repairability – just remove a handful of screws and you can replace many parts, from the battery to the screen, and the company plans to carry these parts for up to 7 years. (Most of this is needed to follow the upcoming law in the european union,
But what does this mean? In fact The pogo pins on the back are visible separately. In fact, the entire back of the phone looks as if it is incomplete. This is because you can attach “outfits”, as HMD calls them. in modular components Different color backing can change the look of the phone. They do not stick magnetically iPhone and MagSafeInstead, these outfits are like cases, and pogo pins transfer not only power but also data.
Photograph: Julian Chokkattu