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.
I’d just put Graphene or Lineage on it anyway.
HMD still doesn’t allow bootloader unlocking (officially) so even if you wanted to, you couldn’t.
I mean it doesn’t really matter how official it is so long as it’s doable.
That’s just not true. Convenience and support matter.
That’s definitely an option. But to me that is somewhat of the equivalent to an easily removable battery vs having to fight through a bunch of glue first.
Yes you can definitely do it, but it just makes things less accessible.
Graphene only supports Pixel devices