Apparently Nokia has released a repair friendly phone (G22) in tie-up with iFixit for original replacement parts!
Hugh Jeffreys does a tear down and verifies the claims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGM-SgfyU4
This means we can finally get a repairable smartphone in India, Since #fairphone & #pine64 devices are never coming here.
With un-lockable bootloader, It seems viable for #LineageOS & #postmarketOS hacking; Unisoc T606 chipset is bit concerning though. Any thoughts @joelselvaraj ?
@abishek_muthian Well its good that we get official spare parts. I am not sure how supported unisoc is in mainline kernel. It would have been nice if it had basic qcom soc instead. Its relatively easy to bringup. Also, 3 yrs support seems too short for a repairable device.
@joelselvaraj
> 3 yrs support seems too short for a repairable device
The problem with such devices is that they never get popular outside really niche markets. With 3 years they are at least being honest, when companies promise lifetime support and underdeliver, it's worse.
I think if this gets popular they'd be happy to extend the support period 🤷
@abishek_muthian
