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What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
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I'm seriously considering buying a Nokia smart phone to use with LineageOS. I'm a big fan of shitty android phones anyway.
a cheap microsoft phone isn't a nokia
Who said anything about Microsoft
Pretty sure they're referring to the sale of Nokia's phone division to Microsoft in the mid-2010s. It's since been bought back and is in the process of renaming to HMD.
Didn't it get resold again to a Chinese firm? Please tell me they're independent again.
Sort of. HMD licenses the Nokia name from the broader Nokia business and kept a lot of the old c-suite. Manufacturing is owned by a subsidiary of Foxconn.
ok, that's cool. and their stance on repair ability means if they make a reasonably sized smart phone before I need a new one I'll be getting one, and one of the stupid tablet sized ones anyway if not.
LineageOS wouldn't run on a real nokia unless you're talking about the nokia branded microsoft phones and they're more like a 3d printed gun than an AK-47.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#nokia
I think the argument still is, that those aren’t „real“ Nokias. At the very least they’re not the same Nokia that built the 3310, as that Nokia isn’t in the consumer electronics market anymore.
Ah I see. That's a bummer
Just be aware their newer phones are hot shit. It's the older phones that got the reputation for durability.
Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.