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HMD Global is a smartphone and tablet company that surged from Nokia and now has smartphones and tablets. They outsource the manufacture mainly to China and India, but they are now starting to maufacture its 5G models in Europe: https://www.hmd.com/en_ae/press/hmd-begins-manufacturing-5g-smartphones-in-europe

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[โ€“] evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does the โ€œBuy Europeanโ€ community disregard software?

Nokia briefly had a couple devices with an apparently FOSS platform: Maemo, IIRC. Then they ditched that to align with Microsoft. And their recent smartphones are apparently based on Googleโ€™s Android. Thatโ€™s not European.

If you must have an Android for some strange reason, then I suppose Nokia or Wiko would be as close as you can get to European. But fuck Android. Itโ€™s proprietary and designed for obsolescence.

[โ€“] toothpick@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Only 2 OS updates and 3 years of security updates is too little for a phone marketed as repairable.