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Posted by thisislife2 1 day ago

HMD Touch 4G(www.hmd.com)
85 points | 100 commentspage 2
gmuslera 1 day ago|
Why to put front and center that chat app? I mean, is not something that makes it unique, if the app itself can run in android and iOS then it is just a chat app, with far less users than i.e. whatsapp.

At first I thought that it was an AI app, and reading more could find why that would be innovative, but no, just a chat app targeting the same phone users and the ones willing to install the app in other phone brands.

collabs 1 day ago|
My guess is because this is not an Android phone and it is important to be able to chat with Android and iPhone users. The real question is why would iPhone and Android users install this app?

https://www.hmd.com/en_in/about-hybrid-phones

Edit: Requiring Google Play login to use this express chat app is pretty stupid in my opinion. Why do apps require Google Play login? Especially a Chinese app? I am on an Android phone with Google play. I am just not signed in to Google play. I installed this app with Aurora store. The app simply throws me back to Play Store which tells me to sign in. Why?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moon.expre...

marysol5 17 hours ago||
HMD is Finnish
sim04ful 1 day ago||
I recently found my old Nokia Lumia 800.it behaved rather smoothly with the metro ui, ofcourse nothing worked aside phone calls
jeroenhd 1 day ago||
The device came out about a year ago: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-HMD-Touch-4G-is-an-all-scr...

It looks like it's still India-exclusive. I haven't heard much about it online, and with a dedicated chat app I would've expected to if it was a success. Did it bomb?

martheen 1 day ago|
A dedicated app that's only compatible with itself and only have miniscule install count means nothing. I tried downloading it and it only even support 4 countries prefix at the moment. It's also not that cheaper compared to "proper" smartphone from other brands in that area. Notebookcheck says it's launched with 3999 rupees while I see Itel Zeno 10 is just 4769 rupees. With India's unskilled labor minimum monthly wage about 20000 rupees I don't think anyone would care about the price difference.
marysol5 17 hours ago||
Reminds me of the myriad of secure encrypted apps that are available.

Problem is, unless you have people willing to jump ship, or technical friends who like to experiment. You're just chatting to yourself

nor0x 1 day ago||
the hardware design reminds me of the Nokia Lumias, a black rounded display glass within a straight squared colored unibody

https://m.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_920-pictures-4967.php

the good old days

zoom6628 1 day ago|
Reminds me a lot of my old Nokia 525 with windows. Great form factor for running and hiking. If this one got GPS I would buy it. But it's up against excellent full function phones like bluebox and veelo from China which make stunningly good small phones.
foragerdev 1 day ago||
Do it support Wifi hotspot? I will buyit instantly.
rjsw 1 day ago|
The linked page says that it can be a hotspot.
foragerdev 18 hours ago||
Then it can be very handy in terms of its usability of wifi hotspot devices. In case you want to access intenret remotely on your laptop or in your car.

And in developing countries, you have to register your phones imei and pay tax if the value of your phone is greater than certain amount. And in that cases the amount of tax is maybe 50% of the actual price of the phone. So your phone is basically a brick with camera. And you get carry a second phone, which is inconvinence. With this I can see the potential use of it. Small, simple and useful wifi hotspot device with actual ability to call like normal phone.

marysol5 17 hours ago|||
But why not just your standard Android for that?

I used to have an Android head unit in my old car, I used my phone hotspot for connectivity

foragerdev 10 hours ago||
When IMEI is blocked (for not paying the tax) SIM will not work. Let's say I have Iphone 17, it would have to 70% tax of its value to get sim working.
rjsw 16 hours ago|||
Some of HMD's KaiOS phones can be hotspots too, I have a 6300 4G that I use for that.
moondowner 1 day ago||
The front of the device in the illustrations looks like the LG Fireweb from 2013, that ran Firefox OS. Good old times.
wolvoleo 1 day ago|
Which is now KaiOS by the way.
opengrass 1 day ago||
Ideal hardware, garbage software (can't unlock HMD bootloaders)
functionmouse 1 day ago||
Something like this could do without the selfie cam, or bezels in general.
thisislife2 1 day ago|
Think of it as the front cam you need to make video calls ... I think the bezels is so that the corners of the phone doesn't poke you when you keep it in your pocket (it's a small device - smaller than even feature phones).
ppnpm 22 hours ago|
It's sluggish.
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