... Wish HMD would work on the parts of the phone people actually care about. Gimme a good screen, dual speakers, decent processor, ram/rom, respectable camera. I don't need a fancy ring light.
@@DanielBradler currently apple also seems to be adding android things. So the whole iphone and Android difference is slowly disappearing. Atleast that's what I think. We need risk takers not safe choices
Nice to see a company trying something different. Replacement parts is defo a push in the right direction and im looking forward to a removable battery on a popular phone one day.
Too bad they put a low tier display and processor, otherwise could've been great. On a totally unrelated note, I would love to see a review of the Moondrop MIAD01 from you!
@@oida10000 This. So much this. Donno what Nothing was thinking. No NFC = no sale in EU. Well, some grandmas may buy them, except they opted for emergency bright colors and black sooooo... scratch that . I was recently looking for a new phone and bought another brand just because of the lack of NFC. If it had it, I would've bought 1 in 0.5 seconds. It is perfect in all other aspects for me. But because it doesn't, I would choose this HMD before the CMF if I had to choose between the two.
@@silentreader77 Everything has NFC these days, even the cheapest devices. I guess they thought that would make people buy a Nothing 2a instead but that is in a different price category. They shot themselves in the foot, CMF would've sold like hot cake all around the world if it had NFC.
Oh neat they got some kind of toolkit in their website for those "outfits". They got the pinout for the pogo pins too. Seems like fun, at least it might be easier to make stuff for it?
For that price you can get yourself an IQOO Z9 (Snapdragon) which will obliterate this HMD bullocks in any segment. Complete with 80W charger in the box 🤣
Yeah specs wise, phones like hmd, samsung and apple shouldn't be considered to buy in midrange as there are other brands that can provide better specs at same price
Because it's a marketing trick. No one will want to sell you a true modular phone or anything really if they can get away without the modularity. Less replaceable parts = new phone sooner. They just wanna use the hype and try to sell phones. And in this case - "special" back covers after you buy the phone. If they truely wanted to sell modular phones, they'd let you choose the parts/modules you want when you buy one and charge per peice, like Framework does for laptops. As you can see in the video, that's not the case, so....
Motorola tried this. What about 7 years ago? It was awesome. You could get a JBL speaker and such. It wasn't the right time then but maybe it's the right time now. What do you think?😮
@@ImanthaDeSilva-eo3yta34 is good,but FAR from perfect,and a35 is just mid exynos What I would call perfect would be Vivo x100 pro or Xiaomi 14 Ultra,both have extraordinary camera performance which is like one of the main things I care about
I watched a review of a true e-ink phone a while back, it doesn't work. Even when the e-ink panel is good and fast, color is either pathetic or 256 grayscale from 2004. Now, if there was a phone that had OLED on the front and e-ink on the back (or better yet e-ink backcover that you can buy and attach), that would be something. It would kill a lot of kindle sales because of the convenience. And if you flip the phone you can use the e-ink as an always on display, it literally uses 0 power when stationary. Solar panel would also be cool, I'd buy that, too.
This phone won't make it just like the Motorola phone didn't make it. No company wants to make mods for this phone because they're not going to make any money this phone's not going to sell
8:16 well not everyone is in England So brightness could have been stated in "nits"...Brightness 1200+ would be ok to have a better visibility in sunlight.. (In Bharat we have plenty of bright daylight all round the year)
HMD, read this and I'm sold, make a phone that has: - 2 USB-C - Micro SD - Dual Sim - High-END CPU and GPU - 6.8" Display with no Fake bezels - 90 Hz (more is a downside) - 6K Mah battery - UNLOCKED boot loader for custom Roms and no CARRIERS RUINING EVERYTHING - Motorized Front Camera or tiny punch hole
When I saw modular in the title I thought ara came back. That amazing modular phone from a small startup which was then bought by google and then sunset almost immediately... ugh
I feel the top brands with android os phones are samsung google and xiaomi one plus iqoo vivo Chinese and us brands are very similar besides Google pixel
Doesn't seem like they have much faith in it doing well... i really need a new phone and would love to not hand over $1000aud for one. But no phones seem to really do the job. Probably going to have to buy Samsung again.
If they will have less than 10 mods and most of rhem will be jsut a kickstand of a card wallet. Then the "modular" part of the phone is basically useless
A 200$ phone that I've never heard of with no charger in the box. Smart marketing. It's already dumb enough that BIG manufacturers does this but the "little guy" as well is just brainless at this point.🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️😂😂
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How is HMD existing as a company with such huge losses with absolute pathetic phones and minimum sales.... I wonder how many phones does HMD sell in Europe considering its market share is less than 0.2% in India😂😂...
90 Hz low resolution IPS in a brand new phone at the end of 2024? Well that's a hard pass then, the rest simply doesn't matter when the biggest and most important part of the phone is bad. Not like the rest is great as well but come on, they are trying to get into the buisiness with this bundle of random outdated parts?
Why this guy has to use abusive language in tech reviews...have some etiquettes and respect for your audience (if left anymore)...make clean content... No wonder you have very less views and likes left...
Idk what HMD is doing, but they really, really, *really* need a cleansing. One can tell from a far that this is a pathetic attempt at rekindling what previous brands have failed in. LG and Motorola failed due to the lacking support, variety, and practicality for their mods. This one... this one is just shit. Not only is it shite. The implementation sucks more than an organic vacuum. It's clunky as hell! Every switch is a chore. The design is cheap and wonky. The purpose is stupid. And the marketing is even dumber. Who the hell wants to buy something like this? Like, seriously, HMD... Just for *'WHO'* exactly is this for? The features, aside from the flash, is just a repacking of things we used to get over half a decade ago. Nothing new about it. Instead of a flash, why not legit add modular lenses? Put one, big, high quality lense on a phone and then make it so that users can equip different different lenses on it for different focal lengths. Make a gimmick where you try to mimic the 'feel' of using an actual camera without its cumbersome aspects. Like the vibration caused by the shutter when you take a photo. The way you hold a camera and where the capture button is located. And the depth of a camera. All of these with just a few attachments. Or the ability to turn your phone into a Mini-PC using a dock and a monitor. Android already has a desktop mode in A15. Why not build on top of it? Or put a high quality audio jack for audiophiles. Or a privacy-focused device that runs on Linux/Sailfish. Or make a really, really, *really* good dinky qwerty phone. Seriously, that would catch the eye of quite a handful of people. A phone that lasts for days on a change. Takes descent pics.. Can use and browse the internet without problems. Feels good to type on. Is small and pocketable. Has a great headphone jack. Niche phone, but is really, really, really good. So many ways to make an actually interesting and desirable device, yet they make this?!
HMD phones are wrap they should make a good phone like they did years ago good nokiaphones then they started making very bad phones are they going to realise making shit don't work
hmd is a terrible name, the screen border is atrocious and without watching the whole vid I assume the cpu is slow as fuck too. ring camera case cool tho.
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... Wish HMD would work on the parts of the phone people actually care about. Gimme a good screen, dual speakers, decent processor, ram/rom, respectable camera. I don't need a fancy ring light.
"I haven't seen a ring glow like that since the last time I had a vindaloo!" 😂
I laughed out loud for that one. One of the many reasons I watch his videos.
😂 he's so underrated with his one liners 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah I nearly choked on my coffee at that bit 😂😂
Good to see atleast some company is trying to be different. I always felt like the current mobile industry has been stagnant
Have not seen the Moto mod era for the Motorola Z series from 2015? LG G6?
@EtherealGoddess_Ent I used to love moto when I was a kid
@@EtherealGoddess_Ent ...from 2015 almost 10 years ago.
The back doesn't look the best, but man, it's really pretty for a naked back phone.
@@DanielBradler currently apple also seems to be adding android things. So the whole iphone and Android difference is slowly disappearing. Atleast that's what I think. We need risk takers not safe choices
Dear Mr. Spurt, thank you for reviewing HMD phones.
Nice to see a company trying something different. Replacement parts is defo a push in the right direction and im looking forward to a removable battery on a popular phone one day.
Too bad they put a low tier display and processor, otherwise could've been great. On a totally unrelated note, I would love to see a review of the Moondrop MIAD01 from you!
The fact that it is so budget built, the me, shows that HMD ain't sure this will make it at all
I hope that hmd makes a battery case for the hmd fusion for extended battery life for long sessions of playing games and watching 4k youtube videos.
Better implementation of a moduler type phone compared to the CMF1. Nothing CMF 1 better in other areas
I would choose it over the CMF 1 (NFC support).
@@oida10000 This. So much this. Donno what Nothing was thinking. No NFC = no sale in EU. Well, some grandmas may buy them, except they opted for emergency bright colors and black sooooo... scratch that .
I was recently looking for a new phone and bought another brand just because of the lack of NFC. If it had it, I would've bought 1 in 0.5 seconds. It is perfect in all other aspects for me. But because it doesn't, I would choose this HMD before the CMF if I had to choose between the two.
@@tusux2949 weird CMF omitted NFC because even HMD Pulse series has NFC
@@silentreader77 Everything has NFC these days, even the cheapest devices. I guess they thought that would make people buy a Nothing 2a instead but that is in a different price category. They shot themselves in the foot, CMF would've sold like hot cake all around the world if it had NFC.
I think all selfies should be done in the mankini from now on! ❤
Oh neat they got some kind of toolkit in their website for those "outfits". They got the pinout for the pogo pins too. Seems like fun, at least it might be easier to make stuff for it?
For that price you can get yourself an IQOO Z9 (Snapdragon) which will obliterate this HMD bullocks in any segment. Complete with 80W charger in the box 🤣
Yeah specs wise, phones like hmd, samsung and apple shouldn't be considered to buy in midrange as there are other brands that can provide better specs at same price
Any phone that forces the user to keep a social media platform immediately gets ignored, regardless how great/or not, the rest of it may be.
Such bet on modularity, yet, battery is not easily replaceable. Why?
Because it's a marketing trick. No one will want to sell you a true modular phone or anything really if they can get away without the modularity. Less replaceable parts = new phone sooner. They just wanna use the hype and try to sell phones. And in this case - "special" back covers after you buy the phone. If they truely wanted to sell modular phones, they'd let you choose the parts/modules you want when you buy one and charge per peice, like Framework does for laptops. As you can see in the video, that's not the case, so....
Didn't the Moto Z die for this exact reason? Putting all the half-decent features in expensive cases?
Why do customizable phones always look so ugly
To then claim "it didn't sell, it failed"
instead of a ring light they should focus on making thing which people really care .. like extra speaker case , battery case , zoom lens case etc .
I can see this catching on and definitely not being a one-off that is discontinued in a year
It wont. Low powered SOC, poor availability. No one will remember this is 3months. Dead on arrival
@ it was sarcasm
@@sjstu lol should have added one of these 😁 at the end of the line
@@manm5302 I don’t need to. I’m
British
@@manm5302 I don't need to. I'm British
now this what i call futuristic design
Motorola tried this. What about 7 years ago? It was awesome. You could get a JBL speaker and such. It wasn't the right time then but maybe it's the right time now. What do you think?😮
I'm very interested, but wow is that phone big with them cases.
it has a snapdragon 4 gen 2, that's worse than SD 845 that came 7 years ago.
It will bomb.
It shouldn't, but it will.
The trouble with HMD product's, is the security updates are terrible, my Nokia is 4 months behind on security patches, when they monthly 😢
Buy Samsung galaxy A34 5g or A35 5g 🎉 Samsung is good❤😁 i have Samsung galaxy A34 5g😄 perfect phone💓💯
They don't even matter tbh
@@ImanthaDeSilva-eo3yta34 is good,but FAR from perfect,and a35 is just mid exynos
What I would call perfect would be Vivo x100 pro or Xiaomi 14 Ultra,both have extraordinary camera performance which is like one of the main things I care about
There's also find x7/x8 pro
And OnePlus 12 on a budget for some great shots, my friend got it for 600e recently
great Unboxing
No one will buy this.
Why?
Because people are dumb and will keep buying iphones, that are exactly the same generation after generation...
@@SirBogginsno one cares
@@__systemctl__ But why?
I still keep my Motorola mods but sad Motorola stopped making them anymore. But it's surprising to see HMD throwing it's hat.
Damn that's stupid here's a few useful modules
Better camera
Better dac
Battery
Speaker
Eink panel
Solar panel for charging
Yes and if these modules are affordable, then it will be successful otherwise HMD will see the fate of LG smartphones 😢
I watched a review of a true e-ink phone a while back, it doesn't work. Even when the e-ink panel is good and fast, color is either pathetic or 256 grayscale from 2004.
Now, if there was a phone that had OLED on the front and e-ink on the back (or better yet e-ink backcover that you can buy and attach), that would be something. It would kill a lot of kindle sales because of the convenience. And if you flip the phone you can use the e-ink as an always on display, it literally uses 0 power when stationary.
Solar panel would also be cool, I'd buy that, too.
Jolla phone had similar concept with the other half.
I hope HMD will support other options than this light case.
Haha. That case basically has an "aura light" add-on 🤣
Can you take a look at the fair phone 5? Would love to know if a modular phone exists that can go toe to toe with the likes of Samsung.
This phone won't make it just like the Motorola phone didn't make it. No company wants to make mods for this phone because they're not going to make any money this phone's not going to sell
as much as i love the concept, you're 100% correct, it's the sad reality
7:33 COBRA KAI NEVER DIES!!
8:16 well not everyone is in England So brightness could have been stated in "nits"...Brightness 1200+ would be ok to have a better visibility in sunlight..
(In Bharat we have plenty of bright daylight all round the year)
Nice video
HMD, read this and I'm sold, make a phone that has:
- 2 USB-C
- Micro SD
- Dual Sim
- High-END CPU and GPU
- 6.8" Display with no Fake bezels
- 90 Hz (more is a downside)
- 6K Mah battery
- UNLOCKED boot loader for custom Roms and no CARRIERS RUINING EVERYTHING
- Motorized Front Camera or tiny punch hole
Modular Phones Right Now -
If You Hate Cases - CMF Phone 1
If You Don't Care For The Bulky Cases - HMD Fusion
When I saw modular in the title I thought ara came back.
That amazing modular phone from a small startup which was then bought by google and then sunset almost immediately... ugh
Leaving out features and then repackaging and selling them as an adding modulez can't think of any other company that would do that. 🍏
And you have to buy a separate "outfit" that's kinda pricey. Never mind. And I want my phone securely covered.
That ring could be used for more than one thing. (If you were a minecraft character.)
I feel the top brands with android os phones are samsung google and xiaomi one plus iqoo vivo Chinese and us brands are very similar besides Google pixel
With only two Android updates..... Sorry, definitely no HMD phone for me even though it's appealing.
Is HMD selling this phone in Canada?
That chin is larger than the solar system
chins and foreheads on phones are fine. edge to edge displays just make you have to gingerly hold your phone rather than actually grabbing it
😂😂😂
@techspurt you should review the new Samsung a16 that was released November 1st 2024
To be fair. It looks like a motorola blower. G85, 84, 73, 54 etc etc etc.
There's no point in the ring light unless you can film in 4K. For social media that is.
Need HMD to carry Nokia again, pls
We want to see the VIVO 200
A 720p display for that price? Yikes.
I don't know why mod phones didn't take off, it can't be that hard...come on people
Motorola couldn't make this work (and they really did try), not sure why HMD is even bothering.
So we're just going to act like CMF Phone 1 by Nothing isn't customizable?
thats it?
Hmm, serious Moto Mods vibes from this. Unfortunate they didn't last
Thetrird year of security patch dissapoited me and im not sure if im gonna buy onother hmd phone. Maybe a tablet
Where is the kick-ass anime wallpaper
Ok
Please review the Motorola G 75
Leave a chin like that, and then make a hole for the camera. What the heck! Why can't the camera be in the chin?
HMD has fallen really hard. The last actually good phone they mad was the nokia 7 plus.
Real Modular phone lets you upgrade processor every year 😂😂😂😂
"IPS" > closes video
Vindaloo 🥵🤣🤣🤣🤣
mods are good but the Motorola ones are better
nice video
from india
Doesn't seem like they have much faith in it doing well... i really need a new phone and would love to not hand over $1000aud for one. But no phones seem to really do the job. Probably going to have to buy Samsung again.
can you review samsung a16 5G
That's probably the worst speaker I've heard on any phone in the past couple of years.
Modularity is only as good as the inbuilt hardware it supports it. What is the use of a gamepad mod on a phone that can barely run any games.
If they will have less than 10 mods and most of rhem will be jsut a kickstand of a card wallet. Then the "modular" part of the phone is basically useless
I would like to get the wallpapers that tech spurt uses
Where can I get them ?
pornhub
A 200$ phone that I've never heard of with no charger in the box. Smart marketing. It's already dumb enough that BIG manufacturers does this but the "little guy" as well is just brainless at this point.🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️😂😂
I would love to get a modular phone, if they actually made a decent one. This is not it
All phones are modular...
For a customizable unit, 2 years of updates? Nope
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Modular phone with almost no years of updates is so stupid
I guess with no video examples, video is poor?
what a waste of a product with outrageously underused and underappreciated smart pins
Google had project ara ... They canned the project
I think it was Motorola's project and was dropped after Lenovo took over as Parent company of Motorola.
wow
How is HMD existing as a company with such huge losses with absolute pathetic phones and minimum sales....
I wonder how many phones does HMD sell in Europe considering its market share is less than 0.2% in India😂😂...
this phone wont last, its like moto mod before
Hello Afrika 😂its will sell in nigeria sierre leone kenia a lot no worries
These never work.
90 Hz low resolution IPS in a brand new phone at the end of 2024? Well that's a hard pass then, the rest simply doesn't matter when the biggest and most important part of the phone is bad. Not like the rest is great as well but come on, they are trying to get into the buisiness with this bundle of random outdated parts?
Those bezels, wow. In 2024 🫠
Title of that Anime?
Moto Z
The only thing I don't like about you is that you're making alcohol addiction a joke...
Why this guy has to use abusive language in tech reviews...have some etiquettes and respect for your audience (if left anymore)...make clean content...
No wonder you have very less views and likes left...
0:31 "So can HMD give modular phones a much needed boot up the arse and succeed where Motorola kind of **** it's pants?" No. The answer is no.
8:13 anime name?
Ranma 1/2
That is a bad joke, poorly built phone. IP Rating surely missing
This is go to a dumpster.... there is more budget phone out there more powerful than this....
Idk what HMD is doing, but they really, really, *really* need a cleansing.
One can tell from a far that this is a pathetic attempt at rekindling what previous brands have failed in.
LG and Motorola failed due to the lacking support, variety, and practicality for their mods.
This one... this one is just shit. Not only is it shite. The implementation sucks more than an organic vacuum.
It's clunky as hell! Every switch is a chore. The design is cheap and wonky. The purpose is stupid. And the marketing is even dumber.
Who the hell wants to buy something like this?
Like, seriously, HMD...
Just for *'WHO'* exactly is this for?
The features, aside from the flash, is just a repacking of things we used to get over half a decade ago. Nothing new about it.
Instead of a flash, why not legit add modular lenses?
Put one, big, high quality lense on a phone and then make it so that users can equip different different lenses on it for different focal lengths.
Make a gimmick where you try to mimic the 'feel' of using an actual camera without its cumbersome aspects.
Like the vibration caused by the shutter when you take a photo. The way you hold a camera and where the capture button is located. And the depth of a camera.
All of these with just a few attachments.
Or the ability to turn your phone into a Mini-PC using a dock and a monitor. Android already has a desktop mode in A15. Why not build on top of it?
Or put a high quality audio jack for audiophiles.
Or a privacy-focused device that runs on Linux/Sailfish.
Or make a really, really, *really* good dinky qwerty phone. Seriously, that would catch the eye of quite a handful of people.
A phone that lasts for days on a change. Takes descent pics.. Can use and browse the internet without problems. Feels good to type on. Is small and pocketable. Has a great headphone jack.
Niche phone, but is really, really, really good.
So many ways to make an actually interesting and desirable device, yet they make this?!
Its gonna be a flop..just like the motorola.
HMD phones are wrap they should make a good phone like they did years ago good nokiaphones then they started making very bad phones are they going to realise making shit don't work
hmd is a terrible name, the screen border is atrocious and without watching the whole vid I assume the cpu is slow as fuck too. ring camera case cool tho.