Tech Desk 
Jul 19, 2024
The smartphone market is getting inflated with each passing day as every manufacturer, regardless of the scale of its operations, is following suit: making its product stylish, efficient and cost-friendly.
Given that, a relatively newer contender in the top-tier smartphone landscape is HMD, which introduced the Skyline smartphone yesterday, appearing to follow in the footsteps of the Nokia N9 in terms of design repairability.
HMD was a prominent subordinate arm of Nokia until they parted ways last year, and was entrusted to marketing Nokia-branded feature phones and smartphones.
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The Finnish tech giant is now offering the HMD Skyling for $500 (€500 or £400) for the base variant of 8/128 GB, with the top-tier variant with 12G RAM and 256 storage coming for $600 (€600 or £500).
The supposed middle-tier model of the HMD Skyline is also said to be put on certain regional websites. But the discouraging fact is that it's not yet available.
HMD Skyline specifications and features
Equipped with a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset, the HMD Skyline boasts a 6.55” OLED display augmented by up to 144 Hz refresh rate.
Part of its photographic prowess, the HMD Skyline features a 50 MP selfie camera behind a punch hole, with the primary shooter based on a triple camera system including a 108 MP main camera, a 13 MP ultra-wide shooter and a 50 MP telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom and PDAF.
Regarding how long it can run on a single charge, the HMD Skyline is backed by a 4,600 mAh battery which supports 33W wired charging, as well as 15W wireless Qi2 magnetic charging.
HMD Skyline is a repairable Android
What strikes the finest touch of appeal to it is the Gen 2 repairability, as the company dubs it, which offers a screw on the bottom. Users willing to replace the screen, the battery, or the USB-C port can unscrew it to pop the back panel without any hassle.
