The keypad lock feature is really bad. You know the feature in smartphones where even on the lockscreen there is an “emergency call” button, so anyone can call? In the HMD candybar phones, you can just press “9” and it bypasses the keyboard lock. So if you put the phone in a bag and the buttons get pressed randomly, eventually it will reach “999”. Then it’s a matter of the green call button being randomly pressed and it calls the ambulance.

The emergency team even called me back asking why do I keep calling and do I need help, as they wanted to block my number from calling them.

HMD used to manufacture (I don’t think they’ll release any new Nokia phone till the end ofthe year) phones using the Nokia brand, because Nokia licensed it to them. The license ends with the end of this year. From that point on HMD will make devices under their own brand.

Misleading title.

By the way, if you still want to use google’s search engine but want to avoid the AI stuff, see https://udm14.com/ or just add &udm=14 to your search query

Forgejo (/forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ – inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge)

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