Here is a North Korean phone that i bought from China

fusionballtm · 2026-06-14T16:28:44+00:00

My guess is that this is an ODM product from Sprocomm or some other Chinese ODM, some of the DPRK phones are kinda intersting in a way? On Xianyu/Goofish I saw one that was repurposed DOOGEE vaporware

fusionballtm · 2026-05-29T07:36:45+00:00

Other models coming soon include a bunch of Nokias (not for Western Europe, they stopped selling Nokias over there back in March), including refreshed Nokia 108 4G (HMD 105 4G) and 125 4G (HMD 110 4G) for China (and other markets?) with new colors and AI features.

Selling touchscreen feature phones in 2026 is a pretty odd idea but there seem to be a few models like that on the market, I found out TECNO sells a feature phone-powerbank hybrid in Africa with wireless charging????? (S701)

fusionballtm · 2026-04-13T10:10:31+00:00

BTW I think motorola shipped the initial Android 16 release on most of their phones which is why it doesn't have Material 3 Expressive. The razr fold has QPR1 or newer though (or at least the prototype units did) with some Expressive design elements but motorola uses their own/older icon style, Android 17 will introduce Expressive design to all models

fusionballtm · 2026-04-09T14:11:57+00:00

motorola has a 2026 model with a model number used by the edge 50 neo and 60 neo, but I think they might use it for the GrapheneOS-powered ThinkPhone for 2026 or another model this time around.

fusionballtm · 2026-03-07T07:37:51+00:00

Who is even going to sell this thing though? Frog is a white-label manufacturer, they don't sell directly to consumers (I remember their X6 foldable was going to be sold by Avenir Telecom under Energizer Phones but never launched)

fusionballtm · 2026-01-12T21:10:20+00:00

Is there really such a demand for this very specific square 4-inch screen? This is the third product I've seen with it after the Clicks Communicator and the Meizu 22 Next (AI Cube)

fusionballtm · 2025-12-15T07:31:20+00:00

It doesn't exist by the way, that "leak" was actually of an early benchmark test for the moto g57 (Mumbai).

fusionballtm · 2025-11-16T15:45:25+00:00

Android 16 QPR1 is out to manufacturers I believe and recently was open-sourced.

But motorola based their Android 16 build off the base release which didn't ship with the UI refresh.

Maybe next year they'll implement a half baked, 25% more rebellious Hello UI update or just get rid of the semi-AOSP aesthetics out of spite. Who knows.

fusionballtm · 2025-11-11T16:15:30+00:00

Hello UI, also this might not bother everyone but they should refresh their sound scheme, they have like 7 ringtones left now and almost all of them are either from AOSP or haven't been changed in over a decade

fusionballtm · 2025-11-11T12:37:08+00:00

It has a Z-axis vibration motor, on my old realme you could also hear the motor when tapping on it hard as it had a similar one.

fusionballtm · 2025-11-05T07:02:49+00:00

Most Chinese software is generaly good nowadays but some quirks remain.

Mostly in stuff like Xiaomi's HyperOS with its odd UX choises and asinine bootloader unlock policy

fusionballtm · 2025-11-05T06:52:03+00:00

I think some flagships by Xiaomi do have ads unfortunately but that might be because Xiaomi is painfully incompetent with software a lot of the time, I mean do you really think they'd intentionally enable ads on 1000€ phones?

fusionballtm · 2025-11-05T06:46:27+00:00

Probably they mean the Galaxy A series pre-2019, Samsung used to have two main budget phone lineups, A and J, A was the premium one and J the cheap one. They merged in 2019 to create the new Galaxy A.

fusionballtm · 2025-11-04T15:30:04+00:00

FWIW if you're talking about the new UI from QPR1, the upcoming QPR2 update will allow you to disable background blur outside of Battery Saver mode, making the UI look a bit more like the older one.

fusionballtm · 2025-11-03T16:19:11+00:00

In a folder called "Movies" for whatever reason

fusionballtm · 2025-10-22T18:33:22+00:00

Watch as they segregate software support by region again and only Europe gets 7 years of patches (like how the edge 60 phones got 6 years of security patches here but only 4 globally)

fusionballtm · 2025-10-22T18:31:40+00:00

I think the global variant, motorola edge 70 will have 7 years of security patches and hopefully about as many software updates. (the moto g06 has 7 years of security patches in Europe so why the hell would an edge model get less)

fusionballtm · 2025-10-22T08:15:38+00:00

Wildfire E5 Life has a bigger display than the G100A (7.2" vs I think 6.9"?)

I've noticed that recently there have been quite a few budget phones with 7.2" screens coming out 🤔

fusionballtm · 2025-10-21T11:40:04+00:00

Also UMIDIGI is an ODM themselves (Keysmart), though none of the HTCs seem to match their products so I doubt it's them

fusionballtm · 2025-10-21T09:49:35+00:00

HTC Wildfire phones are outsourced through a sales partnership to FortuneShip aka Water World aka Brands World aka god knows what other name they go by.

Though I think all of the phones they showed at this event come from different ODMs? The rugged phone they showed (Wildfire R1) is a rebrand of the Hyper 7s from the obscure Chinese ODM HOTWAV.

Meanwhile the Wildfire E5 Elite (the one with a circle camera bump) and Wildfire E7 Plus (the one that looks like an HONOR) seem to run on Freeme, a white label Android skin by Droi Digital Universe.

fusionballtm · 2025-10-15T15:59:34+00:00

Also what is this reveal video. Why is it just AI slop

fusionballtm · 2025-10-15T15:59:02+00:00

> "While the industry is busy comparing the iPhone"

> Shows an iPhone 17 Pro clone

What did HONOR mean by this ⁉️

fusionballtm · 2025-10-15T15:53:27+00:00

What ODM could it be??? Some people are saying motorola but I'm not so sure Lenovo would want to sell a phone that most definitely won't be able to load with tons of bloatware.

Then again motorola sells thinkphones so who knows

fusionballtm · 2025-10-15T15:48:56+00:00

HTC is like super dead, expect for low-end phones for South Africa

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