HMD launches Pulse, the brand’s first smartphone: affordable, removable battery, screen replaceable

While HMD Global, the company that has the rights to design, manufacture and distribute Nokia brand mobile phones, continues to launch Nokia brand feature phones, HMD has recently launched its first smartphone series called HMD Pulse, which comes in 3 models: the standard HMD Pulse, HMD Pulse+ and HMD Pulse Pro, with a price between 100 – 200 euros (approximately 4,000 – 8,000 baht).

HMD Pulse is a budget smartphone. This is in line with HMD’s approach to developing devices that are environmentally friendly. and allows users to repair it themselves. HMD Pulse has been manufactured to support repairs at the Gen 1 level, which means Users can purchase repair kits from iFixit (a website that collects repairs for various devices) to repair their smartphones themselves. Including replacing the battery. and change the screen

HMD Pulse

HMD Pulse is the standard model in this series. It is equipped with a Unisoc T606 chipset with a speed of 1.6 GHz (just like the other two models) with interesting specs as follows.

Unisoc T606 (12 nm) 1.6 GHz chipset: Cortex-A75 (2 cores) + Cortex-A55 (6 cores) + Mali-G57 MP1 graphics chip + 4G modem chip
6.65-inch LCD screen, resolution 720p+, aspect ratio 20:9, refresh rate 90 Hz, maximum brightness 600 Nit, NTSC color standard 70%
RAM 4 – 6 GB
Storage 64 GB (expandable with microSD card up to 256 GB)
13 megapixel rear camera (main) + 2 megapixel depth sensor
Front camera 8 megapixels
5,000 mAh battery, 10 W charging, 800 full charge cycles, quick swap in 5 minutes
Install a fingerprint scanning sensor on the Power button.
Supports Wi-Fi 5 (ac), Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and GPS/Galileo connectivity.

HMD Pulse comes with Android 14 operating system software that supports 2 major updates and 3 years of continuous security updates, like the other two models.

HMD Pulse is priced at 140 euros or approximately 5,500 baht.

HMD Pulse+

The HMD Pulse+ gets an upgrade to up to 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, along with a higher resolution main camera of 50 megapixels.

HMD Pulse+ has a maximum price of 160 euros or about 6,300 baht.

HMD Pulse Pro

The HMD Pulse Pro is the top-of-the-line model in the series. Which comes with the same specs as HMD Pulse+ in almost every way, with the front camera upgraded to 50 megapixels.

HMD Pulse Pro is priced at 180 euros or approximately 7,100 baht.