Hi all,
Yes, I'm being deliberately provocative here. I'm saying that HMD's treasured "pure" Android One is beige. Vanilla is too nice a word, because proper vanilla is in fact very tasty, worth savouring. I feel like pure, stock Android is boring. It's like a beige PC from the 90s - uninspiring and dull.
I and several others have said many times that we wish that HMD would do something more interesting with the Android they ship on their smartphones. Personally, I want the UX of my Nokia to feel like a Nokia, and frankly the current experience feels nothing like a Nokia. It's nice hardware, but the only exceptional and noteworthy thing about the software is how ordinary and uninspiring it is. Beige.
I know lots of people want "pure" Android, and for those people there are hundreds if not thousands of cheap smartphones running ~stock AOSP + Google apps, and for those that want to be purer than pure there are the Pixel phones. And Android One phones from other manufacturers. There is a huge amount of choice for people who like their software to be beige.
But I want my software to be blue. Nokia blue. With the Nokia Pure font, running the Z-launcher and Fastlane UI. I want MixRadio/XpressMusic. I want camera and imaging software like the old Lumias had (where's my Storyteller app and smart-cam burst-mode image fusion? Not to mention proper PureView oversampling and lossless zoom). I want a smartphone that uses all the abilities of Nokia OZO Audio, not just the ones HMD can be bothered to pay for. I want a proper beta labs where there is a conversation between the developers and the betalabbers. Heck I even want Ovi online services in place of my privacy-trashing Google services!
Blimey there is so much missing I could go on but I won't because I think you get my point and either agree or you don't. I want the phone to feel like a Nokia, otherwise I might as well buy a cheap Shenzhen-generic stock AOSP+GApps smartphone... not that I would do that, I would buy the most interesting smartphone I could find.
So, let the flaming begin - I'm burn proof, btw

Cheers

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Secondly, I still dont understand that who conducts these researches and who participates in it.
I think HMD research team consider the comment of a person who has never used a Nokia phone but it would not consider any suggestion from loyal users of Nokia.
If this is the case then what is the purpose of Nokia community? Ain't people from community helping HMD research team? 🙁 (wait they dont take community seriously).
There is lot more things of HMD that turns me off. I have made my mind that I wont buy any of HMD smartphones until their phones reflect true Nokia Philosophy.
I would only buy Nokia feature phones for now.