They are very cheap noname phones, branded with the name Nokia, but I am sure no Nokia R&D team was involved in these products.
Old Nokia had RM-xxx or RX-xxx model numbers, so it's also clear that some of their corpo structure did survive.
I thought only HMD [0] had the right to put the Nokia brand on a phone, and had several former Nokia executives in their leadership able to validate whether a device is "worthy" of that brand. Which made sense since Nokia as a company and brand still exist albeit in a different field, and junk branded with this name can tarnish the image.
Edit. I see HMD may transition away from the Nokia brand. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global#:~:text=The%20compa....
[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/hmd_is_dropping_its_nokia_branding_...
Having a leader who isn't driven by lust for profit helps a bunch. Sam Walton was that way and Chouinard of Patagonia has tried to build an ethical legacy through a trust. Walton failed. It remains to be seen if Chouinard does the same.
After probably a month or so the hinge brackets broke from normal use.
Nokia refused to refund / repair it saying that only a drop could have caused it.
I replaced it with an AGM M8 which is a great dumbphone.
Funny enough the software on the nokia and the M8 was very similar.
I also had the CAT S22 flip, but I couldn't warm to it. It's really heavy and bulky, runs android so can be a bit sluggish, not amazing battery. I even rooted it and removed some of the bloatware it comes with, but it just isn't a great phone.
I had no issues with the M8 Flip, I got the normal version, not the security plus. Even though the camera is not great, sometimes it can be useful to be able to send an image over MMS. It's nice and light but still feels quality. Good loud speaker etc.
It has call recording, optionally automatic, which is important for me. It takes an SD card and I was able to transfer contacts as a vcf file, podcasts, and even exercise videos after some conversion. Not that the screen was amazing for watching things, but for following an exercise video would work in a pinch.
I think something like this worked.
ffmpeg -i "$INPUT" -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -vf setdar=dar=0,setsar=sar=0 -c:a copy "$OUTPUT"
I'm actually not using it at the moment, I moved to a jelly star by unihertz, which I love, but it's a very different offering. Though I am considering going back to the M8 for a few months.
That said, that's kinda cheating since Mint is a T-Mobile MVNO and I haven't tried it outside my usual T-Mobile service area.
I had the M6 before and I had issues where it would have coverage but calls would go straight to voicemail.
Maybe it was just an issue with that phone, I returned it.
I never had any problems with the M8 Flip.
Until a manager for a tempting job wanted to do the first call on the phone. The call quality was so bad, it bombed the interview for me. So I kissed my privacy goodbye, and bought an iPhone.
(I've since switched to a GrapheneOS phone, which works well, with less violating.)