Nokia G22 review: The repair-it-yourself budget phone, in partnership with iFixit.
The budget phone you can fix yourself.
G22 brought Fairphone's repairability ethos to the true budget tier — an iFixit partnership with guides and parts for DIY battery, screen and port swaps, plus three-day battery life. The Unisoc chip is slow, but the point is longevity and sustainability over speed, and on that it quietly delivers.
01Display
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
02Camera
50/10050/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
03Performance
42/10042/100 trails the 45-point cohort average for budget phones of 2023.
04Battery
78/10078/100 puts it above the 75-point average for budget phones of 2023.
05Build
70/10070/100 puts it above the 68-point average for budget phones of 2023.
06Value
62/10062/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2023.
- iFixit partnership — DIY battery, screen and port repairs.
- Three-day battery life on the modest chip.
- Near-stock Android, recycled materials.
- jack + microSD.
- Unisoc T606 is slow, 4G only.
- HD+ panel, two filler lenses.
- 20 W charging, single speaker.
- Repairs are DIY, not the speediest internals.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 7-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .