Finnish company HMD Global opposed the installation of third-party firmware on its manufactured smartphones Nokia. The latter come with a clean version of Android without any add-ons, which allows the manufacturer to quickly update all of its devices. Released in this year's model, including the budget of Nokia 3, regularly receive fresh security patches, sometimes even ahead of devices from Google. It is for security reasons that HMD Global does not welcome the installation of custom firmware.

Yuno Sarvikas, chief product officer for HMD Global, responded to a Twitter user that he did not plan to offer an official unlocking tool for the bootloader in Nokia smartphones. This decision was made primarily to ensure maximum security for its customers.

Also, Juno Sarvikas added that they will share the source code for changes in the kernels with the user community.