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252 points diwank | 7 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source | bottom
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ChuckMcM ◴[15 Oct 24 20:37 UTC] No.41852838[source]▶
In many ways (no pun intended :-)) I would relate to having an iPad mini and a much much dumber phone which was just text/chat and voice. I have gotten there because I'm constantly in this weird tension between wanting a bigger screen on my phone because the app I'm using and wanting a smaller phone so that it is easier to pocket and carry around. A friend of mine did the folding screen phone thing and that has its advantages but I really like a small phone (and ideally with a long battery life so no 1000 nit screens on it). Definitely first world/21st century problems :-). I do find engineering tradeoffs in product design an interesting thing though.
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1. Syonyk ◴[15 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41853115[source]▶
Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you.

If you want one that can survive anything life will throw at it, look at the Sonim devices - the XP3+ (flip) or XP5+ (candybar). They're Android Go, have exceptionally good (week and a half, easily) battery life, hotspot just fine, and handle actual use a lot better than the KaiOS toys out there. Maybe 3.x is better, but KaiOS 2.x couldn't handle actual use for more than a few weeks without starting to lag, requiring you to remove texts from it so the interface wasn't glacial, and mine eventually just stopped bothering to notify me about incoming calls and texts, which is your one job... The Android Go stuff seems to actually hold up to sustained moderate use.

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2. bradfa ◴[15 Oct 24 21:45 UTC] No.41853438[source]▶
Do any of these Android Go phones have semi decent cameras? That’s a big holdup for many people.
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3. adastra22 ◴[15 Oct 24 21:49 UTC] No.41853468[source]▶
In the context of this thread, that’s what the iPad mini is for.
4. 0x38B ◴[15 Oct 24 22:09 UTC] No.41853613[source]▶
I used a KaiOS device for about 6 months. My expectations weren’t high, but texting and T9 input were a mess:

A) I had to manually enter captital I, apostrophe, and ‘m’ every time I wanted to write “I’m”.

B) New words (like brand and place names) displace common words in the built-in wordlist - that is, T9 gets worse the more you use it.

It was still an OK digital minimalist/detox device - the GMaps web app with voice search was good enough.

The Android Go devices you mentioned sound far better – I’m never touching KaiOS again.

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6. WhyNotHugo ◴[16 Oct 24 00:06 UTC] No.41854352[source]▶
> Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you.

Assuming you use something like WhatsApp, Facebook or something alike. Modern "feature phones" include built-in applications for messaging and calling, and you generally can't install anything custom on them.

7. Syonyk ◴[16 Oct 24 05:51 UTC] No.41855993[source]▶
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-... has some sample images from mine - it's an 8MP camera. Not amazing, but also not a 2MP potato.