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Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by nailer »

Great! This seems to compete with the new palm.com phones, but the palm ones have poor battery life (palm do look nicer though).

I'd be happy to drop money for a phone this size provided it can last all day. The whole point of a small phone is not to think about it - including having to charge it halfway through your day.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by Arnt »

jaredandrews wrote: post #3

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?

I did, and liked it.

https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/jelly

I use a Sony XZ1C now, though. The battery lifetime of the Jelly was a problem when I was travelling, and at 52 years I need a bit larger fonts. I wonder whether to get this one, though... Unihertz rocks, the phone supports the android upgrade stuff (DSU), the battery might just be big enough for me, AND: I loved the way the Jelly just wasn't a timewaste magnet. It let me run apps, very functional.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by ruffrey »

jaredandrews wrote: post #3

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?

I had the original Jelly. Had high hopes of getting a small modern phone, with minimal features but no time wasting apps, but returned it.

Battery life was hours. It wasn’t safe to take to work because it’d be dead in an hour of listening to music on the commute.

Phone call quality was so poor my family and coworkers went mutiny. I could hear them fine but the mic was awful, apparently.

The screen was so, so small that it took a long time to type, and was fraught with mistakes. I realized there is such a thing as too small.

Every picture taken was uselessly blurry.

Overall it felt like the early 2000s.

I would greatly be willing to try again. I need to upgrade this iPhone SE. Call me crazy, but having a phone that fits in my pocket, no matter what I’m wearing - that’s the best feature a phone could have.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by berlam »

jaredandrews wrote: post #3

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?

Actually I have the Jelly Pro and am taking it almost every time with me while doing sports wrapped around my upper arm. It is lightweight and I can have and use (almost) any android app on it. It is just nice to have a tiny device for playing music from Google Play Music/ YouTube Music and to have GPS tracking in that format. But I can only recommend it as a second or third device... for browsing, navigating or texting the display is too small and the apps are not optimized for that format.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by sradman »

nailer wrote: post #2

Great! This seems to compete with the new palm.com phones, but the palm ones have poor battery life (palm do look nicer though). I'd be happy to drop money for a phone this size provided it can last all day. The whole point of a small phone is not to think about it - including having to charge it halfway through your day.

Recent HN thread Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids [1]. The phone was released in late 2018 by a Chinese manufacturer known for releasing malware [2] in the past:

> The app, named "Weather Forecast-World Weather Accurate Radar," was developed by TCL Corporation, a Chinese electronics company that among other things owns the Alcatel, BlackBerry, and Palm brands.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659871

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-preinstalled-on-...

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