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Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

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Re: Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

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Post by askvictor »

rostayob wrote: post #7
DidYaWipe wrote: post #5

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Interesting. The headphone jack would be my main reason for buying this thing. Recently forgot my iPad on a trip, and couldn't listen to anything on the plane because my goddamned iPhone lacks a headphone jack. So offensively stupid.

Note that I was fairly careless with it, and I'm pretty clumsy. It probably fell 20+ times. But still, it feels very cheap (and I suppose it makes sense given the price).

I have a Jelly pro , and has similarly fallen a fair few times and is fine. Feeling cheap doesn't necessarily mean it's less rugged though - a plastic case is generally going to absorb more shock than a glass or metal case like 'premium' phones have. I remember my first android (Galaxy S) was panned for feeling 'cheap' but I dropped that so many times and it's still alive today.

Re: Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

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ThinkBeat wrote: post #23
rostayob wrote: post #3

I've been using this phone as my full time phone for 1 year. It's a great compromise for people that ideally would not want a smartphone, but need to have one since many life situations require it. I basically only use it for WhatsApp and music, but when some other need arises, it can do everything a normal smartphone can do. The only problem is that the build quality is not good. The audio jack of the first one I bo…

I can only imagine that the typing experience on such a tiny phone is sub optimal. When you say WhatsApp are you actually typing in messages ?

I used one for about a year. I thought I'd be using voice-to-text a lot to get around this issue, but couldn't get used to the idea. A swipe-style keyboard does make typing much less onerous that you might imagine though.

Re: Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

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I have a Jelly Pro, used it for about a year. It fits in the useless pocket of your jeans, and gets you plenty of weird looks. I got it planning to utilise the annoyance of a tiny screen to use my phone less, but it works as well as I thought it would (that's addiction for you).

That aside, two things I would really like in a phone like this are a better camera, and the ability to plug in the phone to a bigger screen (some apps have an equivalent web-app you can use on a laptop, but there were enough that didn't have that that I had to stuff around on them with the phone). Also it is quite thick, but this didn't bother me very much.

Re: Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

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Post by sharts »

grishka wrote: post #121
orson2077 wrote: post #91

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Amen. An updated 4" flagship would be incredible! They say that small phones are for people with small hands, but no-one can one-hand a 6" phone without holding it like an idiot. I want the claw grip back!

That and I also have small hands. My current phone is a Pixel 4a, and it's already way past my comfort zone. It's frustrating to use with one hand, and, believe it or not, most of my phone usage is one-handed. It's like all phone manufacturers have collectively forgotten about ergonomics.

Has there ever been a focus on ergonomics over aesthetics by any manufacturer of any tech product over the last decade?

Nothing comes to mind.

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