Reminds me a bit of my old Palm Pre from 2009. I really miss that damn phone.
Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen
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#22I don't understand how the smartphone market is so enormous but the variety is so small. Why do I have to carry around a phone over twice as tall as it is wide when the space my thumb can reach is roughly circular? If I'm holding my phone balanced in my hand I can neither reach the navigation area at the bottom nor the notification area at the top. If I get a phone small enough to reach the whole screen it's so narro…
16:8 is too much but 16:9 is what you want?
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#23I've been using the Unihertz Atom for three and a half years now. I absolutely love it. The GPS is better than my Sony Xperia had. I've thrown it across rooms to demonstrate how durable it is. Its small size is always a conversation starter.
A few months ago I bought the new Jelly, and while it has a slightly larger screen, I didn't like the updated version of Android. I went back to my Atom. If anything happened to it, I would immediately buy another without a second thought.
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#25Anybody ever switch from iPhone to android back and forth? I’m Apple products top to bottom but wouldn’t hate being able to switch to something like this for a few weeks at a time to change my habits…but it just seems gnarly and painful to make that kind of switch given how deep I am into Apple ecosystem (photos, iMessage, etc)
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#26Does the phone screen PWM free?
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#27Anybody ever switch from iPhone to android back and forth? I’m Apple products top to bottom but wouldn’t hate being able to switch to something like this for a few weeks at a time to change my habits…but it just seems gnarly and painful to make that kind of switch given how deep I am into Apple ecosystem (photos, iMessage, etc)
I think mkbhd (a tech reviewer) may have made a video on that.
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#28I've been using the Unihertz Atom for three and a half years now. I absolutely love it. The GPS is better than my Sony Xperia had. I've thrown it across rooms to demonstrate how durable it is. Its small size is always a conversation starter. A few months ago I bought the new Jelly, and while it has a slightly larger screen, I didn't like the updated version of Android. I went back to my Atom. If anything happened to…
Oh the atom got pretty bad reviews on Kickstarter. Cameras getting foggy after it turning out to be not so waterproof, pieces of rubber coming off etc.
I had bad experiences with the first jelly (non pro). The promised Android upgrade never came to the non pro version. Other than that it was ok but not something I'd repeat.
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#29You know, I like it. But using an on-screen keyboard on that would be exhausting. Also many apps are built with at least 5” screen real estate in mind - so with the keyboard up, I wonder if it would be annoying to type a response/comment. I know I struggled with an OG iPhone SE, and that experience is the source of my concern here. I imagine the target audience probably won’t write lengthy emails on this thing. Eithe…
I found on the original jelly that typing was totally fine when using swiping (not Swype but the built in feature of Google keyboard)
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#30I bought a Jelly Pro a few years ago and I regretted it.
I am part of an on-call schedule but I don't feel comfortable mingling personal devices and work apps and credentials. I wanted an inexpensive device that was small enough I could keep in my pocket with my personal devices. In return for wanting both "cheap" and "small" I was willing to compromise significantly on "performance." All I wanted it to do was to receive texts and phone calls and occasionally a Slack push notification or two.
What I found is that after the OS had been powered on for a few hours, I couldn't even reliably receive texts and phone calls, they would either cause the Phone app to freeze or they just wouldn't ring at all, instead sending a "missed call" push notification minutes later. I don't understand how a company can sell a "phone" that can't even do that much.
I really wanted to like this form factor and still today I would still enjoy having one, but I don't think I could give any more money to Unihertz. I couldn't even get a refund for a clearly defective product.