Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

unihertz.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–67 of 67 posts

Re: Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

#61

Post by Shawnj2 »

gurchik wrote: post #30

I 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 rec…

Honestly you would probably be better off with an iPhone SE (the original one) for that use case today as long as Slack still works on iOS 15.

Re: Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

#62

Post by THENATHE »

hedora wrote: post #50
dchuk wrote: post #25

Anybody 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)

If you try to maintain the same level of privacy as iOS (no unencrypted personal information server-side), then android is basically unusable. The main issue is that most apps require location services or other google stuff that also needlessly sends private data to google. (There are attempts to reimplement the location services api, but they were all flaky for me). It’s not just that one service, and in practice ap…

The real problem is that you sacrifice privacy for quality of life.

I have had so many fucking bugs with my iPhone 13 Pro Max:

The camera fucking SUCKS, even compared to my pixel 2 xl. Every photo looks like a cheap watercolor. And the computational photography (night mode) is fucking terrible. The image stabilization is nonexistent compared to the pixel 2 xl, and don’t even get me started on video stabilization

The keyboard will randomly get earsplittingly loud for no reason at all and will have huge typing delay.

Notifications are just worse

My messages app crashes frequently, and contact pictures refuse to show up about half the time

They keyboard is fucking awful compared to gboard, and the iOS gboard isn’t good

Google assistant is orders of magnitude better than Siri, and let’s be real: if you use any assistant it is going to listen to you

Apple Maps is terrible compared to google maps, and apple optionally chooses to gimp the lock screen navigation of everything besides Apple Maps (also yelp )

Voice typing is truly horrendous

The notes app is shit, just doesn’t work very well

I could keep going, but having been on apple thrice and android 4 times, I’m throughly done with apple unless they make some MASSIVE changes

Re: Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

#63

Post by Crespyl »

grishka wrote: post #57
TT-392 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you tried 8pen/8vim, it looks like it makes more sense than qwerty for the small screen, though, it has a bit of a learning curve. Also, I know that for japanese, you have those 12 key keyboards, where holding down while dragging up, down, left, or right, means different characters. I think that could work for other languages as well.

> I think that could work for other languages as well. That was exactly what I built for Russian and English, see my linked thread. It ended up not working as well as I imagined. Maybe I should be smarter with the layout instead of making it alphabetical. > 8pen/8vim Neither of them support Russian :( 8vim does have a Ukrainian layout file but while similar, there are some letters that Russian has but Ukrainian lacks…

You might want to try out MessagEase, which is a flick syle keyboard like the Japanese ones mentioned above.

There's room for a lot of punctuation on the same layer as the alphabet, plus support for ctrl/alt/F-keys. I find it great for working with ssh.

Re: Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

#65

Post by igetspam »

Just got one to stuff into my kid's backpack, for tracking and emergencies. I'm probably going to buy a Unihertz for myself, when it's time to upgrade. It's a little thick but it fits in a pocket so much better. I'd actually trade but the size is necessary for stashing in her bag.

Re: Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

#66

Post by MiddleEndian »

joshspankit wrote: post #60
MiddleEndian wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah the manufacturer isn't pushing anything, this phone hasn't been updated by the manufacturer in many years. It's the apps that are slowing down. I have replaced the Palm Phone with newer Palm Phones after breaking a couple, the battery life isn't any better. For me, the tradeoff is still worth it for now because it has the best form factor. But at some point within the next decade, it will become impossible.

> Nah the manufacturer isn't pushing anything, this phone hasn't been updated by the manufacturer in many years. That’s what I was thinking, and my instinct says you could just keep using it for another decade. > It’s the apps that are slowing down. That doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s one of the reasons I mentioned above: their internal DB getting too large (solution: wipe data), or the app company pushing upda…

>the app company pushing updates.

It's not one specific app. I need to use up-to-date versions of apps to connect to various services, and I need to visit modern versions of websites because those are the only websites that are available. They are increasingly resource intensive but my phone will not get any faster. Therefore at some point, this phone will become unusable. Probably within five years.

Post reply on HN