It’s great. I keep it in my fanny pack.
Edit: it’s a uniherz jelly star (green)
If unihertz supported a viable AOSP alternative they would be the perfect smartphones - the hardware seems fantastic. In fact, if they ever do open up to something like Graphene I might just buy one from each of their lines.
They’re rootable (flashable) from what I’ve read, would just take someone wanting to compile Lineage for it.
At least since it’s bootloader unlockable, you can root it and disable what you want, though as I understand they ship with a pretty vanilla OS.
Yea, not the same as Lineage, but far better than most.
At first I thought, what have I done. Now Im completely at ease with the jelly 2e. Sometimes I have to get something off my old phone and it feels so cumbersome.
I know a few dullards who’d go for the good old small smartphones of the 2010s, but this is even smaller! Does it run a standard smartphone OS, maybe Android compatible? How is usability with large fingers?
It runs full android. In fact, it’s way more powerful than a phone this size has any business being. You can even play (some) games on it with no performance drops at all.
Usability with large fingers is slightly less than normal, but honestly not bad at all. I use a T9 keyboard (pictured below) and it’s great and I type relatively quickly. I have the option of quickly switching to qwerty but T9 does the job well and it’s fun. screenshot
Edit: I did turn up the system font size, which makes things a bit tight sometimes, but honestly it’s very usable without doing that as well.
Thanks! Good ol’ T9.
This you, OP:
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Hahahahaha
How the turns have tabled!
Took me a second for my brain to adjust from thinking you have some seriously large mitts
You can’t fool me with your giant hands!
A phone with a full sized HDMI connector? Neat!
I thought Andre the Giant passed away decades ago…
I’ve had mine since they shipped out the Kickstarter orders (two years). Thing is an amazing piece of engineering. Even has unusual extras like call recording, IR blaster, headphone jack, & an FM radio. About the only thing missing is 5G radio support (unless you care about wireless charging, but it charges so fast that it’s no big deal), although I wish the battery were user-replaceable. At least the AccuBattery app estimates I got one with a capacity roughly 20% over spec.
The next model they came out with would have been the one I’d have waited to get had I known they were working on it, though. The Tank Mini has basically the same specs, but also with a more usable 4.3" screen size, a second programmable function button, roughly 2.75x the battery capacity, a powerful flashlight/emergency warning light (used to also have a laser rangefinder, but they seem to have eliminated that). The battery longevity & extra programmable button would have been good to have.
ETA:
AccuBattery has helped me keep the battery in decent shape even after two years. Basically, the lithium-ion batteries prevalent in phones today will last several more years if you keep them charged in the middle third range (33-66%) as much as possible - doesn’t have to be every time, but the more you do it the more it helps. I’m typing this on my OnePlus 7 Pro that I bought used five years ago - it arrived with 89% of stock capacity, and just dropped below 80% a few months ago because I’ve been doing this. This model is over six years old, and still has decent life left in it (and I virtually never use the selfie cam, but its pop-up one is extremely cool & doesn’t eat a hole in my screen).But the Jelly Star does fit perfectly in the palm of my hand - even with my slightly smaller than average sized hands. It’s fantastic for subtle usage and easy to pocket. The feature list for something so small is unreal even two years later.
I like the tank in theory but the translucent green plastic is like a sirens call to me.
I’m more of a function over form type, so I keep a case on it & don’t even use the glyph lights on the back. Just more proof that it’s great for a variety of use cases.
It sure came in a lot of packaging!
The Unihertz phones look pretty sweet. I watched a review of the one that has a full qwerty keyboard. Like, with buttons. Lots of their phones have IR emitters so you can control TVs and stuff.
Love my Jellyphone as well!
You’ve got a lot of boxes.
All to ship this one phone believe it or not
[X] Believe
Sweet!! Love tiny phones. A few years ago I finally recycled my Nokia 8210 which was the best phone I ever owned (obviously until I got my first iPhone). I was always afraid I would inhale it if conversation got heated.
