Nokia 2780 Flip | Unlocked | KaiOS | Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile | Blue

Our oldest is 17 and has had an iPhone since around 13. It hasn’t really been until recent years that Snapchat and social media have at times led to a stereotypical bed rotting teen. A few things pushed me over the edge. I may only pay for a phone for one more year, but I’m making the most of it. Paid to remove the iPhone from our account and opted for the $90 Nokia. He was annoyed first thing, then laughed, then went to school and to my surprise his friends and teachers actually thought highly of it. Who knows, maybe he’ll start a trend. I love my son more than anything. Should have done this years ago!

This isn't really a basic "feature" phone. KaiOS is a stripped down version of Android running on a little processor that isn't capable of keeping up with the demands of Android bloat. For example, open the phone, and in big numerals it will show you the time _that you last opened the phone_. It may take up to a minute to update and show the actual time. (You can train yourself you read the actual time on the tiny status bar.) Sending a text message? Type slowly because it won't keep up.(And good luck finding basic punctuation marks like the apostrophe or capitalizing a name in the middle of a sentence. And your preferences for which text typing mode you like are constantly being reset to bad defaults.)The UI is unnecessarily cumbersome. If you receive a spam text (aren't they all?), you're going to have to press a lot of buttons several times to delete it.I don't have a data plan because all I need is the occasional call and even rarer SMS message. But if this phone ever gets access to data for even a moment, it starts trying to update. And when that data is interrupted, your notifications will be spammed with a slew of error messages. And, sometimes, that leaves key apps, like your contact list, inaccessible.The beauty of Type C USB connectors is that you can insert them either way. However, if your charger and cable support PD (Power Delivery) and/or QC (Quick Charge), the phone will charge only when the cable is plugged in the "right" way. If you leave it overnight on a charger with the cable the wrong way around, you'll wake up to a dead battery. From what I've read, you have to go out of your way to design a Type C USB port that isn't symmetric. But why would you do that? (And the battery life is terrible compared to previous feature phones I've had. Putting Android under the hood may have been an expedient way to create KaiOS, but you can't throw that at a low power processor and expect it not to burn through the battery.)Oh, I almost forgot about Bluetooth. This phone fails to pair with my car. My car thinks the pairing is successful, but the phone does not. This phone does pair with my wife's car, but not mine. Every other phone I've used was able to pair with both cars.I don't have a great need for a cell phone (coverage at home is spotty at best), so I haven't gone looking for an alternative. Yesterday, however, the phone died, a just few days short of 10 months of very light usage. Outer screen won't light up. Inner screen is filled with random pixel values. If I call it, it doesn't even ring, so it's not _just_ a display failure.This device doesn't reach even the most minimal requirements of a cell phone. If Nokia still cared one iota about its brand name, it never would have authorized this disaster. It's actually worse that the Kazuna eTalk, which I wouldn't have imagined was possible. This is not fit to be called a phone.

So I've had my Nokia 2780 flip phone for about a week now I charged the battery to 100%, which took probably 10 minutes 20 minutes using my computer USB port I have not charged the phone since the first day I've had it and it's sitting at 57% battery left After 6 DAYS !!!!I have Mobile data turned off, Wifi Off, Bluetooth Off, And Wifi hotspot turned off.DID KNOW YOU CAN STILL GET CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES WITH MOBILE DATA TURNED OFF !Now I tried turning on ADB / devtools to be able to pull or remove Google apps off of the phone to increase the battery life even but it is debugged locked and I cannot try other methods to get in there and and do that but I don't know enough about Linux and Android to be able to mess around with the operating system.I did look at a replacement battery I found online that was 1700 milliamps and it was a Lithium Polymer battery which is a longer lasting battery then the lithium ion 1400 milliamp battery that it came with. Was just looking at future battery replacements.As you can see I have a custom wallpaper on there I'm a huge Star Trek fan so I added a Lcars wallpaper to make it look cool.I can change the phone to have a custom ringtone but you cannot change the notification sounds on the phone which is kind of disappointing and sort of a basic feature on almost most phones.I guess one of the best features about this phone is the fact that I don't have to chase application and operating system and security updates anymore the phones kind of locked into what it is and what it will be.I LOVE THIS PHONE !1st picture is on my phone, 2nd picture is of the Wall Paper i made for my phone.~Travis