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by aidenn0 1565 days ago
I'm typing this from a Unihertz Jelly 2. It's small enough that people make jokes about it when I pull it out.

It cost $200 with 128GB of ram and a case included.

Battery life gets me through the day, and no more, but it charges fast.

I thought the keyboard would be bad, but it's quite usable after you get used to it. I'm probably 90% as fast as on a full sized phone.

The camera, on the other hand is just bad. Like $200 Android phone from 2016 bad.

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I was adding info on how app use in it is when the edit-window closed...

Most apps are actually fine, if a bit cramped. The exception is dialogs. I usually have to scroll to see all options. You get used to it, but it isn't great.

Webpages are alright, but I do occasionally need to hide the keyboard while filling out forms to see feedback provided below the input (e.g. username already taken, passwords don't match, invalid CC #).

I've never really gamed on my phones, so can't speak there.

The one thing I did with a larger phone that I don't do on my Jelly2 is read things like textbooks and comics where images and text need to be laid out like print. It's too small to fit a whole page of legible text and images at once. 720 horizontal pixels and a 5" screen is the minimum there IMO, though really this is what e-ink tablets were made for.

Does it run a non-Google/free OS? My primary qualm about switching to a budget Android phone from an iPhone is the security and privacy aspect, which seems okay under Apple but atrocious under Google/Android.
I'm not aware of one. The bootloader is unlockable from ADB and there's a TWRP image for it though.
I couldn't find any ROMs and that SoC (mt6771) doesn't have upstream kernel support.
Though someone did piece together a LineageOS image for the Atom-L which uses the same SoC: https://cgit.typeblog.net/android/device/unihertz/Atom_L/
"It's small enough that people make jokes about it when I pull it out."

Wait, this isn't Reddit. I shouldn't...

> It cost $200 with 128GB of ram and a case included.

Now that is a beefy phone. What mobile SoC even supports this much RAM?

I meant storage. It has 6gb ram