[gurchik]

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 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.

[superb-owl]

The jelly 2e works much better. Maybe slightly worse than the average android phone I've had, but very much acceptable.

[projektfu]

I never had that problem but the phone did a lot of things in the name of preserving its tiny battery. It was an unreliable running partner and didn't respect any settings to keep apps running. Even then, the battery wouldn't last a full day. I loved the form factor but I'm too forgetful to charge twice a day.

I think lots of apps probably wouldn't work on such a small screen now.

I am tempted to try using one of the new ones.

[Shawnj2]

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.