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65 lines
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title: Nokia 2780 Review
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date: 2024-01-21
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tags:
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- featurephone
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I've been using a Nokia 2780 flip phone instead of my Pixel 6 smartphone
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for a few days now.
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Here are my notes about it.
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# Better than the Smartphone
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* Fits in my pocket better: it's thicker, but smaller in the other two dimensions
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* Battery lasts for days, not hours
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* Speakerphone is somehow better
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* Voice calls have lower latency: I don't feel like I'm interrupting people
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* FM Radio
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* Almost no compulsion to "check my phone": I know there's nothing going on there
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* Conversation starter: nearly everyone who sees it wants to tell me about
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a fond memory of a featurephone they once used
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# Same as the Smartphone
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* Connects to WiFi
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* Can act as hotspot
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* Basic calculator
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* Plays music
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* Group SMS support
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* Calendar with reminders, syncs to Google
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* Modern web browser with JavaScript
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* Email client, syncs to Google
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* Google Maps
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# Worse than the Smartphone, but tolerable
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* Camera is just okay
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* Group SMS displays a blank subject before every message
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* Google Maps doesn't have POV mode: you have to manually advance to the next turn
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* No "location sharing", people can't see where you are, and you can't see where they are
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* Only syncs one calendar
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* Email is just the body: PDF attachments have to be saved and opened in another app
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* Contact syncing breaks, so I had to manually transfer my core contacts
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* Google's contacts for me is massive, I don't recognize most of these people
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* Maybe this is actually a feature?
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* QR Code Reader is an app (has ads)
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* Podcast app has ads
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* MMS (group texts, or photos) can take a few minutes to arrive when the phone is closed.
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This may be a power saving issue.
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* Multimedia text messages must be opened to display them
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* 200x320 screen resolution (smartphone is 2400x1080!)
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* Limited set of emoji on keyboard
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# Bad
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* Headphone jack doesn't detect speakers, only headphones
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* No way to automatically mute sounds during "quiet hours" (like, when you are asleep)
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* Predictive text input guesses one 4 means "g", not "I"
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* Will not play FLAC files
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* "Battery Full" notification can't be disabled
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* No international keyboard: goodbye, diacriticals!
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