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