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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There is at least the Unihertz Jellystar, which is a fairly nice tiny phone. Personally I'm likely stuck with Pixel phones because I'm a big fan of Graphene OS, otherwise I'd likely pick one up after my Pixel 4a fails, which might be awhile, since it's still going strong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of the Jelly Star! $200 bucks?! I just ordered one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fucking awesome phone. Been my daily driver for a week now.

Typing is horrible, tough, and for anything serious (browsing, streaming...) you will want a bigger screen and general more build quality. Camera, sound quality, screen are all screaming low end.

Super fast charging because the battery is tiny, sill good SOT because the screen is tiny too.

Feels damn good to be able to use and hold your phone one handed in almost any orientation you can hold your arm in.

Keyboard: AnySoftKey and a Compact layout (2 keys, 1 button) is very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of thumb-key keyboard? It's basically a 3x3 grid with swipe gestures for extra characters. I've been trying to switch to it for a bit cause I think eventually my typing will be faster and it will be a better one handed typing experience.

Anyway, I think this would work well on a small screen device too, if you can get used to a whole new keyboard paradigm.

It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo for f-droid.

Hope this is helpful to someone!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tried ThumbKey and realized, I'm 100 % used to QWERY/QWERTZ keyboard layouts. The ThumbKey keys are not in roughly the same spots as on a regular keyboard and I just couldn't get used to this. Damn brain. I might give it another try in the future, because the idea is damn great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I had the same problem. I just had to commit to being a slow typer for a while, but I inproved quicker than I thought. Still learning tho. I keep a regular keyboard I can switch to with the button on the bottom right of the home buttons for the rare times I need to type something urgently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I've been using mine since Christmas

It's amazing how capable this thing is with such a tiny screen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, cool! Hope you like it dude :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Holy shit, That thing is absolutely TINY

Almost too tiny for me…

4.5 - 5.5 would probably be the sweetspot for me.