I had the original Jelly. Had high hopes of getting a small modern phone, with minimal features but no time wasting apps, but returned it.
Battery life was hours. It wasn’t safe to take to work because it’d be dead in an hour of listening to music on the commute.
Phone call quality was so poor my family and coworkers went mutiny. I could hear them fine but the mic was awful, apparently.
The screen was so, so small that it took a long time to type, and was fraught with mistakes. I realized there is such a thing as too small.
Every picture taken was uselessly blurry.
Overall it felt like the early 2000s.
I would greatly be willing to try again. I need to upgrade this iPhone SE. Call me crazy, but having a phone that fits in my pocket, no matter what I’m wearing - that’s the best feature a phone could have.
listening to audio should not drain your battery. i get an hour of audio even if my battery is down to 10%. it hardly takes more energy than what the phone consumes when idle.
if audio drains the battery then there is a serious design flaw
I use a Sony XZ1C now, though. The battery lifetime of the Jelly was a problem when I was travelling, and at 52 years I need a bit larger fonts. I wonder whether to get this one, though... Unihertz rocks, the phone supports the android upgrade stuff (DSU), the battery might just be big enough for me, AND: I loved the way the Jelly just wasn't a timewaste magnet. It let me run apps, very functional.
Actually I have the Jelly Pro and am taking it almost every time with me while doing sports wrapped around my upper arm. It is lightweight and I can have and use (almost) any android app on it. It is just nice to have a tiny device for playing music from Google Play Music/ YouTube Music and to have GPS tracking in that format. But I can only recommend it as a second or third device... for browsing, navigating or texting the display is too small and the apps are not optimized for that format.
I had the Atom - cheap phone not even powerful enough to show a heavily javascripted page; it was just about usable, but definitely needs patience and very good eyesight.
Their bundled software is quite glitchy but what I could not forgive, is that they don't provide the source code, which I heard was some kind of a GPL violation but they don't care.
I used it for about 3 or 4 months and then the new SE came out.
Served it's purpose, but looking back, using it feels like it was some sort of penance.
I have the original Jelly and use it a lot when I travel back to my home country, so I don't have to change SIMs. VERY liberating to suddenly not having to carry a larger device. Not much app-use for me though: phone calls, Signal, SMS and an occasional Google search or map.
