Gadgetory

playing around with some gadgets before the onslaught which is MWC this odd little device landed on my desk appears to be some form of mobile communication device but it has buttons instead of a touchscreen and the main display is hidden under the hinged flap there aren't many apps no way to add more that we can find and the main usage seems to be focused on talking now i'll joking aside this is a newer phone released by AT&T is a go phone which begs the question in this age of mobile data and services could you go back to using a dumb phone there's a fun nostalgia over firing up a device like this that I can remember exactly how excited I was to own an early 3g nokia phone with Bluetooth and a camera none of those things are particularly exciting today though the construction is solid griffie textures plastic on the front and back easy to hold them easy to flip open so much of this really does feel like it was ripped out of the past very few areas that seem like they might have been upgraded for the current year the interface depends on these selection buttons navigating through menus with this d-pad hang-up will always take you back to the main home screen and shortcuts take you to text and the camera yes this does have a camera on the back it's not very good but I am get alia excited to see that photos come out landscape when pointing the phone vertically I wish smartphones would force videos the same way like how old flip cameras used to operate another blast from the past is the Micro SIM happily 18t sent along us in because I couldn't find my nano 2 micro adapter there is a micro SD card slot to expand storage take that pixel and iPhone no issues packing 32 GBS for photos and media it's a 3G phone so there is a web browser but you won't want to use it text entry takes us back to the old p9 days and loading webpages is sort of a mess of slow download and formatting issues that runs double for texting going back to t9 makes me miss slider keyboard something fierce if you're watching videos on this channel obviously this phone probably isn't for you unless you really have some issues with larger phones and skinny jeans the chances are pretty good that's the phone of your smartphone is really one of the least used apps on your smartphone there are some folks out there however who might benefit from this device recently we tried to find a good replacement phone for my grandfather who just never really got into using a smart phone he still needs a good communication device and the focus on calls here would be right up his alley add to that it was nice carrying around a phone which got multiple days of battery life ATT estimates around three hundred and sixty hours of talk time and up to twenty two days of standby time I couldn't make a dent in that while testing this phone out so I'm inclined to believe their estimates so let's wrap this up where does that leave us with the singular flip to answer the question asked by this video's title no no I cannot go back to a dumb phone I lasted exactly one day before the flip was relegated to a companion device tied to my Google Voice account but I don't think it's a terrible idea for carriers to have some legacy options like these for people who want something super simple just covering the basics of making calls listening to some music and painfully punching out a short text here and there it's really not a terrible idea in this day and age that a flip phone still exists and that's about as much as I feel we really need to talk about this phone as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our normal coverage on smartphones tablets and wearables and help us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks for PocketNow i'm juan carlos bag now so i'm gadget guy on twitter and instagram and i will catch you all on the next review