Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

The Jelly Star is interesting too, another 3&quot; phone with Android 13 and better specs than the 2e: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unihertz.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;jelly-star" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unihertz.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;jelly-star</a>

I bought a Jelly Pro a few years ago and I regretted it.<p>I am part of an on-call schedule but I don&#x27;t feel comfortable mingling personal devices and work apps and credentials. I wanted an inexpensive device that was small enough I could keep in my pocket with my personal devices. In return for wanting both &quot;cheap&quot; and &quot;small&quot; I was willing to compromise significantly on &quot;performance.&quot; All I wanted it to do was to receive texts and phone calls and occasionally a Slack push notification or two.<p>What I found is that after the OS had been powered on for a few hours, I couldn&#x27;t even reliably receive texts and phone calls, they would either cause the Phone app to freeze or they just wouldn&#x27;t ring at all, instead sending a &quot;missed call&quot; push notification minutes later. I don&#x27;t understand how a company can sell a &quot;phone&quot; that can&#x27;t even do that much.<p>I really wanted to like this form factor and still today I would still enjoy having one, but I don&#x27;t think I could give any more money to Unihertz. I couldn&#x27;t even get a refund for a clearly defective product.

You know, I like it. But using an on-screen keyboard on that would be exhausting. Also many apps are built with at least 5” screen real estate in mind - so with the keyboard up, I wonder if it would be annoying to type a response&#x2F;comment. I know I struggled with an OG iPhone SE, and that experience is the source of my concern here.<p>I imagine the target audience probably won’t write lengthy emails on this thing. Either way, glad to see some cheap and small Android phone that looks relatively nonsense-free.

I&#x27;ve been using the Unihertz Atom for three and a half years now. I absolutely love it. The GPS is better than my Sony Xperia had. I&#x27;ve thrown it across rooms to demonstrate how durable it is. Its small size is always a conversation starter.<p>A few months ago I bought the new Jelly, and while it has a slightly larger screen, I didn&#x27;t like the updated version of Android. I went back to my Atom. If anything happened to it, I would immediately buy another without a second thought.

Anybody ever switch from iPhone to android back and forth? I’m Apple products top to bottom but wouldn’t hate being able to switch to something like this for a few weeks at a time to change my habits…but it just seems gnarly and painful to make that kind of switch given how deep I am into Apple ecosystem (photos, iMessage, etc)

I use this as my main phone. I&#x27;ll never go back. It&#x27;s exactly the cure I needed for smartphone addiction.

I had an Atom XL. Unihertz give up supporting their (very buggy) software quickly, and their tech support is poor. Their entire business model seems to be to churn out new phones as fast as possible to pull in new customers.<p>While I&#x27;d love to see different form factors being successful, steer clear of Unihertz.

It has an IR blaster. Why is this the only phone I&#x27;ve seen in ages with an IR blaster? And the rest of its specs look decent, although the battery is a little poor and the lack of USB OTG is a bit unfortunate. Still, if it had decent 3rd-party ROM support I&#x27;d actually consider it.

I have a Titan Pocket and just love it. Unihertz has also been a fantastic company to interact with: I broke my titan, walked into the ocean, and they replaced it for a small fraction of the purchase cost.<p>I only wish the camera was better.<p>That said, I think this Jelly looks like a good phone for my kids.

I&#x27;m still using my Palm Phone, as I find it better looking and I think the form factor is nicer than the Unihertz phones. I am able to type pretty easily with Microsoft&#x27;s swipe text keyboard.<p>But as it was not particularly fast in 2018, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until software becomes too slow to use on the phone. Even opening the text messaging app has a visual lag nowadays. The battery life is also not great; I don&#x27;t really care but it seems to annoy my friends lol.<p>Eventually I&#x27;ll probably end up with a Unihertz, but I&#x27;m still holding out for a new similarly sleek small phone from Palm.

I just want a dumb phone which does simple SMS and phone calls, but every brand I try has weird glitches that mess up texting. I just want an oldschool nokia

The phone doesn’t fit into a pocket as well as an iPhone SE since it’s thicker which overall is a much better phone. It’s also not as small as a smartwatch that can also replace a phone and the smartwatch is even more restrictive than this is if you’re “digital detoxing”<p>I don’t see the appeal outside the price and that small android’s are hard to come by.

Just got one to stuff into my kid&#x27;s backpack, for tracking and emergencies. I&#x27;m probably going to buy a Unihertz for myself, when it&#x27;s time to upgrade. It&#x27;s a little thick but it fits in a pocket so much better. I&#x27;d actually trade but the size is necessary for stashing in her bag.

I was rocking an Orchid F1 for a few months with talk text and navigation.<p>It ran a super old version of Android and didn&#x27;t have a browser. It scratched a &quot;detox&quot; itch but made me less reachable at work in a way I felt made me less valuable so I I went back to a smart phone.<p>This phone seems like a good happy medium that adds friction at the right places.

Here’s a really fun review of the Jelly 2 that someone showed me a few months ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxread.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-worlds-stupidest-smallest-smartphone" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maxread.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-worlds-stupidest-smallest...</a>

I ran the universe Titan for about 9 months. I really wanted a keyboard and I figured the small screen would help curb my usage.<p>While it was fun, I found too many apps simply can’t handle that small of a screen. It annoyed me to the point that I switched back to nearly the largest screen I could find.

Reminds me a bit of my old Palm Pre from 2009. I really miss that damn phone.

I don&#x27;t understand how the smartphone market is so enormous but the variety is so small. Why do I have to carry around a phone over twice as tall as it is wide when the space my thumb can reach is roughly circular? If I&#x27;m holding my phone balanced in my hand I can neither reach the navigation area at the bottom nor the notification area at the top. If I get a phone small enough to reach the whole screen it&#x27;s so narrow I&#x27;m wasting a ton of potential width.<p>Sell me a 16:9 phone again dammit.

I own the first Jelly and it was absolutely unusable and badly in every way. Avoid!!

Bring back the slider!

I just looking for something like this. Thanks.

Does the phone screen PWM free?

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