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Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by Syonyk on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:05PM (#41853115)
Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you.

If you want one that can survive anything life will throw at it, look at the Sonim devices - the XP3+ (flip) or XP5+ (candybar). They're Android Go, have exceptionally good (week and a half, easily) battery life, hotspot just fine, and handle actual use a lot better than the KaiOS toys out there. Maybe 3.x is better, but KaiOS 2.x couldn't handle actual use for more than a few weeks without starting to lag, requiring you to remove texts from it so the interface wasn't glacial, and mine eventually just stopped bothering to notify me about incoming calls and texts, which is your one job... The Android Go stuff seems to actually hold up to sustained moderate use.

Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by WhyNotHugo on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:06PM (#41854352)
> Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you.

Assuming you use something like WhatsApp, Facebook or something alike. Modern "feature phones" include built-in applications for messaging and calling, and you generally can't install anything custom on them.

Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by 0x38B on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:09PM (#41853613)
I used a KaiOS device for about 6 months. My expectations weren’t high, but texting and T9 input were a mess:

A) I had to manually enter captital I, apostrophe, and ‘m’ every time I wanted to write “I’m”.

B) New words (like brand and place names) displace common words in the built-in wordlist - that is, T9 gets worse the more you use it.

It was still an OK digital minimalist/detox device - the GMaps web app with voice search was good enough.

The Android Go devices you mentioned sound far better – I’m never touching KaiOS again.

Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by guestbest on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @12:02PM (#41860702)
Funny, but for number one in your list, PalmOS 3 could do that in 1998 on a 16mhz 32 bit Motorola processor. It was just one of those attention to details that made the platform so nice to use.
Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by bradfa on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:45PM (#41853438)
Do any of these Android Go phones have semi decent cameras? That’s a big holdup for many people.
Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by adastra22 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:49PM (#41853468)
In the context of this thread, that’s what the iPad mini is for.
Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by Syonyk on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @01:51AM (#41855993)
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-... has some sample images from mine - it's an 8MP camera. Not amazing, but also not a 2MP potato.
Re:Apple announces new iPad mini geared towards Apple Intell... by bradfa on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @07:45AM (#41857976)
Thanks! That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for! :)