per @ilmagico@lemmy.world in another comment here:

The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.

I’m not really sure. what happened when it was no longer officially supported?

yeah the screen is very small but that’s kinda the point for my use case. I didn’t want all the limitations of a dumbphone (i.e. I wanted banking apps, gps, useful browser) but I wanted to add friction to my phone use to encourage me to use it less.

battery life is great, lasts me almost 2 days without a charge and will typically go from almost dead to almost full if I plug it in while driving to work. part of the battery life being so good is that I use it less and keep it in grayscale 99% of the time I figure though.

camera is great, it’s 48MP the same as an iPhone 14 Pro. the pictures don’t look great on the device because of the tiny screen but when I look at them on my computer or the pixel 6 I still use at home they look great.

speaker is pretty awful, it’s fine for calls but music, fuhgeddaboudit! I have a Bluetooth clip on speaker that’s great and I don’t really watch videos on it so non-issue, for me at least.

screen res hasn’t bothered me but again that might just be use-case. most of what I do is reading text and it’s fine for that esp with high contrast on, looks ugly but again that’s friction and I want that.

this is definitely a trade off. batteries are either small, tall, or thick. my phone with a 3" screen is quite bulbous.

I prefer that to it being thin and having like 3 hours of use time though

there is one option.

well and a couple others that are also made by Unihertz depending on your needs/wants

more companies making them would be cool but the general consensus I’m reading here is that there are 0 and that is incorrect.

you could get a Unihertz Jelly Star like me

I’m probably gonna annoy people with this but I will shout it from the rooftops

Unihertz makes one.

my Chinese tiny phone has a name, it’s the Unihertz Jelly Star. they even have a subreddit, not sure what makes you think it’s a “no name” they make a lot of phones for niches in today’s world including one with a physical qwerty keyboard.

now the fact that they’re the only company filling those niches sucks, but it’s better than nobody doing it.

I’ve been maining a Unihertz Jelly Star, I quite like it.

“arcane academic patois” is peak. you win the internet today.

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