Nokia 2780 Flip

This flip phone is exactly what an a teenager who is addicted to social media needs. It allows my child to make and receive phone calls, as well as to do basic texts. A simple call to T-Mobile customer service on her prepaid Sim card plan allowed me to shut the data off. It does have Wi-Fi so if your goal is to eliminate social media, you’re going to have to block this device on your router. I have Comcast and it allows me to Restrict Wi-Fi access based upon each device attached to the network. Don’t underestimate your child’s ability to find other Wi-Fi sources, but the operating system on this phone render it relatively useless. The phone can still access the Internet through an installed browser in the operating system, but it’s fairly rudimentary and , I suspect that it in effect eliminates the desire for social media since it’s so difficult to type out a sentence on a numeric keypad. So my recommendation is 1) buy this flip phone 2) get a T-Mobile, prepaid Sim card and pair it to your child’s cell phone number after you’ve ported the number to T-Mobile 3) select the $10 a month prepaid plan 4) call T-Mobile customer service and ask them to shut off the data on that phone number. They will give you our time and tell you that that isn’t an option, but it is an option and you just need to continue to insist on it and speak to a supervisor if they aren’t willing or able to do what you’re asking. 5) finally, block, access to Wi-Fi on your router for this device. If you do those five things, you may have a chance to have your child back and hopefully pull them away from the devastating draw of social media.

This isn't really a basic "feature" phone. KaiOS is a stripped down version of Android running on a little processor that isn't capable of keeping up with the demands of Android bloat. For example, open the phone, and in big numerals it will show you the time _that you last opened the phone_. It may take up to a minute to update and show the actual time. (You can train yourself you read the actual time on the tiny status bar.) Sending a text message? Type slowly because it won't keep up. (And good luck finding basic punctuation marks like the apostrophe or capitalizing a name in the middle of a sentence. And your preferences for which text typing mode you like are constantly being reset to bad defaults.) The UI is unnecessarily cumbersome. If you receive a spam text (aren't they all?), you're going to have to press a lot of buttons several times to delete it. I don't have a data plan because all I need is the occasional call and even rarer SMS message. But if this phone ever gets access to data for even a moment, it starts trying to update. And when that data is interrupted, your notifications will be spammed with a slew of error messages. And, sometimes, that leaves key apps, like your contact list, inaccessible. The beauty of Type C USB connectors is that you can insert them either way. However, if your charger and cable support PD (Power Delivery) and/or QC (Quick Charge), the phone will charge only when the cable is plugged in the "right" way. If you leave it overnight on a charger with the cable the wrong way around, you'll wake up to a dead battery. From what I've read, you have to go out of your way to design a Type C USB port that isn't symmetric. But why would you do that? (And the battery life is terrible compared to previous feature phones I've had. Putting Android under the hood may have been an expedient way to create KaiOS, but you can't throw that at a low power processor and expect it not to burn through the battery.) Oh, I almost forgot about Bluetooth. This phone fails to pair with my car. My car thinks the pairing is successful, but the phone does not. This phone does pair with my wife's car, but not mine. Every other phone I've used was able to pair with both cars. I don't have a great need for a cell phone (coverage at home is spotty at best), so I haven't gone looking for an alternative. Yesterday, however, the phone died, a just few days short of 10 months of very light usage. Outer screen won't light up. Inner screen is filled with random pixel values. If I call it, it doesn't even ring, so it's not _just_ a display failure. This device doesn't reach even the most minimal requirements of a cell phone. If Nokia still cared one iota about its brand name, it never would have authorized this disaster. It's actually worse that the Kazuna eTalk, which I wouldn't have imagined was possible. This is not fit to be called a phone.

This is my second Nokia 2780 Flip, I originally bought my first one directly from HMD website, unlocked. My reasons for purchasing a "dumb phone" were to overcome my screen addiction, have better mental health, and feel more present, detached from a digital world that is constantly pulling you out of your life and into the device. It works great, Google Maps function is simple to use and allows you to navigate the map in real time if you'd like to travel and look at the map to make sure you are going the right way in real time. Photos feel nostalgic and are enjoyable to take. Simple games in case you get bored or catch the intrigue of a young child that has never seen a flip phone before. My first Nokia 2780 Flip lasted one year, I suspect due to how much I allowed it to fall on the floor. A "No command" screen started showing up and did not allow me to reboot. I ordered a phone case for this 2nd one that I ordered directly from Amazon. Would have liked the red color, but it's double the price at the moment on Amazon and I needed a phone urgently after my first phone broke down. I have tried another dumb phone, the Nokia 3210 Dual Sim, which is great to use and also enjoyable, but does not have GPS features, which makes it less convenient for my everyday use.

No WhatsApp support ...

Ad says its universal to all carriers but we have not found it to be so. Will try to get advice from local telstra shop after the festive season when they are more likly to be helpful. Has been un useable . very disappointed.

Bought this for my mom but had to return because there’s no Whatsapp and Facebook app which we wanted to use to chat and data call her. Overall a very good phone for senior people but only for calls and texts.

This does NOT come with a Uk plug only an american plug!!?

Mi papá tiene 69 años, y desde hace años, solo sabe usar los celulares de "tapita". Con el pasar de los años ha sido muy difícil conseguir, siempre son celulares de marca zuum o algo por el estilo. Pero no duran ni 2 años. Como son equipos muy baratos, siempre se le compra uno nuevo que encontremos en el mercado. Cuando vimos este equipo y vimos que ya tenía tecnología 4G y llamadas VOLTE, o sea, un equipo con tecnología de un smartphone, no le pensamos. Teclado fácil de usar, buen sonido y una claridad de llamadas como nunca. Estamos muy felices, tanto que compramos 1 equipo adicional para reserva en algunos años. Lo usamos con TELCEL y sin problemas. No funciona para redes ALTAN.