Very much in keeping with the weird and wonderful theme I’d started with the AGM M7, the Unihertz Jelly Star was my next phone.
The idea behind this one being it’s a fully fledged Android smartphone in a miniscule package. The display is 3 inches diagonally and it weighs just 116 grams. You can do everything you would ever do on any other smartphone you just don’t have much screen to play with.
Day to day usage of this phone wasn’t bad. The battery lasted fine. I could do what I needed to, even have things like banking apps and contactless payments.
The problems came whenever I had to use the keyboard. I have quite large hands, and wide thumbs so trying to poke a letter on the keyboard was more a game of luck and chance than it was one of accuracy. Swipe to text worked to a degree, but I still struggled as I couldn’t see where the swipe pattern actually was on the phone.
While this phone serves some people very well, and actually seems to be the answer for people lowering their screen time without making too many sacrifices for me it was just a fun gimmick. It was fun to show people who were generally amazed a phone could be that small, the illuminated rear was novel (but still a shameless Nothing rip off) and it really was full featured.
In the end though it didn’t really matter. I was unable to use the phone. Thankfully this marked the last device in my peculiar device spree.
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