WhatsApp users! It's been recently found out that WhatsApp is gonna get discontinued soon in KaiOS. New users can't register a phone number anymore, and it seems that by next year the app will not be operational anymore.
My problem with smartphones is that it's almost mandated to own one... banking, buying tickets, parking meters, shop loyalty cards and a lot of things only exist as apps.
I highly recommend trying to fit in a dumb phone in your life. If you still have to use a smartphone, you can just keep it without mobile data and use Wi-Fi Tethering from your dumb phone when necessary (if you find one that's capable of doing that). I currently keep a smartphone in my backpack that I can use for Google Maps if necessary, but the flip phone is in my pocket.
@@ArnauDisrepairSo this phone (the Energizer E282SC) supports wifi tethering? I'm considering getting one, and wifi tethering is a feature I really need.
That's a good video! I'm a Japanese writer. The name is ``Mikan Oshidari（忍足みかん🍊）''. I'm writing a book called ``I Want to Quit Being a Smartphone Slave.'' I switched to a flip phone because of my smartphone addiction. It's all about mental health. I no longer get tired of smartphone screens, notification sounds, and unnecessary connections. It's comfortable. Only the really necessary communications will come to your flip phone. There is no inconvenience. I think flip phones should be reevaluated more globally. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Hi, thanks for your comment! I looked up your name on Google and saw an article about you and I really like your approach to smartphones. I'm quite interested in this book you're writing, and I'll totally check it out once it's done.
@@ArnauDisrepair Thank you for your reply...and for looking into me. My book ``I want to quit being a slave to my smartphone'' was written in Japanese. Too bad there's no English version... (There are many illustrations, so even if you can't read the main text, you might enjoy it a little.) But my dream is to publish an English version someday. I hear that there is growing interest in smartphone addiction overseas as well. (The other day I saw an article in the New York Times about turning your smartphone into a flip phone.) I want to tell people all over the world about the horrors of smartphone addiction and the benefits of flip phones.
Thanks for the review, I was eyeing this phone so I'm glad you were able to give me some information on it. Only thing I would have liked maybe is for this phone to be slightly less bloated and faster.
Once I pay off my smartphone I might get a flip phone permanently. Going to have to get one today bc my phone screen randomly broke one day which is a common problem with the model I have that I should’ve known about before I bought my phone. Anyways smartphones just aren’t reliable anymore. All I need is something with sms and calling. I’d like something with Snapchat and Discord, but that’s why I have a computer and iPad.
in your goal to escape the smartphones and the waste of time on social media, you bought this phone just to tell us it has a WhatsApp, youtube, facebook on it. Good job bro
The RUclips/Facebook experience sucks so much on this that it's like it doesn't exist. And I don't consider WhatsApp as a bad thing, as it's for communication, and that's what a phone's supposed to do, right?
My smartphone really started to annoy me, using it too much, wasting my time. Now I too wil get a dumb/featurephone (I too rely on whatsapp) and use any other apps on my pc or my tablet. Got the Samsung galaxy tab A8 for a cheap price, it's good enough to run any apps I need, and large enough that I wont use it much. Smartphones aren't phones, they're PDA's you can also call with.
That's nice! If I were someone that carries a bag around, I would also do that. Funnily enough, that's how the first couple of smartphones pre-iPhone were. Just PDAs that happened to take calls. Some Nokia "smartphone" was literally a PDA that clipped on to a normal cell phone.
i have a flipphone that i use for 2 weeks of the month and then i use my samsung phone for the other 2 weeks of the month so im not fully disconnected from my social media
hello, i need to ask one question about this phone, what material is keyboard made from? i mean, is it soft-touch plastic or kinda rubber-ish plastic? this is very important for me. Here is what i think about switching to flip phone: its a great idea but world just expects you tu have smartphone. all that like scanning qr code in the restaraunt or else feels kinda wrong, people should think about phone as an optional choice, not essential thing everyone should have
Keyboard is a hard plastic, has a tactile button click. This phone has a QR scanner but I wouldn't want to browse a menu with that phone. I am finding that some restaurants are going back to physical menus, but that depends on your area.
yes it can play music, has bluetooth and a headphone jack. to add music to it: ruclips.net/video/Xpnih_WGM_E/видео.htmlsi=l4cDfMiQPYHc8k9o&t=538 start at 8:58
Did you root the phone in order for it to look the way it does? (no annoying google assistant and google on the left side of the screen). Like 6 months ago I bought an Energizer kaios candybar phone and it was a total let down. The software was fine but the hardware was so bad (call audio coming out from THE SPEAKER and the keypad was so hard to press). Is the flip factor better? Is the keypad comfortable and snappy? Does the sound during calls come from the right "output" exit?
Nice review. I noticed Google Maps icon on the screen. Does it actually work (gps)? I would like to give the phone to my parents and send myself a permanent gps pin on Google Maps. Would that be possible? That would be a great solution for seniors.
¡Hola! La batería dura más de un día entero con uso medio. Si lo usas poquito, te puede durar hasta la mañana del tercer día. Suficiente para irte un fin de semana y no necesitar un cargador. edit: veo que tú también eres fan de james scholz ;)
@@ArnauDisrepair Yep. I'm a power user. Even penetration test tge feature phones in my collection and have even found some entry points! Qualcomm BREW isn't exactly... securely designed... Imagine jailbreaking, but on the LG Voyager. My main phone is an iPhone 10 though.
@@ArnauDisrepair Oh, and because I'm in _The Zone(TM):_ "Legacy Portable Computing Wiki" is a nice resource on those old 2G/3G feature phones. I've even helped add info to there and co created the SPH-M330 and LG Voyager pages. (But most of the credit goes to users like "Dumbphonepreservation" that have taken my awful rambling walls of text into nice readable, well formatted, pages!) Programs like "Bitpim" and "QCSuper" are really useful for pulling the files off these old devices. Hopefully someday me, or someone, will finally create a softmod that can bypass Qualcomm BREW's DRM and allow unsigned code execution. Also, wish the 2G and 3G CDMA networks still existed! These older phones are SO MUCH BETTER then these modern "dumb phones" and it would be HILARIOUS to flip an old Motorola W376g out in public and see people's reactions!
To bad that USA only has Flip phones that i like. And they don't work in EU. KaiOS really sucks. It needs a clean Android OS. And most dumb Flip phones don't have 5G. It's a battery consumption problem. Nokia still doesn't want to make a durable rugged budget android flip phones. I need android because i want to use WhatsApp and Stocard.
I don't know why you do this, like... If you don't want to be distracted by social media just delete the social media apps. You're downgrading to something so bad for a problem that doesn't even exist.
I've done that! But instead of using the app, I would use the website. The whole point is to downgrade to something where there is no way I would be able to use social media.
@@ArnauDisrepair But downgrading to something that bad is not worth it. Just think a bit before opening the website, or add a family lock to yourself. So you can avoid entering social media and websites. I could not use that even if they paid me, not because I couldn't use social media, more that the experience is so bad I would rather have nothing.
Yes, I've also done that. I've done every trick in the book to prevent me from using social media. It works for a week or so, but I always end up using it anyway. I've been trying to do this since January. My decision to use a flip phone is because it's the only thing that is truly working. With it, as you've said, trying to use social media is so bad that it's better to not try. I can still take phone calls, and I can still do text messaging (I'm now used to using the phone keypad, and I'm good enough to have a conversation) but social media is so painful that I can't use it, and that's what I intended to happen.
@@ArnauDisrepair I am not saying that the social media experience is bad, I'm talking about your flip phone's user experience. I am fine with social media. I check it from time to time to keep in touch with friends or if I'm bored... And, as I said, you can just put a parental control to yourself, and put a password only your friend knows, or a sibling knows, so you can't remove it. I don't understand how you could remove that.
Well, I don't have the same experience you have with social media. Honestly, I don't give a damn about what my friends post on Instagram and if I do, I'd rather ask them in person. Twitter makes me miserable, and RUclips wastes too much of my time. If I'm bored, I'd rather have to call a friend or play some video game. I do use RUclips at night usually, but I'm only signed in on my tablet, so I can only use it when I'm home. And about the password thing, I'm often the only person at home. I don't have siblings and my parents are at work for most of the day. Not having access to the password would cause me to find some web browser that doesn't work with the parental controls (probably Firefox in iOS?) and just use that.
I've been thinking about buying something like this as well because it can run most of the apps i use like youtube, messenger and wattpad, it is also more comfortable to use as it doesn't strain your hand because of its size and more comfortable to use the keypad .. Been planning to switch this year 🫶 but still looking what phone i should choose. Thank you
This website josebriones.org/dumbphone-finder may be of help. There are some Android dumbphones that can run your typical apps. I'm looking at the Xiaomi Qin F21 Pro, but they are Chinese so you have to find a cracked one to get the Play Store and sideloading support.
@@ArnauDisrepair Thanks . I already have 2 phones i'm thinking to buy but i'm still looking for some reviews or unboxing of it; to see if it's worth to buy or not .
WhatsApp users! It's been recently found out that WhatsApp is gonna get discontinued soon in KaiOS.
New users can't register a phone number anymore, and it seems that by next year the app will not be operational anymore.
My problem with smartphones is that it's almost mandated to own one... banking, buying tickets, parking meters, shop loyalty cards and a lot of things only exist as apps.
Nothing stops you from having one that's always offline except for emergencies!
Same here! QR codes are all over campus, and some events/courses require you to scan them for various reasons, and it's very frustrating.
you could get the cat s22
@@Ilan444 I’ve been hearing about them. Is it a good phone? Also does it take t mobile? And can I get unlimited talk and text? With hotspot
Stop using them and they’ll change.
I want to switch for the same reasons. Everyone is trying to talk me out of it!! Some of us just don't need a smart phone
I highly recommend trying to fit in a dumb phone in your life. If you still have to use a smartphone, you can just keep it without mobile data and use Wi-Fi Tethering from your dumb phone when necessary (if you find one that's capable of doing that). I currently keep a smartphone in my backpack that I can use for Google Maps if necessary, but the flip phone is in my pocket.
Go for it! Don't let people stop you from doing what makes you happy
@@ArnauDisrepairSo this phone (the Energizer E282SC) supports wifi tethering? I'm considering getting one, and wifi tethering is a feature I really need.
That's a good video! I'm a Japanese writer. The name is ``Mikan Oshidari（忍足みかん🍊）''. I'm writing a book called ``I Want to Quit Being a Smartphone Slave.'' I switched to a flip phone because of my smartphone addiction. It's all about mental health. I no longer get tired of smartphone screens, notification sounds, and unnecessary connections. It's comfortable. Only the really necessary communications will come to your flip phone. There is no inconvenience. I think flip phones should be reevaluated more globally. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Hi, thanks for your comment!
I looked up your name on Google and saw an article about you and I really like your approach to smartphones. I'm quite interested in this book you're writing, and I'll totally check it out once it's done.
@@ArnauDisrepair
Thank you for your reply...and for looking into me. My book ``I want to quit being a slave to my smartphone'' was written in Japanese. Too bad there's no English version... (There are many illustrations, so even if you can't read the main text, you might enjoy it a little.) But my dream is to publish an English version someday. I hear that there is growing interest in smartphone addiction overseas as well. (The other day I saw an article in the New York Times about turning your smartphone into a flip phone.) I want to tell people all over the world about the horrors of smartphone addiction and the benefits of flip phones.
Thanks for the review, I was eyeing this phone so I'm glad you were able to give me some information on it. Only thing I would have liked maybe is for this phone to be slightly less bloated and faster.
Im using my tcl flip pro now
I use feature phone too. But we just can call each other by smart phone.
Once I pay off my smartphone I might get a flip phone permanently. Going to have to get one today bc my phone screen randomly broke one day which is a common problem with the model I have that I should’ve known about before I bought my phone. Anyways smartphones just aren’t reliable anymore. All I need is something with sms and calling. I’d like something with Snapchat and Discord, but that’s why I have a computer and iPad.
in your goal to escape the smartphones and the waste of time on social media, you bought this phone just to tell us it has a WhatsApp, youtube, facebook on it. Good job bro
The RUclips/Facebook experience sucks so much on this that it's like it doesn't exist. And I don't consider WhatsApp as a bad thing, as it's for communication, and that's what a phone's supposed to do, right?
My smartphone really started to annoy me, using it too much, wasting my time.
Now I too wil get a dumb/featurephone (I too rely on whatsapp) and use any other apps on my pc or my tablet.
Got the Samsung galaxy tab A8 for a cheap price, it's good enough to run any apps I need, and large enough that I wont use it much.
Smartphones aren't phones, they're PDA's you can also call with.
That's nice! If I were someone that carries a bag around, I would also do that.
Funnily enough, that's how the first couple of smartphones pre-iPhone were. Just PDAs that happened to take calls. Some Nokia "smartphone" was literally a PDA that clipped on to a normal cell phone.
i have a flipphone that i use for 2 weeks of the month and then i use my samsung phone for the other 2 weeks of the month so im not fully disconnected from my social media
Just make sure u don't be a victim of overstimulation.
I'm thinking of buying this exact phone, could you please make a review with the all the functions.?
maybe
hello, i need to ask one question about this phone, what material is keyboard made from? i mean, is it soft-touch plastic or kinda rubber-ish plastic? this is very important for me.
Here is what i think about switching to flip phone: its a great idea but world just expects you tu have smartphone. all that like scanning qr code in the restaraunt or else feels kinda wrong, people should think about phone as an optional choice, not essential thing everyone should have
Keyboard is a hard plastic, has a tactile button click.
This phone has a QR scanner but I wouldn't want to browse a menu with that phone. I am finding that some restaurants are going back to physical menus, but that depends on your area.
if kai os supports video call, can view and download more than 8mb files and support mobile banking apps. I surely buy one as my main phone.
There are Android flip phones that don't have such limitations!
Buy the CAT s22
@@petermurage8685 this phone doesn't available in my country's market
Does Spotify work?
Nope, there is no Spotify app.
You have to use mp3 files
Can it play music?
And can it connect to bleutooth or does it have like a little hole for headphones etc?...
yes it can play music, has bluetooth and a headphone jack.
to add music to it:
ruclips.net/video/Xpnih_WGM_E/видео.htmlsi=l4cDfMiQPYHc8k9o&t=538
start at 8:58
does the phone have maps? or something simmilar
Yes, it comes with Google Maps but no turn-by-turn navigation
I have one, I bought it more than a month ago today 1/21/2024 a Blue Tank Flip, to avoid social networks
Did you root the phone in order for it to look the way it does? (no annoying google assistant and google on the left side of the screen). Like 6 months ago I bought an Energizer kaios candybar phone and it was a total let down. The software was fine but the hardware was so bad (call audio coming out from THE SPEAKER and the keypad was so hard to press). Is the flip factor better? Is the keypad comfortable and snappy? Does the sound during calls come from the right "output" exit?
Nope, I left it all stock as I found no way to root it.
Mine seems to be the opposite from yours. For me, hardware was pretty nice and software was meh
Nice review. I noticed Google Maps icon on the screen. Does it actually work (gps)? I would like to give the phone to my parents and send myself a permanent gps pin on Google Maps. Would that be possible? That would be a great solution for seniors.
Yes it works but it has no live turn-by-turn navigation. It'll tell you what directions you have to take but you have to flip through them manually
@@ArnauDisrepair thanks. But can you share your location with others?
I don't think so. You might be able to send your location but not a constant live location
I want this so bad
bro how did u add songs to the playlists? i tried finding tutorial on it but just showed the reviews....pls help
Plug the phone to a computer or use an SD Card, and drag mp3 files to the Music folder. Then, once you open the Music app, they should be there.
thx!
hola!! quería preguntarte sobre algunas desventajas que hayas experimentado con el energizer. que tal la batería?
¡Hola! La batería dura más de un día entero con uso medio. Si lo usas poquito, te puede durar hasta la mañana del tercer día. Suficiente para irte un fin de semana y no necesitar un cargador.
edit: veo que tú también eres fan de james scholz ;)
@@ArnauDisrepair Así es, en gran parte por eso estoy adentrandome en el mundo de los feature phones y el study with me.
@@m1guelalonso Yo igual, y hasta me interesan los ThinkPads modeados por que los veo en sus videos.
@@ArnauDisrepair Te has ganado un sub, sigue así!
Is it’s supporting micro sim?
it supports nano sim
Meanwhile I made a mediocre graphing program for my sph-m330.
nice!
@@ArnauDisrepair Yep. I'm a power user. Even penetration test tge feature phones in my collection and have even found some entry points! Qualcomm BREW isn't exactly... securely designed...
Imagine jailbreaking, but on the LG Voyager.
My main phone is an iPhone 10 though.
@@ArnauDisrepair Oh, and because I'm in _The Zone(TM):_
"Legacy Portable Computing Wiki" is a nice resource on those old 2G/3G feature phones. I've even helped add info to there and co created the SPH-M330 and LG Voyager pages. (But most of the credit goes to users like "Dumbphonepreservation" that have taken my awful rambling walls of text into nice readable, well formatted, pages!)
Programs like "Bitpim" and "QCSuper" are really useful for pulling the files off these old devices.
Hopefully someday me, or someone, will finally create a softmod that can bypass Qualcomm BREW's DRM and allow unsigned code execution.
Also, wish the 2G and 3G CDMA networks still existed! These older phones are SO MUCH BETTER then these modern "dumb phones" and it would be HILARIOUS to flip an old Motorola W376g out in public and see people's reactions!
Whatsapp still running on this device?
it works
Only 30 minutes to type a text message? Where do I get one? 😂😂😂😂
You actually get better at it, but yeah, typing is slower than on a touch screen. Voice messages are still there though.
To bad that USA only has Flip phones that i like. And they don't work in EU.
KaiOS really sucks. It needs a clean Android OS.
And most dumb Flip phones don't have 5G. It's a battery consumption problem.
Nokia still doesn't want to make a durable rugged budget android flip phones.
I need android because i want to use WhatsApp and Stocard.
There are Android flip phones around! Some are even rugged!
Are you in a shed?
no, that's my office lmao
It's all wood so it looks like a shed
Ditch the nail varnish. Good advices
Wtf is wrong with your nails mate.😂😂😂
painted
bro licker
I don't know why you do this, like... If you don't want to be distracted by social media just delete the social media apps. You're downgrading to something so bad for a problem that doesn't even exist.
I've done that! But instead of using the app, I would use the website. The whole point is to downgrade to something where there is no way I would be able to use social media.
@@ArnauDisrepair But downgrading to something that bad is not worth it. Just think a bit before opening the website, or add a family lock to yourself. So you can avoid entering social media and websites. I could not use that even if they paid me, not because I couldn't use social media, more that the experience is so bad I would rather have nothing.
Yes, I've also done that. I've done every trick in the book to prevent me from using social media. It works for a week or so, but I always end up using it anyway. I've been trying to do this since January. My decision to use a flip phone is because it's the only thing that is truly working. With it, as you've said, trying to use social media is so bad that it's better to not try. I can still take phone calls, and I can still do text messaging (I'm now used to using the phone keypad, and I'm good enough to have a conversation) but social media is so painful that I can't use it, and that's what I intended to happen.
@@ArnauDisrepair I am not saying that the social media experience is bad, I'm talking about your flip phone's user experience. I am fine with social media. I check it from time to time to keep in touch with friends or if I'm bored... And, as I said, you can just put a parental control to yourself, and put a password only your friend knows, or a sibling knows, so you can't remove it. I don't understand how you could remove that.
Well, I don't have the same experience you have with social media. Honestly, I don't give a damn about what my friends post on Instagram and if I do, I'd rather ask them in person. Twitter makes me miserable, and RUclips wastes too much of my time. If I'm bored, I'd rather have to call a friend or play some video game. I do use RUclips at night usually, but I'm only signed in on my tablet, so I can only use it when I'm home.
And about the password thing, I'm often the only person at home. I don't have siblings and my parents are at work for most of the day. Not having access to the password would cause me to find some web browser that doesn't work with the parental controls (probably Firefox in iOS?) and just use that.
Great decision!!
I've been thinking about buying something like this as well because it can run most of the apps i use like youtube, messenger and wattpad, it is also more comfortable to use as it doesn't strain your hand because of its size and more comfortable to use the keypad ..
Been planning to switch this year 🫶 but still looking what phone i should choose. Thank you
This website josebriones.org/dumbphone-finder may be of help. There are some Android dumbphones that can run your typical apps. I'm looking at the Xiaomi Qin F21 Pro, but they are Chinese so you have to find a cracked one to get the Play Store and sideloading support.
@@ArnauDisrepair Thanks . I already have 2 phones i'm thinking to buy but i'm still looking for some reviews or unboxing of it; to see if it's worth to buy or not .