It’s great. I keep it in my fanny pack.

Edit: it’s a uniherz jelly star (green)

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    I fuckin LOVE the Jelly Star! I use it as my music player. Expandable memory, headphone jack, runs BlackPlayer and Podcast Addict. Don’t need it to do anything else in the world. Wonderful device.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 days ago

      are the jelly phones good again? I owned a unihertz jelly as my main phone for years but I had to replace it twice from it bricking, and when I bought new ones they almost didn’t let me buy it, I had to check all these boxes that I understood their phones are not typical, etc. - seems like quality had suffered immensely, especially around the pandemic … so maybe the quality is improving?

  • chefdano3@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Don’t be fooled, that’s actually a galaxy s25 ultra. It’s just that this guy has massive hands.

  • smh@slrpnk.net
    12·
    3 days ago

    I love mine. It fits comfortably in my bra, unlike my previous phone. Some games are too small, especially text-heavy ones that don’t scale the text. That’s ok. I shouldn’t play so many phone games anyway.

    Favorite comment from a coworker: [exasperated] “Could you find a smaller phone‽”

  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
    27·
    3 days ago

    I’ve had mine since they shipped out the Kickstarter orders (two years). Thing is an amazing piece of engineering. Even has unusual extras like call recording, IR blaster, headphone jack, & an FM radio. About the only thing missing is 5G radio support (unless you care about wireless charging, but it charges so fast that it’s no big deal), although I wish the battery were user-replaceable. At least the AccuBattery app estimates I got one with a capacity roughly 20% over spec.

    The next model they came out with would have been the one I’d have waited to get had I known they were working on it, though. The Tank Mini has basically the same specs, but also with a more usable 4.3" screen size, a second programmable function button, roughly 2.75x the battery capacity, a powerful flashlight/emergency warning light (used to also have a laser rangefinder, but they seem to have eliminated that). The battery longevity & extra programmable button would have been good to have.

    ETA:
    AccuBattery has helped me keep the battery in decent shape even after two years. Basically, the lithium-ion batteries prevalent in phones today will last several more years if you keep them charged in the middle third range (33-66%) as much as possible - doesn’t have to be every time, but the more you do it the more it helps. I’m typing this on my OnePlus 7 Pro that I bought used five years ago - it arrived with 89% of stock capacity, and just dropped below 80% a few months ago because I’ve been doing this. This model is over six years old, and still has decent life left in it (and I virtually never use the selfie cam, but its pop-up one is extremely cool & doesn’t eat a hole in my screen).

    But the Jelly Star does fit perfectly in the palm of my hand - even with my slightly smaller than average sized hands. It’s fantastic for subtle usage and easy to pocket. The feature list for something so small is unreal even two years later.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
        7·
        3 days ago

        I’m more of a function over form type, so I keep a case on it & don’t even use the glyph lights on the back. Just more proof that it’s great for a variety of use cases.

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      3·
      3 days ago

      The tank looks like what I wanted last time I bought a phone. Only seems to be missing eSIM, but that’s not a deal breaker.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        I look at eSIMs much like i do physical copies of games: all electronic is more convenient, sure - but I don’t trust the carriers not to make freely transferring them between devices more difficult again once they have the vast majority of users dependent upon them. I’d rather have a physical SIM I can move freely between devices without allowing them the possibility of blocking it via software control.

  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    If unihertz supported a viable AOSP alternative they would be the perfect smartphones - the hardware seems fantastic. In fact, if they ever do open up to something like Graphene I might just buy one from each of their lines.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      51·
      3 days ago

      They’re rootable (flashable) from what I’ve read, would just take someone wanting to compile Lineage for it.

      At least since it’s bootloader unlockable, you can root it and disable what you want, though as I understand they ship with a pretty vanilla OS.

      Yea, not the same as Lineage, but far better than most.

  • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
    13·
    3 days ago

    Took me a second for my brain to adjust from thinking you have some seriously large mitts

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    11·
    3 days ago

    I know a few dullards who’d go for the good old small smartphones of the 2010s, but this is even smaller! Does it run a standard smartphone OS, maybe Android compatible? How is usability with large fingers?

    • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      It runs full android. In fact, it’s way more powerful than a phone this size has any business being. You can even play (some) games on it with no performance drops at all.

      Usability with large fingers is slightly less than normal, but honestly not bad at all. I use a T9 keyboard (pictured below) and it’s great and I type relatively quickly. I have the option of quickly switching to qwerty but T9 does the job well and it’s fun. screenshot

      Edit: I did turn up the system font size, which makes things a bit tight sometimes, but honestly it’s very usable without doing that as well.

      • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        T9 keyboard

        Do you have to tap multiple times for each letter?

        Similar layout, but flick your finger in an orthogonal direction instead of tapping multiple times: https://f-droid.org/packages/es.ideotec.t16fling/ . I have been using it as my main keyboard the past year and it’s OK. No haptic buzzes though and it’s incompatible with one app (Aurora store, causes random crashes, have to temporary swap keyboards).

        • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Nope, T9 is where you tap once on each number and it predicts what word you meant. There are only a few common overlapping words so it’s very quick. I actually did try several flick-based keyboards but the phone is so small, flick accuracy is almost worse than tap accuracy when only using 9 main letter buttons for me. It would often confuse vertical/horizontal flicks for diagonal flicks and it was a messy experience.

          The keyboard I’m using is called “tappy keyboard”. I tried several open source ones, but none of them were able to fit the bill for this small screen quite as much as Tappy. It has many other layouts as well, but is not flick-based. (It does have swipe for some layouts)