Ok I have been using this phone for a long time now so decided I will update how it is (and also because I didn’t really try it that long when I wrote about it the first time)
Its a nice phone, its big, but its for a good reason, the screen is very very good, its really clear and bright, and I only used it at about 40% brightness, has a lot of built in storage (20GB usable) and a lot of RAM (4GB), it does have a good few problems though
Pro’s
- The battery, it lasts very long. Charging is even better, it took less then a hour to charge from 10% to 85%, I’m not joking you can try this yourself, after it reaches near 90%, it charges much slower, probably to protect the battery life
- I PAID for in flight Wi-Fi using this phone, and I was able to call and text normally, and not just that, I was even able to use hotspot to share my Wi-Fi with other peoples phones, and they were all able to call and text normally too as if they had service
, and the battery didn’t really drop much faster, or even get hot - If were talking about airplanes, I will also say the Sonim XP3plus 5G works great in europe, 90% of the time I had 5G service (and the other 10% was the carriers fault, so this will only improve)
- Apps like Waze, Jtech, Weather, and other messaging apps work excellent
- You have 2 extra shortcut buttons
- The two buttons on the outer screen is very useful, you can turn on the flashlight with it, see your call history and call back, see new text messages and silent the volume, all without opening the phone
- Comes with a built in Visual Voicemail. You can hear voicemails, save them and put them on your USB/Hard Drive, you can even set if you want your calls to forward to a number if your unreachable or didn’t pick up (This really depends on your carrier, I think only T-Mobile is this nice)
- Messaging: Groups work, it looks nice, you are able to see if someone read your MMS (although I never seen it say “read” even though the person did read it)
- The camera on this phone wins the best flip phone camera I’ve seen, a single picture can be 3MB
- It has a headphone/aux slot
- The quick settings on the main screen is very useful
There’s obviously more but that’s all I’m gonna say
Service Stuff:
- Phone calls sound great thanks to the 5G and good speaker, text messages send fast, I don’t think I have lost service with this phone, I even kept on getting service over 15,000 feet above the ground and was able to send text messages
. I tested everything airplane related with this phone, it passes everything, It might even survive if you threw it off the plane, but please don’t try to even test that - I tested it with T-Mobile and US Mobile dark star and it worked, with verizon and its mvnos, it did not…
- It has eSIM, I never tested it but its a great option to have
- Its 5G NR Standalone, you can tell your einiklech that you still use the same phone before WW3… in other words this phone will work in the united states for another 20+ years at least
Bad Stuff:
- I don’t like that the volume buttons don’t control the ringtone volume, I found a way to fix it, but its not near perfect though, and there’s some sound software glitches that I hope get fixed
- There are some apps that are pretty sad that don’t work, like google maps, and the mouse works, but it has a lot of glitches that make me just not want to use one at all
- Not a big issue but Wi-Fi calling goes on and off for no reason, atleast for me
- No mute button in the messaging app
- And like everyone who used this phone knows that the keyboard works terribly, double clicks happen often, and the buttons just don’t respond, especially when used fast. The T9 app just makes it worse, at least this time they added to be able have a personal dictionary unlike the other kika keyboard versions
This is a excellent flip phone, but the 2 main things I hate about this phone is the unresponsive keyboard and it doesn’t work with all carriers, but this phone still is in my opinion one of the best flip phones out there
Thank you for your attention to this matter