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Reviews For Nokia Flip
Great Way to Simplify Your Life
Popped the Sim Card from my Samsung Galaxy into this Nokia 2780 and it worked fine. Has a tiny bit of internet (weather, maps and Google) just in case I need to find a location, but that’s it. Great little phone, will really help you achieve some Mindfulness.
Love it!
PERFECT FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME!!! ALL i wanted was a phone for calling, light texting, EASY AND I MEAN EASY to use i set up mu contact list , by myself did easily and alone . I am old 76 and not very cell phone savvy… call clarity is awesome, i can not stress enough…EASY TO USE!1 THE ONLY THING THAT CONFUSED ME WAS WHEN I SHUT IT OFF HAD I HAD HECK OF A TIME FIGURING HOW TO TURN IT BACK ON but the on switch is the hang up key IS THE POWER BUTTON Who knew!1 i know now!
Works well with Tello and supports voice over WiFi.
I like this phone! Good econometrics and buttons feel right, size just right for my large hands but still petite, reasonable build quality should last years, menus are rational, good sensitivity it connects to the network even though the coverage is poor. Supports voice over WiFi which fills in when the regular coverage is bad this works well. Battery life is good I have to charge every two days depending on use. Also seems to be dependent on how good the coverage is. suspect this has to do with how much power the phones transmitter expends to keep contact. This is just a guess I run my phone in WiFi mode when at home the router is very near the phone this appears to extend usage time. I use very little data or apps so can’t say much about this other than my bet is on at least good performance.
Great flip phone option for trouble teens who need to get off social media
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.
Good for a flip phone
After trying to find a modern day flip phone, I’d say this is about as close to the old style phones as I’ve been able to get. I’m talking about quality wise. The old ones I had were built like tanks but it seems like none of the companies want to sink that effort into the new ones. I guess this one is close.
It runs on KaiOS so you do get a few more app type options which I really didn’t care about. If I still wanted apps, I would’ve stuck with my smart phone. Apps on this thing are just mobile Firefox web pages and they’re flaky, don’t work well with scrolling or clicking so don’t expect much.
Even email isn’t going to impress anybody on KaiOS. You might as well only set up one account cause that’s all you can use at one time anyway. If you want notifications from a different email account, you have to physically switch over to that account. Luckily, again, I wasn’t looking for email features.
Texting is the painful T-9 again which, due to the addition of all phones using the number 1 for voicemail, throws all the letters off by one, so any old muscle memory training you had from years ago is going to get screwed up. You have to retrain yourself on T-9 again. Fortunately, this phone has nice big keys so it has been easier than a couple of other flip phones I’ve tried. BUT, the biggest bonus with this phone as for texting has to be the voice input, which is actually fairly decent. I was impressed with how accurate and easy, easier than using the T-9 input, to enter quick texts. I’d recommend trying and using that feature as it will save you lots of grief trying to type.
Ultimately, it's still a quality thing for me and this phone doesn't quite meet the same standards as my old flip phones. It's noticeably very plastic and also quite slippery in the hand. I'd strongly recommend getting the textured form fitting case at the same time or chances are good the thing is going to slide out of your hand.
The battery length is probably it's best feature as it lasts a good 2-3 days depending on use. I never have to worry about charging it in the car as I can throw it on the charger at home for an hour or two and it's full again and ready for another couple of days.
The blue color I ordered does not look like the pictures at all. It's more of a turquoise blue-green which I can't stand. I would've ordered the red had I known but I don't know if that would've looked like the pics or been more orange-red so unless you can physically see one, it's a gamble. Thankfully I ordered the textured case in black so it pretty much covers all of the ugly color of the phone anyway.
I had been using the Nokia 8810 banana phone prior to this one and thankfully, the 2760 has far more processing power so you can actually do stuff without totally bogging the thing down like I found on the 8810.
There is some bugs with the use of an sd card as well. I got mine all ready from my computer, and while the phone can see it and browse the files, it can't find any music files so I also can't change any ring tones. People on forums have said they have had some luck formatting the card on the phone itself but still run into problems when they try to hook the card back up to their PC to add music, etc. as the computer wants to reformat it again so it's a viscous circle. I didn't care enough about ring tones and music to bother fighting with this so I just left it as is for now.
Overall, if you are looking for a modern flip phone that is somewhat close to old school quality and don't care about apps or anything other than having something for making calls and short texts, this is about the best I've found for a reasonable price. If Nokia, or some company, would offer a updated version of almost any old flip phone as far as build quality, I really think they would have a good size market of users who are wanting to get rid of a lot of their tech and go old school like me.