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Comment by jpalomaki | Hacker News Reader

Looks like the new HMD-Nokia "banana" is powered by KaiOS [1].

[1] https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-8110-4g

The KaiOS page also says they launched phones in 2017 with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. It looks like this is T-Mo's: https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/alcatel-go-flip

Out of topic, what's the purpose of physical numpad in a modern phone? Inputting text with T9? Pure nostalgy? Fill the void because bigger screen would be too expensive?

I find it hard to believe that manual entering of phone numbers is common use case. Nowadays people mainly communicate by texting/chatting via social networks, right?

Some people just like it more, if they have haptic feedback. It's "The Feel". You can do this without watching the screen, for example. Not everyone wants a PC in their pocket. Some just need a phone, that does connect them to more than just another phone and let's them shoot photos, I guess.

The speed I could type text messages with T9 is something I will never achieve with my iphone.

I am however guessing that a smaller screen will lead to longer battery life and the phone seems to aim itself at markets where that matters more than in the west.

Ugh...school wheel hijacking in the middle of the page ... still not has bad as the KaiOS page.

The horrors of modern webdesign... Looks over usability...

Is it scroll wheel hijacking when the scroll itself works as intended (as configured by the user) but some part of the content "locks" to the viewport? I'd say it doesn't touch the wheel at all.

Also, that page gave me dizziness. Why that background colors? Jesus!

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