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Unihertz have some interesting form factors. https://www.unihertz.com/

My phone is a Unihertz Atom L, I've had it for a few months now.

It's a good phone. Not the lightest, but the screen is a comfortable size and it has the most important feature of a phone for me - a headphone jack.

The Jelly was my son's first smartphone, much to his chagrin (imagine being a 15 year old pulling that thing out when your friends had iPhone Xs or whatever massive Samsung phones were on the market at the time). I've been using an old iPhone SE because I love that form factor. The Unihertz Titan is very tempting, though, particularly given the hardware keyboard.

i wish apple would have just left the original SE alone, or made it like 'the classic' model

if they let the outside design stay the same but just bumping the internals (and weatherproofing, water killed my original SE), i would literally buy that every year just to support that kind of business

Very nice. They even have phones with a keyboard. I assumed only BlackBerry had this.

They're not the best keyboard-phones, though: for that, you probably need to look at Planet Computers' Cosmo Communicator, and the forthcoming-end-of-the-year Astro Slide: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...

Depends on what you are looking for. Sliders are nice in that they have larger keyboards and screens but the downside is that you have to slide out the keyboard in order to use it. Candybar keyboards are always on hand. If you prefer the candybar form factor then the Unihertz Titan and Titan Pocket are currently the best options.

And android 11! Feels like a winner to me. Crazy that it's $300 (assuming we're both talking about the Titan Pocket). Feels like a potential winner to me.

The Titan Pocket is pretty great, just make sure you understand how small the screen is compared to what you may be used to. It works well enough for many use cases but it's basically unusable for most modern games. Which can be a worthwhile trade-off depending on what you are looking for.

I might just pull the trigger and get a titan pocket.

I've had a Jelly 2 for 6 months. Loving it!

I used the first gen jelly pro for about a year and a half; it was a pretty decent phone with terrible battery life.

It worked fine and did everything I needed it to do, other than stay powered all day.

How's the second gen battery wise?

Also did they put android 11/12 on it, and have they released the stuff necessary to have lineage support them?

When my pixel 4a breaks, I'd be tempted to switch back to a reasonably sized phone.

I charge the battery every third day. Granted I don't spend a lot of time using it, and I keep the battery saver mode on.

LineageOS works fine for me. I think I'm on Android 10, but maybe 11.

Me as well. Never even heard of it until someone mentioned it to me in an HN comment

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