I'm currently using their Jelly 2, which is a smartphone that's just exactly tiny enough to do all the things I need and no more. The screen is 3", and the tiny form factor is still enough for what I want to use my phone for: messaging, calls, all my music apps, all my podcast/audiobook apps, maps/transit schedules, checking email. What the tiny screen is NOT enough for is content consumption - and that's the point. Such a simple idea, but it's worked wonders for my phone addiction. I just do all that on an actual computer now, where it's much more manageable and not constantly in my pocket.
Anyways, the 22,000 mAh phone looks like a miss to me, but I really respect that they're trying to do something different.
Massive battery, massive flashlight, rugged and waterproof. I work behind a keyboard now, but there was a time in my life where this would have been the perfect work phone.
I was concerned by the battery at first, but turns out it's more than enough to last a day or two since I'm no longer constantly pulling up twitter at every free moment.
This is an "82Wh Phone", assuming they're using a standard lithium ion battery in a normal configuration, which is a lot of assumption.
Watt hour is an actual unit of energy.
22 thousand thousandths of an amp hour is a ridiculous use of units, and it doesn't actually tell you how much energy the battery holds.
I don't know if this is going to frustrate you more, but I recently needed a small battery so I picked up this unit[0] at walmart, where it came rated in mAh for both 3.7v and 5v. The battery itself also has WH marked on it. A step in... a direction I guess
[0]https://www.walmart.com/ip/onn-Portable-Battery-4k-mAh-Black...
I had the original jelly (non-pro) and they didn't even provide the Android 8 Oreo update they promised in the Kickstarter. Only the pro version got that but it was promised for both.
Also security updates were few and far between. Only buy this if you don't care about updates at all.
With their later models there have been a lot of quality concerns, like the rugged Atom losing rubber parts and getting water in the camera despite being sold as waterproof. I didn't get that one but I followed the Kickstarter comments waiting to buy it in case it turned out really good.
What confuses me is the effort pretending to be rugged seems nearly as high as the effort of actually being rugged would have been. Maybe it's cargo-cult design, like with bad aero?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14045/energizer-power-max-p18...
I wonder why Duracell hasn't come with a phone yet.
It's 2.5x the weight of the Google pixel 6.
As far as hardware goes, looks great, aside from the lack of microSD. If they really need space I'd rather they ditch 3.5mm and FM radio.
Also, this doesn't have UWB or a stylus.
The FM radio is entirely baked-in to the MediaTek MT6789 SoC, and uses anything connected to the 3.5mm jack as the antenna for better reception. Assuming this thing is intended for use at jobsites, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that having a functional FM radio and 3.5mm jack would be desired.
Still, a jobsite seems like a bad place for a 3.5mm. Any jobsite radio will likely either have FM built in, or Bluetooth, and and aux cord is just one more thing to get grime on it and clog your connector.
Actually using it for headphones seems like an unnecessary safety hazard that Bluetooth would fix.
Software updates have nothing to do with big names. They are too expensive for the phone maker, being it Google or Samsung or Xiaomi.
