Nokia8000 4G 2.8 Inch UK SIM Free Feature Phone with WhatsApp and Google Assistant (Single SIM) - White

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I give it one star for the fact that you don't have to create a KaiOS account to use the phone, so even though it is a Linux operating system like any other smartphone (it is after all a smartphone with buttons), you don't have to identify yourself to the company that wrote the software you will be using as you do with many Android and IOS phones. And it seems to be one of the few button phones with 4G. Battery life is what you'd expect with button phones (4-5 days in my case), until you turn on wireless/data and it goes down to the worst kind of smartphone (<12 hours?). But really, I only gave it one star simply because you can't select 0 stars.Let me list briefly what I don't like about this phone:Slowness. It's like running Windows 10 on a machine built in 1995. Definately needs a RAM upgrade. The side effects of this include:--Opening the menu takes 3-4 seconds. 2-3 more seconds to open an app, e.g. your text messages.--Updating the photo gallery (ie from the time you take a picture to the time it appears in the gallery) takes anywhere from 5-8 minutes. I usually just give up.--Opening an app where you have to switch on wireless. First it takes 4-5 seconds to get the wireless going, then 4-5 more seconds while the app decides to open. I know seconds sounds like such a small amount of time, but go ahead, you try it.--Delay between when you press a button (e.g. typing or backspacing or selecting a menu option) to when it appears on screen. Result is you often inadvertently type a letter twice because of your stupid human impatience and then backspace over three or four letters when you correct it. Or you open an app and it doesn't open, so you click again and it suddenty catches up and starts doing things in the app that you didn't mean to activate. OMG.In the file browser view of the photos, videos, etc., you can't skip from one file to the next, you have to exit the file, go to the next file, open, view, etc. Since the gallery (where you skip seamlessly from one picture to the next, think 'swipe') is so damn slow to update, you have to use the file browser instead, and you can't swipe/skip from one picture to the next. FML.Button sensitivity is all wrong. Sometimes a single keystroke registers as 3 keystrokes, or you have to press for your life to get it to register. Try typing a message. I end up typing the same word two or three times to get it right. Maybe this is part of the 'slowness' issue (see above). Help me.Predictive text. It's a setting in 'settings', and yes, I set it, but every. single. time. you open an SMS or Whatsapp to start writing, you have to click three times to turn predictive on. The 'settings' setting is just to make the predictive feature available to apps-- it doesn't turn it on by default. Why would a programmer decide this is a good thing?Predictive text. You have the option to teach it how to spell new exotic words, (like 'I'd', contraction of 'I' and 'would' -- it doesn't know how to handle this), but you can't add punctuation in 'spell mode'. No new abbreviations like 'w.t.f.', foreign words like 'espèce de m€rde cancéreuse', etc. So it takes 10 keystrokes to properly type the word 'I'd' when it doesn't start a sentence. I'm not joking.Predictive text. For some reason it doesn't know that you should always capitalise the first person pronoun 'I'. I have to turn off predictive, switch to 'ABC' and type my capital 'I' any time it appears in the middle of sentence. I know this is a unique feature to the English language, and maybe I'm overly fastidious, but my 2G phone had no problem with this and it cost 1/3rd the price. Good luck.Combine these things, the button sensitivity, the slowness, the bad predictive text, it's just impossible to use. Save your money.

Good phone, hotspot excellent, very hardy and a nice feel to it. Lots of shortcuts which is handy.

the Nokia 8000 is a very nice sleek phone for a great price.It has some cool features and loads of apps in the KAIOS app store including WhatsApp and YouTube etc.however the phone is quite slow and takes time to load between apps, it does not have a powerful enough CPU or ram diskoverall I would recommend for light basic use, but definitely not for any heavy use

I bought this as I like feature phones due to their longer battery life, and because you don't feel as sad if you drop it.The 4g features work quite well.You have YouTube ,WiFi hotspot and you can save data by using Wifi. You can easily set up a Gmail account on the phone. Most workplaces have office 365 accounts, but this has a less straightforward set up.To get that feature phone battery life that you expect. You need to switch off the data connection in the settings, you can turn it back on when you want to check emails,etc. This should then give you about 3 days between charges.All in all this is a decent phone, though it would help a lot of they added a 5MP camera in place of the one they put in.

I wanted to give up my iPhone and use this. Has great features to make the transition easier but the keyboard is really terrible. Phones from the early 0000s had better keyboards than this modern brick phone.I would find another option because it would take 10 min per text message.

Phone buttons r too close to eachother really hard to press the right one and battery stand by time isn't that great to

This phone is really not a good layout for texts and I did not like the phone so returned it.