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Review on πŸ“± Tracfone Carrier-Locked Alcatel MyFlip 4G Prepaid Flip Phone- Black - 4GB - Sim Card Included – CDMA (Renewed): Secure and Affordable Communication Device for On-the-Go by Brandon Hayes

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not bad, disappointing KaiOS performance

Finally a simple phone with Wi-Fi. KaiOS should also be an improvement over all the cheap phones and the 1GHz processor sounds amazing. Unfortunately the web browser is terrible and I'm not sure why it doesn't work better. First off, even though it has a "search" label, when you open it it just takes you to the URL bar and still assumes you just want to type the URL. You can't enter spaces or switch to predictive text, so either enter a URL or search for a single word. This really shouldn't be a problem if you have two ways of accessing the URL string. Selecting the Search button takes you into a mode that expects you to enter search terms. Second, it's damn slow. When the page loads (which is very slow), it is slow to respond to commands. One thing you'll want to do with this limited phone is tell the browser to stop loading the page once the text and images are there and the bloated website is still chugging, but the browser takes its time to open the options menu and react. to the stop command. I don't know what it does with that big processor and storage, but it behaves like any other cheap phone. The navigation is weird too. It has a cursor by default so you can click links. In cursor mode, you can scroll down the page, but it's very slow. Switching to scroll mode is faster, but I have to wonder why it doesn't scroll as fast in cursor mode so I don't have to switch back and forth. There's no option to disable scripts or images, which was very useful on older phones. Wallpaper doesn't work well. Your background image is shown on the outer display and the outer text doesn't have outlines or shadows like the inner display of the watch, so you really need a black background image. It has its own app store, but for now it doesn't have anything useful. This is the same phone that the original version of Opera Mini was designed for, but this phone does not work with J2ME applications and there is no version of Opera (or any other proxy browser) in the KaiOS App Store. There is a Twitter page in the App Store, but it looks like it only opens the mobile Twitter page in the browser. This is not a real device optimized app. I clicked on the video and the cursor disappeared and didn't come back even after exiting and reopening the app. I had to open and close the account menu and finally it came back. Scrolling through your Twitter feed is annoying as it keeps getting stuck, and if it gets stuck while the cursor is over a username, their profile will appear and take up most of the screen and it's a pain to go back and hoping it goes away. .About this video. it actually played in the browser, which begs the question of why the phone can stream and play videos but has trouble opening the browser's native menu and scrolling through multiple lines of text. This thing is very cheap and it has Wi-Fi. , so it's still a good option for a basic phone. The keyboard is large and easy to press, and the navigation bar is particularly easy to press compared to the LG panel phone I've had before. But the browser is so slow and abysmal that I wouldn't want to use it for almost anything other than maybe quickly looking up a phone number or confirming some other basic info, and at that level I wouldn't really care about using a few kilobytes." Data” instead of free WiFi.

Pros
  • Seems to be everything for now
Cons
  • Periodicity