Phones, please make them StoP
I dumped Android. I don't have an iPhone either... it's all cool.
Got one of those KaiOS phones that were forked from FirefoxOS. The Nokia 8110
4G. I really like it because it does what it's supposed to. First thing I did
back in September is hack it to get rid of google apps and other cruft that's
OEM.
The good:
- Battery life is EXCELLENT! Best you can get in a current phone
- 4G means it's compatible for a long time
- It can even browse mobile YouTube if you wanted to, without hiccups
- It's slick looking and makes heads turn. Got positive comments.
The bad:
- KaiOS should be snappier. Why does navigating the menus feel laggy
but I can play back a YouTube video at a good framerate?
- Plastic feels dirt-cheap (however, it was 30 bucks). Their website for some
reason lists them at 80 now. Go figure.
- The battery is a pain in the ass to take out on mine, almost peeling off
the exterior glued on sleeve thing. You have to in order to insert a micro-SIM
and swap SD cards.
Now, something that sucks universally is I'm forced now to use this PhotoTAN
app in order to do Online Banking. Guess what, an app for KaiOS like that does
not exist, obviously. So I'm still having to deal with an Android phone I don't
want to even use at home just to handle my own damn money.
There's these devices they charge you 35 EUR for that'll do the same thing,
I just wonder why they can't make it a mobile web-page I can access that stores
a cookie or something. All it does is use the camera to scan an image of a QR
code esque symbol, talk back to their server that my device (that's verified)
has just scanned a confirmation code. Shouldn't be too hard, right?...
-- Marco