Punkt. MP02 4G Dumb Phone - Unlocked Minimalist Mobile Phone with Keypad, Wi-Fi Hotspot & Private Encrypted Messaging | Focus & Digital Wellbeing - Black

Battery life will be what you make of it. If you have mobile data & bluetooth disabled it will be pretty decent. If you use signal/pigeon and have 4g enabled it lasts around 3/4 of the day for me which is okay for my use case as I have it plugged in when I'm in the car or at work. Pigeon has a setting to set message fetching interval which I've noticed really improves battery life when set to 5 minutes or higher. Overall there was a bit of a learning curve going from having constant access to a smart phone but about a month in I hardly feel the difference. I love the feel and design of the phone. I would suggest ordering a screen protector with it or leaving the screen film it comes with. Like the headline says, I think its completely worth getting so long as you do your research. A lot of it can be negative (especially on places like reddit) which I knew going in and fortunately the only issues I've had are a less than ideal battery life (still perfectly manageable) and the pigeon app would crash which a recent software update has resolved completely.

The design of this is great but ultimately this phone fails at its intended goal. The Punkt does basically two things: Phone calls, and text messages. The phone call quality is fantastic. The calls are very clear and loud. The speaker also works great. As for text messages, this phone is a big loser. The T9 typing works just fine, but the lack of MMS makes this almost unusable. If you are in a text group, you will not receive most messages and the ones you do will be hard to sort out. I just stopped responding to any group messages. That and the inability to see pictures or GIFS sent is a bummer (although this does work on the signal app, pidgeon. As for the signal app, it's terrible. It's so bad, it's not worth using at all. It's separate from the text app and only works with other people who also have signal which I think is about 10 people worldwide. Also, when you install this app, it will break any other instance you have of signal, so no more signal on desktop or a tablet. Your choices will be: highly restricted lousy Signal or no Signal at all. I gave this thing 3 stars because I think the people who buy it know what they are getting into. Altogether though, it's not very good at the limited things it claims to do. If they improved the texting, it would be expensive but acceptable. Without the texting working well, it's basically a very expensive telephone. If you can swallow your pretensions and just buy a cheap feature phone, you will be much better served. Update: 8/2021 I decided to update the firmware on this phone and after the update, the phone was bricked. Black screen and would not turn on. I contacted Punkt support and they told me they would not issue a refund for their phone that bricked itself after 5 months because I bought it from amazon. They offered to send me a new phone sometime around December (4 months from now). Thankfully this isn't my only phone or I would be screwed. Nonetheless, I will have to go get another phone and definitely not a Punkt phone. All in all, this phone is garbage, even for what it claims to be. I don't expect it to be a smartphone but it is one of the worst dumbphones on the market and definitely the worst dumbphone for the price. Support is absolute garbage and is not willing to stand behind their product and fix major issues in a timely fashion. Like I said before, find another feature phone.

Pros: no internet, no browser, no apps, no tracking, no unnecessary notifications. I love it is not a distraction. This phone feels solid and comfortable in my hand. It doesn't feel like a heavy computer weighing down my gym shorts. I love the feel of pressing actual buttons. Love the USB-c charger. The extra botton press to unlock. Loved the loon alarm. Cons: Pigion or signal or whatever can only be used with other users; I cannot ask 40 other people im in group chats with to change over. No group chats for the regular phone messagin is very confusing. Have you ever come back to your phone and found 15 messages in a group chat? Well here they come through as individual messages and then I have to go back through all the individual messages and try to piece everything together. I did not like have to unlock my phone to see IF there was a notification. I often have my ringer off but take a quick sec here and there to glance at notifications, not efficient to have to unlock phone first. The menu is clunky. The think there are too many menu items and sub menu items. Navigation is not quick, but it would speed up much more if there were multi directional buttons instead of just up and down. The clunky slow menu and the lack of group messages will be the reason for my return. I love almost everything of this phone and I was willing to sacrifice on the clunky menu until the group messages started. These two items caused me to be on my phopne much much longer than i want to be

I like the concept. When it worked the call quality was awesome and the speaker phone was fantastic. So far I have tried it with Ting and Mint Mobile (winner!) but there is one major issue. AFTER YOU HAVE INSTALLED A SIM CARD NEVER RESTART THE PHONE! If you do the phone will just randomly cut off, actually not even randomly, more like every time the phone auto locks so basically all of the time! So here you have a phone in your pocket and you think its on and it isn't. Not a very reliable means of communication. I have left two complaints with Punkt and have yet to hear back from them. Also, the phone always switches silent mode on, so if you are listening for notifications forget about it. The company says they are working on it but the product never should have been released in the first place until all these bugs (and there are more) had been worked out. I'll increase my overall score when the bugs have been worked out but for now I cannot recommend this product to anyone. **Edit** After a shaky start and a few OS updates, this is not really a bad phone. The texting brings me back to the 1990's but I wasn't good at it then either. The battery life has substantially improved and I can report that it no longer just randomly shuts down because it feels like it. The tethering for the internet works great and on one occasion when I was on call for work and we were at a winery in the middle of nowhere, this little guy saved my butt. The WiFi at the vineyard was not secure so I could not use it to VPN into my office but the connection went through on the Punkt phone, even though it had a very poor signal. I have an 8GB data plan that I pay $240 a year for so the phone works out to be a bargain.

Been using it for a few months now. The reason I bought this phone is due to it having mobile hotspot while still being a dumb phone. I've been using my old smart phone at work so I can still listen to music and stuff and use the hotspot for that. So, when I go home, I leave my old phone there and just use this phone for everything else. A little bit of a complicated ordeal, but I've been loving it. The phone itself is a weel made product, and the call quality has voLTE so you can hear perfectly fine. the biggest drawl backs for me are the signal. If you are out in a mild bfn you probably have very little signal if any at all, but if you are near somewhere its perfectly fine. And my biggest miss is being able to take and send pictures, which is obviously a design of the phone in which it doesn't have a camera. You can receive pictures however the quality isn't the greatest, so unless it's an easy to see picture you're going to have a hard time making it out. other that those two issues I have been enjoying it, and another fact is it is the phone is a lot smaller than you think.

Purchased in June and broke three to four months later. The buttons stopped working all together. You would think by looking at this thing it would be a brick and last forever. I was wrong. Hard to set up. I had to call my carrier and set up the phone manually with a SIM card which is harder than it sounds. The positive about this phone which gives it two stars is the fact that I really wanted a minimalist and simplistic phone to get away from social media and distractions. This phone did exactly that. I have the Light Phone 3 on pre-order which I believe will be a better phone for four reasons: 1) It is marketed as a durable phone and looks to be made of more sturdy material than this punkt phone, 2) It holds music 3) it holds podcasts and 4) it has maps. All features this phone does not have. Keep looking, you're on the right path but this is not the right phone.

I love this phone. It's everything it should be...for the most part. However, there are a couple issues - one in particular that leaves the phone unusable. First, the software. Over all, it's decent. The texting, calling, and contacts work fine. Importing contacts was quick and easy. Never had an issue with calls. The smart keyboard works well while texting. There are a couple minor issues, such as the fact that when you scroll down on a text, it only displays on the top half of the screen. A bit odd, but not the end of the world. I don't really use the other apps, such as the calculator. The clock is fine, and the alarm works well. The calendar is a bit useless, as it only shows the day in a month view, with nothing else to do. The notes is just what you would expect on a T9. And this is what I expect from a dumbphone with smart features, so I see it as a plus. The mobile hotspot works fine. The reception is decent. The battery life is great, normally getting 4-5 days of use on a single charge. Now for the hardware. It runs fine, lasts a long time, and does its job. The problem is the build quality. The case is built of a solid plastic, which is strong yet light, and the rubber on the back is a nice touch. Sadly, the buttons are not built with the same sturdiness. After 2 months of use, the printing on a couple of the buttons is starting to wear off. And the star button no longer works... I got some dirt on it while working, and it got underneath the buttons. Most of them were fine, but the star button no longer works and I have to really press the 0 hard to get it to register. So while I love it, I cant use it anymore. Most of my communication is texting, and without the star button or 0, Icantwriteamessagewithspacesorpunctuation

Is it overpriced? Maybe, but so is an iPhone—come on, don’t act like it’s not. Other reviewers say this phone is all about design and not functionality, as if design were some worthless, frivolous thing. This phone is not meant for your elderly loved one who just needs a dumb phone—you can get one of those for a third of the price of the Punkt. They won’t care about the interface anyway. But for someone who wants to exit the matrix, the slick, minimalistic design is precisely what makes the Punkt usable long-term. It’s not annoying, it doesn’t pretend to be something it’s not; it is utterly uninteresting. I don’t care about battery life since I barely touch this phone unless I’m making an actual call. This phone is NOT a substitute for a smartphone. You can’t live in this day and age without a smartphone, but you don’t have to let it take over your life, your sleep, your attention span, your energy. I have peace now. It’s so nice to know I’m not carrying my entire digital footprint in my bag—the personal data, the anxiety, the overkill security measures I'd have to take if I lose the damn thing. It’s also incredibly lightweight. And if my family or friends have an emergency, they can (and will) make a call. I’m really happy with this product overall. It works for me. I don’t care about social media at all. Punkt + laptop + smartphone turned off at home is the way to go. I keep my smartphone for bank apps, WhatsApp, and GPS on the rare occasions I travel, but I don’t carry it with me all the time. Sadly, I don’t think this phone will stay on the market for long because most people won’t make this leap. It’s like living in a different reality. If SMS is your main messaging app (USA, I’m talking to you), this probably won’t work for you. No voice clips, no group chats, no images. I do all of that via WhatsApp linked to my laptop, so I’m golden. I’m lucky I can use this. Even if you don't feel as negatively affected by the constant flow of information and excessive screen usage as I do, this phone is worth a try. You deserve to at least remember what it's like to live without the chokehold "the algorithm" has on you.

【バッテリー持ちについて】 添付画像の通りほぼ待ち受け専用かつVoLTE、4Gネットワークを常時ONにして電源は入れっぱなしの状態で1日以上経過しても半分近くバッテリー残量はある状態。約1200mhの容量のバッテリーの中ではかなり保つ部類かと。 【使いやすさ】 UI周りや操作性についてはあまり期待しない方が良い。待ち受けにバッテリー残量が表示出来ないとか、メニューの最下層で↓キー押しても1番上のメニューに行かないなど地味に不便な点がある。 【デザインと感触】 デザインについては人それぞれと思うので割愛。 自分はデザインで一目惚れして購入したのはinfobar xv以来。 サラサラとした触り心地で、各ボタンはしっかりとしたクリック感があり、押し間違えにくい。 また、出っ張り部分が「小さくても持ちやすい、操作しやすい」を見事に両立させている。 唯一残念だなと思ったのはストラップホールが無い事。小さいのでポケットに入れても滑り落ちる可能性が高く、また、アクセサリー類がほぼ無い為各自で対策せねばならないので、次世代はストラップホール実装かアクセサリー類を充実させて欲しい。 電話とテキストメッセージとテザリングと言う最低限の機能だけの携帯なら1万円以下のものもあり、本端末は正直高いと言わざるを得ない。 ただ、それでも持っているだけで所有欲を満たしてくれると言う点が価格を補ってあまりある様に思う。 使いやすさについては厳しいところもあるけれど、通話専用機として持っていてワクワクする端末が欲しい人には迷わずオススメ出来る端末だと思う。 最後に、自分の設定が上手く行かなかったのか、自分はauのSIMでは全く使えなかった。サブで持っていたY!mobileのSIMでは正常に利用出来ている。

It’s impossible to get any notion what using this phone is like without experiencing it first-hand. A picture won’t do. An online review won’t do. In fact, this brings to mind the best thing about this phone: it helps you realize that living life through a screen isn’t living your life, but experiencing someone else’s; you can’t “get” the Punkt experience without, well, actually experiencing it. I “got” the value of this phone when I first pulled it out of my pocket rather mindlessly - compulsively, actually. The interface is designed so. intentionally. It’s the exact opposite (the experience, that is) of the software & hardware on smartphones - I mean, I took my iPhone out to look something up and 3 hours later, here I am writing this review after mindlessly going from one app to the next. I HATE this about technology. I really tried working with the smartphone system - setting screen time limits, deleting social media accounts and apps with “bottomless feeds,” the whole 9 yards; I used to work for Apple and know more than a trick or two in terms of the hardware & software. The limits didn’t work for me because I would get in my own way - I’d just bypass the limitations when I “wanted” to. It didn’t work for me. “At some point you realize it’s riskier to stand where you area rather than moving somewhere else.” Because I realized my way wasn’t working (I was finding myself becoming more and more averse to using my smartphone as an actual phone due to my mixed feelings toward it - I decided this love/hate experience was telling me something. For me, smartphones are too much input, too powerful a tool to have in my pocket 16 hours a day; it was time to go back to the pre-2008 days, time to get a dumbphone and change my relationship with technology. I’m glad today’s rabbit hole led me here to write this review, it was my intention to share my experience with others and offer a different take than the tide of negative reviews on this product. Now I will kindly get the hell off my iPhone; I have things to do, a life to live, dreams to realize and thoughts to string together IRL, not on a screen. This phone isn’t perfect, in fact I wish the battery lasted longer, but Punkt is working on this with software updates. The generation before this (MP01) actually had crazy battery life but 2G got shutdown in many places. Fun fact: call quality back in the day was actually better than it is now - we’ve made trade offs to allow for faster data speeds. Well, Punkt adapted and created a 4G version - and it gets me through a day of use and the software is being updated with fixes that impact hardware & software interfacing such as battery life/performance - what more can I ask? It’s apparent and obvious that the company is as dedicated to serving its customer niche of dedicated disconnectors as smartphone companies are to, well, making hardware & software that demand its users’ attention with ever increasing fervor. Do I think it’s best for everyone? No, but it was the full-stop I needed. This phone is for those that want a master of one trade, not a Jack of all trades but master of none (Litephone, I’m looking at you). If you either already have or don’t need things like: a music player (old smartphone or iPad or iPod) an e-book reader and a camera - than this is the best PHONE I’ve ever used. If you need navigation and music and books and podcasts in one device than maybe the Litephone would be better for you. Well done, Punk - I love what this dumb phone is delivering and having held it in my hands and used it for a week, I can see how brilliantly the idea of a phone like this was executed. Thank you for designing a tool that’s so perfectly, beautifully, and simply: a phone.

Just arrived after prompt and timely delivery. Love the product and overall build quality of the phone. Was also able to update at once to the latest firmware and with no issues so far.

事情があって、たまたまこういったブリックフォンを購入することになったのですが、普段からスマホとタブレットの両方を使っていたので、「用途の違いと言えば電話番号絡みのことだけだなぁ」と思い、Punkt.からテザリングをして、より画面が大きく作業効率の上がるタブレットやモバイルノートPCだけで仕事をするように戻りました。 外に出るときは最低限の持ち出しとしてこれだけを持ち、仕事や趣味はパソコンとタブレットで行うようになってみると、思った以上に気が楽になりました。いつも持ち歩く物なので気づかないうちにスマホに時間を取られていたなぁ、とも感じられ、まさにコンセプトどおりの商品だと思いました。 驚いたことに、実際に使っているところを見た友人知人たちからは非常に好評で、他の人たちもスマホに時間を使われてしまっていることへの悩みがあると、改めて実感しました。なるほど海外の若者たちの間で、こういった端末が流行っているというのはそういうことかと、逆に新鮮な体験です。 初期不良のある個体に当たってしまったのですが、こちらの販売元が懇切丁寧な対応をしてくださり、あっという間に交換をしてくださいました。国内利用者の少ない輸入品のサポートとしては驚くほど手厚く、とても助かりました。

No tiene buena calidad, presenta daños en la pantalla líquida, poca batería, y el mandar un mensaje es un reto. Por lo demás funciona de manera aceptable