anyone here got a keitai/garaho? they're Japanese (or sometimes Korean!) flip phones that run Android and support 4G, and they just look so pwettyy 🥺
this is the model I have - it's a Sharp Aquos 806SH in green, made in 2019, and it runs Android 8.1. ngl this is my favourite design of flip phone so this is my most prized possession, I will protect it with my life <3
i do >:) mine is a kyocera ky42c in white. i'm a year and a half or so into using it. it's soooo cute, the only bad part of using it is the "why are you using a flip phone?" from people who are very obviously NOT IMPRESSED WITH MY LIFE CHOICES.
honestly i don't know why more people don't use these kinds of phones... even just economically. i see people really struggling to pay off their cell phone bills all the time, and you can save a lot. i spent extra on mine to get a brand new one with fast shipping but you could totally get one for less than $90 on y!auction, plus you will ultimately spend less on data. maybe i have inflated opinions on people's tech literacy though lol
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i do >:) mine is a kyocera ky42c in white. i'm a year and a half or so into using it. it's soooo cute, the only bad part of using it is the "why are you using a flip phone?" from people who are very obviously NOT IMPRESSED WITH MY LIFE CHOICES. honestly i don't know why more people don't use these kinds of phones... even just economically. i see people really struggling to pay off their cell phone bills all the time, and you can save a lot. i spent extra on mine to get a brand new one with fast shipping but you could totally get one for less than $90 on y!auction, plus you will ultimately spend less on data. maybe i have inflated opinions on people's tech literacy though lol
tbh if you know where to look you can get rlly good prices! I started with a KYF42 I had for a few months, it had overheating and battery issues but tbh it was so worth it imo, when I moved on I passed it on to my gf... that phone was £30, I kid you not! super worth it
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already wrote:i do >:) mine is a kyocera ky42c in white. i'm a year and a half or so into using it. it's soooo cute, the only bad part of using it is the "why are you using a flip phone?" from people who are very obviously NOT IMPRESSED WITH MY LIFE CHOICES. honestly i don't know why more people don't use these kinds of phones... even just economically. i see people really struggling to pay off their cell phone bills all the time, and you can save a lot. i spent extra on mine to get a brand new one with fast shipping but you could totally get one for less than $90 on y!auction, plus you will ultimately spend less on data. maybe i have inflated opinions on people's tech literacy though loltbh if you know where to look you can get rlly good prices! I started with a KYF42 I had for a few months, it had overheating and battery issues but tbh it was so worth it imo, when I moved on I passed it on to my gf... that phone was £30, I kid you not! super worth it
and that is like the totally least relevant positive of them :) even the typing is good because it keeps me from going on stupid rants when i'm bored instead of getting up and just doing something else. luv it luv it luv it <3
agreed!! and I love how the software is too, it feels very late 00s despite being Android, and the sounds especially on Kyocera phones are rlly fun! :D altho rn I'm waiting for a launcher designed for keitais to drop, so I won't be using the default one for much longer
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@already agreed!! and I love how the software is too, it feels very late 00s despite being Android, and the sounds especially on Kyocera phones are rlly fun! :D altho rn I'm waiting for a launcher designed for keitais to drop, so I won't be using the default one for much longer
at first i really wanted an alternate launcher, to the point where i considered making one myself... but my default one eventually grew on me. if you want to try out a launcher that works pretty well on flip phones and can be run beside a more typical one, you should try blue line console off f-droid. it's a simple customizable search that takes keyboard input and launches whatever you type in. i use it beside the default launcher so i don't have to navigate through a bunch of folders just to open an app that's not stock.
the main stock apps i still use are the calendar/simple memo system plus all the basic tools (camera, calculator, alarm etc). i really like how well designed and unbloated the stock apps are :) when you try replacements from various app directories, it's immediately obvious on a more low-memory phone like a garuho that they are really badly optimized and eat up tons of memory and space that they dont need... and for what! and custom emoji sets the phones have loaded are so cute :)
the default launcher is rlly good. personally I'm not gonna switch launchers until Natsukashi UI drops tho tbh
can't wait for it to drop :D
I fucking love them! Their designs are so cunty but I wanna flip phone that only does messages or if it does have apps, it just has google maps, hot-spotting available and like maybe my bank.
@Benvolio_o you can probably do a lot of those on these flip phones. Google Maps has to be Google Maps Go which is fairly limited unfortunately - reason being most Maps apps rely on Google Play Services and Google Location Services which these phones don't have (a good thing imo). a lot of people think it's because they're Japanese - that's simply untrue. ironically since Google Maps Go is a browser based app it just works, despite it being a Google service. unfortunately it just gives a static list of directions with manual progressing through each step. I wish someone made an OpenStreetMaps app that works with these keitais.
messaging apps will usually work, banking apps probably won't work but even if they did I recommend using a modern Android device for security reasons - like your old smartphone or a tablet.
what's neat is since you sideload apps with a PC it's pretty much loading up apps on your phone and leaving them. you never get the urge to install more apps. just install what you need and it works :D
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