Punkt.MP02 4G LTE Minimalist Mobile Phone - Unlocked Cell Phone with Nano-SIM, Wi-Fi Hotspot, 2GB RAM+16GB Storage, Bluetooth, Digital Security, Multiband - Black

Like a lot of people, I was tired of spending too much time on my smartphone and becoming distracted by all the notifications. I wanted a simpler device with only what I absolutely needed. Before purchasing the Punkt. MP02, I powered down my iPhone and switched over to an old flipphone for about a month. What I experienced, can only be described as FREEDOM. After using the flipphone for a month, I felt ready for another “downgrade“. I use the term “downgrade“ in referrence only to the loss of functions I came to consider as unncessary. After setting up my new Punkt. MP02, what I actually had was an upgrade.I really love the minimalist interface and barebones features of this phone. It is aesthetically pleasing, both the physical phone and the interface. Besides a calculator, notes, clock-stopwatch, and calendar, what you have is a phone that basically does a couple of things, calls and text. There is no camera, and no internet browser on this device. The call quality is good in my opinion. I actually have not noticed much difference from any other mobile phone I have used. Having to text is annoying, but I do not text much anyhow. For work, I use a BoxWave Bluetooth Keyboard in order to quickly respond to coworkers. I do not carry this keyboard around with me of course, that would be ridiculous, but it stays at my work station just in case I get a text that requires a lengthy response.Besides having to adjust with a few minor workarounds, I have in no way felt that I have given anything up. Overall, this phone is great and I have been using it as my only phone for 6 months now. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to either take a break from smartphone slavery or permenantly leave it behind. My one and ONLY complaint is the battery life is not what I would have expected for such a minimal mobile phone. I charge it once about every two or three days depending on usage, but I was having to charge my iPhone daily.

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.