I was hunting for a small, powerful android phone and accidentally discovered this weird flashlight model. Props to Unihertz for attemping features that other people aren’t . Personally I think this phone is too big for my needs/wants but interesting design anyway. I’m wondering what emitter it uses.
At least this is something new in smartphone. (The smartphone market has hardly developed at all for the last 5 to 10 years. Just better, faster, thinner, bigger, that’s all that matters…)
Exactly. I’m tired of large companies trying to spin the removal of useful features as modernization. Give me back my SD card slot, my 3.5mm headphone jack, and my removable battery! Or at least do something new besides adding the umpteenth camera lens.
One of those Unihertz phones actually has a built in laser projector. It sounds crazy, and probably doesn’t work great yet, but I could see that being a useful feature for sharing what you are looking at with others in a room.
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This Unihertz phone on the other hand is also not great.
Android 12, wtf? ‘Upgrade to the latest Android 12 operating system’ - latest? Probably not 
This device is also unlikely to receive updates for long, if at all - after all, this issue has improved significantly at Samsung, Google and the like, there is sometimes more than one major update and even security updates for a few years… it is basically a typical Chinese phone with Mediatek SoC and customized Android, like thousends others on the market. At least the COB on the back is interesting, especially since the driver for this LED has to be very special, because COB operates at forward voltages of 9 to 36 V or above.
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True. I think they are trying to corner a different corner of the market. There is a large subset of people who don’t care about the latest version of Android and there is probably some correlation between not caring about the latest version of android and looking for a tiny android phone. If you are looking for some of these features (like an IR blaster??) you probably want them pretty badly too.
The size is deceptive --the Jelly Star is twice the thickness of my iPhone 13 mini.
The processor is not amazing but not the worst. My last phone had a Snapdragon 665 and apparently the G99 is somewhat competitive with that. Plus, it’s driving a small screen.
Anyway, I just hope that some of their interesting ideas bleed out onto the mainstream phone market.