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

Worth it but do your research
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.

It’s doing it’s job if you’re getting upset with it.
So only Con out of the way was the quality of the packaging. The phone was not secure in the box and the powder coat was rubbed off in several places and transferred onto the box.Now the title, it’s a high quality powered coated aluminum shell with a small rubber backing to prevent it from slipping or getting damaged from setting it down. The whole point of this phone is to disconnect and it’s bare bones Features does that job well. It has everything you need just to communicate. The first few days that’s probably gonna upset you but again remember why you chose this. Re-learning how to text on a number pad will take time but the muscle memory slowly came back. Signal was a pain to set up but I believe that was more on signal’s side and not the phone.Baseline it’s a highly polished high quality phone with everything you need to disconnect from a over connected world. After the first few days of adjusting you’ll come to love the minimalist feel.Lastly if you have T-mobile you can get this running on the DIGITS with high speed data (the $20 one not the cheapest, the high speed is 4g while the base is 2g) after getting the sim wait for a text that it’s been paired and all text/calls should go to this phone as well all while using the same number on two devices. This allows you to keep your smartphone at home.

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.

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。