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1.0 out of 5 starsLove and hate it! Major notificaion problem!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023
I've had it a little over a year now. I'm going to go into description of only the problems. For about the first 4 months, pocket mode was horrible until a update fixed it. That's the only update it's ever had. I was able to disable it until the update. I'm actually not sure if the feature still exists after checking that the update re-enabled it.
Case selection is very few. The case I bought and screen protector is way too tight of a fit. about .020" if it had it centered properly but that's almost impossible to do. Fingerprint reader is hit or miss. Sometimes it won't read my thumb, few times it's opened for my thumb nail or other fingers.
The camera is strange. You see it in the viewer and then you look at the picture you took and it's different colors and not grainy. USB C file transfer is horribly slow. Like dialup speeds. It's faster for my to transfer my files from my phone to my micro sd and then take the micro sd card out and plug that into my computer.
The thing that is making me want to throw away this phone is the notifications. When I first go it, every single app was spamming the heck out of the phone and it took forever to disable them all as it had to be done as they popped up for some reason. Maybe that was how it worked at the time or I just didn't find the menu for it at the time.
At some point early on I noticed that my notifications were delayed. Sometimes over a hour delayed. To this day my phone will start beeping off several times when it gets a influx of notifications. Anywhere from 5 minutes to a hour late.
I've spent hours googling this problem only to see the same answers over and over and none of them fixed it. Same with Facebook Messenger which is very important to me. Literally 90% of the time it will not give me a notification. I have to constantly check it. Today I even noticed I didn't get a notification for a txt message which is very unusual. Sometimes all is good but very often this happens.
A annoying thing is that there are Android apps and Nord Apps. I have no idea to this day which one I should use and why.
Updating apps on Android is pretty bad. The app store is as bad as Apple's.
Pros:
Cheap
large storage
micro sd slot for more storage
3.5mm jack
usb c fast charge
battery last 2 days of streaming youtube music videos 8hrs a day over bluetooth and then some.
Cons:
Notifications!!!
File transfer over USB-C at dialup speeds!!!
Finger reader
Case selection
Inconsistently slow
Camera Viewer
App Updates
App store