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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.

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.

Pros: no internet, no browser, no apps, no tracking, no unnecessary notifications. I love it is not a distraction. This phone feels solid and comfortable in my hand. It doesn't feel like a heavy computer weighing down my gym shorts. I love the feel of pressing actual buttons. Love the USB-c charger. The extra botton press to unlock. Loved the loon alarm.Cons: Pigion or signal or whatever can only be used with other users; I cannot ask 40 other people im in group chats with to change over. No group chats for the regular phone messagin is very confusing. Have you ever come back to your phone and found 15 messages in a group chat? Well here they come through as individual messages and then I have to go back through all the individual messages and try to piece everything together. I did not like have to unlock my phone to see IF there was a notification. I often have my ringer off but take a quick sec here and there to glance at notifications, not efficient to have to unlock phone first. The menu is clunky. The think there are too many menu items and sub menu items. Navigation is not quick, but it would speed up much more if there were multi directional buttons instead of just up and down.The clunky slow menu and the lack of group messages will be the reason for my return. I love almost everything of this phone and I was willing to sacrifice on the clunky menu until the group messages started. These two items caused me to be on my phopne much much longer than i want to be

For a designer product, this thing doesn't execute too well.Note that the phone comes with TWO layers of screen protectors, and the lower layer often ships with ugly bubbles. Carefully peel off the two layers to reveal the main screen.Its big privacy feature, the Pigeon Signal client, stops working every three months.The contacts editing UI is awkward, prompting you to erase changes when you're not even making any changes.There is only one alarm sound, and it is annoying. There are a handful of messaging alert sounds, equally awful, and a few more ringtone choices. They're all bird noises that are more jarring than anything else.The company spends a lot of time hyping their products to new customers on Twitter, but little time resolving the hundreds of bugs and quirks for their existing customer base.Even the worst, most cheaply made Android phone has better notification controls than this supposedly lifestyle enriching phone.You cannot reply to MMS SMS chat groups.