New Phone Again

 

I got a new phone again...

It's called ALT MIVE Style Folder 1

AT-M120

I really liked the 902KC, it was perfect in every way except one: 

When I deleted Facebook Messenger I went back to LINE, 

And the 902KC does not have Google Play service, so LINE can't get notifications properly.

If I want to use LINE on it, I have to remember to manually check all the time if anyone contacted me, which is impossible for me...

And the 902KC bootloader is permanently locked so no MicroG either. 

So basically I had to give up on that phone if I want to use LINE unfortunately.

I'm pretty sad about it because I really liked it.

I could've upgraded to the newer A202KC or KY42C which can have MicroG added in some cases, but then I saw something that interested me...

Very recently there was success in making this other smart flip work in my area of the US, it was not really known before that if it worked or on what carrier. 

So I decided to blindly trust what one person said and just buy it and switch carriers and just hope for the best lol

and it worked!

Well it's not perfect, sometimes it's dropping service randomly (it did it once early this morning and once while I'm writing this). I hope I can work that out and it will be fine though.

I bought it on GlobalBunjang through Delivered. I paid $39.34 USD for the phone and $49.31 for shipping and customs.

So yeah... I paid more on importing it than I did on the phone itself... If you wondered what the tariff from Korea was like, now you know w.

Here's some basics about the phone:

It's a completely smart flip phone with a touchscreen and it runs Android 12Go.

I can see that the date of the first call made on my unit was in September 2024, so it's a little over a year old! (how cool)

There is a newer Style Folder 2 that runs Android 14Go but I didn't think I need it. Also, there weren't many available on the secondhand sites anyways. 

It has 2GB RAM so it's twice what I had on the old flip, so this phone can even run Youtube, streaming apps, SNS, photo editing apps, etc! 

Of course I'm not using much of any of that though.

Oh also it has a 3.5mm headphone jack! My old flip did not have this, very exciting.

And, a front facing camera!

The major downside to this phone is obviously it's size... I mean this thing is insane. 

It really feels ridiculous and cartoonish in my hand lol

compared to an iPhone 13

But it is what it is. I had to trade off style and form factor to get google play service. 

I wanna say, a lot of people call this a dumbphone, say they're gonna use it for "digital detoxing", etc. 

That really annoys me honestly. 

This is NOT a dumbphone, it barely even qualifies as a feature phone, only by the fact that it's running the Go version of android rather than the full OS.

You can run any SnS on it, youtube, streaming, spotify, chatgpt, it's literally just a smartphone. If this is a dumbphone, all phones are dumbphones wwww

Ok rant over.