Punkt.MP02 4G LTE Minimalist Mobile Phone - Unlocked Cell Phone with Nano-SIM, Wi-Fi Hotspot, 2GB RAM+16GB Storage, Bluetooth, Digital Security, Multiband - Light Blue

Like a lot of people, I was tired of spending too much time on my smartphone and becoming distracted by all the notifications. I wanted a simpler device with only what I absolutely needed. Before purchasing the Punkt. MP02, I powered down my iPhone and switched over to an old flipphone for about a month. What I experienced, can only be described as FREEDOM. After using the flipphone for a month, I felt ready for another “downgrade“. I use the term “downgrade“ in referrence only to the loss of functions I came to consider as unncessary. After setting up my new Punkt. MP02, what I actually had was an upgrade.I really love the minimalist interface and barebones features of this phone. It is aesthetically pleasing, both the physical phone and the interface. Besides a calculator, notes, clock-stopwatch, and calendar, what you have is a phone that basically does a couple of things, calls and text. There is no camera, and no internet browser on this device. The call quality is good in my opinion. I actually have not noticed much difference from any other mobile phone I have used. Having to text is annoying, but I do not text much anyhow. For work, I use a BoxWave Bluetooth Keyboard in order to quickly respond to coworkers. I do not carry this keyboard around with me of course, that would be ridiculous, but it stays at my work station just in case I get a text that requires a lengthy response.Besides having to adjust with a few minor workarounds, I have in no way felt that I have given anything up. Overall, this phone is great and I have been using it as my only phone for 6 months now. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to either take a break from smartphone slavery or permenantly leave it behind. My one and ONLY complaint is the battery life is not what I would have expected for such a minimal mobile phone. I charge it once about every two or three days depending on usage, but I was having to charge my iPhone daily.

I have been using a light phone for 6 or 7 years. Supply issues made me choose a different phone. This phone just does not work very well. The buttons dont work well at all. Its as if they are wearing out, and the phone isnt but a few months old. T9 texting is archaic. You also cant receive or text multiple people at once. The interface is just unnecessarily complicated. Punkt I genuinely appreciate your efforts, but please give people who are dedicated to living this life style a call before your next model. Again its only a few months old and the archaic T9 buttons I have to push to text are already functioning poorly.

Update: decided not to return the phone. The limitations described before are still there, but I have agreed to live with them.Had this phone for about a week and a half now. The punkt MP02 is really unmatched in its style and design. For those of us looking for a truly minimalist phone that in all possible ways discourages endless scrolling/ "app jumping", yet at the same time provides essential functions like high quality voice calling, minimal texting, and wifi tethering when needed, nothing on the market beats punkt's concept. It is an elegant concept with an equally elegant hardware. No news, no social media, no games, no icons - the only reason you will pull this phone out of your pocket is to either call someone, or answer a call. The speaker quality is also excellent.With that said, the phone's software is woefully lacking. Fundamental technologies that are standard to the modern world like MMS/group chat and WiFi calling are not supported. Although the Signal platform implemented via the pigeon app works, it is impossible to link an additional device to the punkt as it lacks a camera to scan the QR code. (I'm okay with no camera, but I wish there was a work-around to link another device). The battery life is very poor - especially for a such a feature-less phone. The battery seems to last about 2 and 1/2 days for me on standby (with me not doing anything at all with the phone). The WiFi tethering eats up the battery at rate of about 40 % in 30 minutes. Even more annoying is the poor reception on T-Mobile's network. One would think such a pricey phone that is marketed as a high quality voice phone "built with the 21st century in mind" would have a powerful antenna and support every single frequency out there, but the phone barely has network signal in a urban-suburban setting. Network is non-existent when indoors. I can't imagine it being hard to implement/ improve these seemingly basic features, but the punkt team really bluffed with the software. I tried so hard to try and justify the price for this phone, but at the end of the day, it doesn't make the cut. When you are unable to make and receive phone calls at most times, that really defeats the purpose of any phone - especially that of the punkts. I considered keeping the phone, and hoped they do a major revamp of the software, but I am wary of that ever happening. This phone has been around in some from since 2015. That is plenty of time during which nothing was improved. I will sadly have to return this device before its return deadline expires. Hopefully, Punkt rethinks their strategy and give this beautiful phone the software it deserves.

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.