DuraXV Extreme E4810 16GB Verizon | Ultra-Rugged Flip Phone IP68 Rated | 4G LTE HD Voice| 5MP Camera | 1770mAh Battery

Ok, never thought I would be writting a review for a flip phone it here goes. I've had a smart performance years and always thought nothing else would do, but I noticed i was spending a lot of time with my face in my phone. So I decided to check my screen time only to be shocked. For the past 7 days I found out that I had spent 37.8 hours looking into my phone screen. I new I had to do something to stop this, so I thought about a flip phone. I started looking on line at different phones and I ran across this one on Amazon. I will have to say this is the best flip phone I have ever used. Everything the advertisement says about the phone is true. If you are looking to dumb down on your phone this is the one I recommend. If you like to text a lot this phone may not be for you, it is a flip phone and it texts like a flip phone. But other than texting, this phone is excellent. 4G where most flip phones 2or 3G, 16 gigs of storage 5 megapixel camera with 720hd video, a hot spot, web browser, Bluetooth a d wifi. What else could you ask for on a flip phone. I'm use straight talk and had an active sims card so all I had to do put my sims card into the phone and power it on and it was ready to use. With all that said I will have to give this phone 5 stars.

Good value. Sturdy. Functions well. Easy to use.

Good phone, battery sucks. Bought for an Amish construction crew. Have had it for a year and we are on our third battery. Phone still holding up strong. Replacement batteries are cheap enough that it’s not to big of an issue.

I purchased this as a dedicated car phone to replace my old Motorola phone with built-in amplifier. This old-style flip phone lends itself quite well for that role, as it has a headphone jack that sends a signal to an amplifier that powers a speaker in the car. The touch pad keys are always on display; the phone is mounted open on an adjustable stalk where the old phone was located. Some auxiliary electronic equipment was necessary to step down the 12-volt car voltage to 5 volts to power the phone and a filter to remove engine whine. A lot of work to recreate some of what was lost when Verizon went to 5G, making my old phone obsolete. Yes, carrying a smart phone while in the car works and there are hands-free kits for that, I'm sure. Just call me old-fashioned.

Does it make a call easily? Yes but only if it is charged (more on that later) A review stated the operating system is linux based but it did NOT set up like a linux distro. It just stated that something went wrong and to call a number. I mean where are the prompt screens asking to establish passwords and account information that a normal linux install asks for? I had to take it to a Verizon store to activate it because of this. Charging the phone is wonky, sometimes it charges, sometimes it DOES NOT. My old dumbphone would just charge when plugged in as does my Kindle. Turning it on is weird as one has to hold the on button down for a number of seconds. I mean that’s how one turns off a desktop PC if it is hung up and yet this turns on this phone which is basically a micro PC. The GUI is a disaster and it will take months if not years to figure out. What is wrong with a Win 9x GUI (Trinity rocks)? The buttons do not do the same thing every time, so trying to figure out the commands is proving to be almost impossible. My Kindle is recognized as an external drive as soon I plug it in my desktop PC and when I poked around this phone it looked like it would do the same as a Kindle but NOTHING. So all the features it brags about like the phone being a music player do not work easily if at all. If this phone had a Win 9x GUI it might actually be a good phone but with the difficulty of charging it and the horrible GUI it has it is barely usable.