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As of 2022-08-13 I've been using this phone for a week and am quite pleased with it.
Its feature set is limit to precisely what I want:
It is clear that the maker is catering to those who don't want phones that vie for their attention. The frugalmatic review linked below notes that they have found a market in Jewish and Amish Americans who take unusual care in managing their relationship with communication technologies.
The makers of this phone clearly paid a great deal of attention to small details of the user experience. For example, there are dedicated LEDs on the front of the phone that indicate from a distance when you have unread text messages (green light), when the phone is charging (blinking red light), or fully charged (solid red light). The T9 predictive text dictionary is very large. Emoji are easy to access.
One fault I've found is that contacts are not automatically imported into the address book from the SIM card, as is typical for phones like this. Numbers from the SIM card will autocomplete, but will not appear in one's contact list.
While similar in its feature set the the Blu Z5, the hardware and software are significantly better. While the F1 Daisy costs $200 (roughly 4x the Blu Z5), I suspect the Z5 would have only lasted a few more months as a daily driver.
Sunbeam Wireless Brochure for the F1 Daisy.