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Blu Z5 Cellular Phone

I've gone through five or six simple phones in as many years. This is my daily driver as of 2022-03-04.

Pros

I expect the battery to last three to four days without charging with normal use.
Construction seems solid, recalling the Nokia handsets of the early 2000s. I'm not worried about dropping it.
There is an extremely, extremely, limited web browser (Opera?) that is really only useful for pure text web pages (e.g. Gemini through a proxy). This can be used to look up turn by turn directions in a pinch.
The web browser is far too limited to (e.g.) load gmail, so I am offline enough.
Menus for basic SMS functionality are well thought out.
Seems to support MMS ("group texts"), which many simple phones do not.

Cons

I'd be surprised if this phone lasted a decade.
Camera too low resolution to be useful, probably better omitted entirely.
Can play MP3s off an SD card, but output sounds unpleasantly high-pass filtered to me.

Blu Z5 Cellular Phone

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