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Blackview BL9000.
It's a huge cellular brick, weighing 400+g, 2cm thick, chunky boy with protective case. Doubles as a self defense device and will remain functional afterwards. Reignited my love for big and heavy things.
Normal phones are ruined forever for me now. Going from my phone to a normal one my wife has is like going from a normal phone to a credit card and pretending it's a phone.
It was rather cheap, solid hardware, most people complain about the bad camera, but i find it completely sufficient.
Main issue over software came later, about a year in they did a software update during which they started to send ads under system messages. Cant turn it off either, though at least i can turn it to once a day and silent, though they have increased it to 3in1 by now and just found out that it saved a preview picture of the ad to the devices temporary folder. Not much of a space issues, though annoying as those did came up when searching for pictures.
Similar here. I own the Power Armor 18 from Ulefone. Also a rugged phone and yes. I'm also never going back to small phones
That's a nice one as well. How's that? Any hidden issues? As the ads on my Blackview will most definitely make me avoid that brand in the future, but the overall style of the phone is rather good.
Ulefones do seem to fall under the same design.
The power button stopped working after a year and a half. Admittedly, after I dropped it, but one would expect a rugged phone to be able to take the hit without damage. I did manage to reconfigure the phone to turn the screen of with the menu button, and to activate it using the fingerprint button. Besides that, the phone works flawlessly. I have no complaints