S22 Smart Flip Phone (16GB) 2.8" Touchscreen Rugged Cell Phone Android 11, IP68 Water Resistant, 4G LTE GSM Single Nano Slot, Compatible with T-Mobile, AT&T (Black)

If you have a habit of leaving your phone in the goat house, wish to charm the older folk, or want another device to play your favorite 2006 gba game Mother 3 this gorgeous brick is for you. Yes, this cockin' peice of equipment truly has it all. I lost my last phone in the chaos of treating my dear nubian goat 'Sweetie' for scours, not sure wether i left it outside or it fell into a pile of the liquds that were pouring from her rear. But either way it was gone, and honestly wouldn't have lasted much longer either way, ive never had my phones stay alive on me more than a year. But this gorgeous thing is so rugged and heavy that it makes my hardened toll hands look petite. I could use the screen to stir the milk into my piping hot cup of Yorkshire tea, while video calling my good buddy many miles away in England, and the thing would find it enriching. Every old person thats seen it so far has fallen in love and wished it to be their own. and whipping it out in a crowd of pretentious people who brag about their new apple ipod225egad+ is truly satisfying. They can laugh at it if they wish, but they will never know the joy of simple joy of sitting outside in the grass for hours and thinking of things that make you happy. All they know is scrolling that certain horrid app at the tiniest trickle of boredom and using ai to write their essays, further destroying their ability to think and use their brains. I was a bit worried about the complications of getting service to it and wether it was truly unlocked because it seemed some people had troubles with it, but I was able to do it easily without hassle. The programmable button on the side is immensely handy, i set it to turn on my flashlight which speaking of is very bright. The camera and microphone quality really isn't half bad, actually better than my previous phone, ill attach a few photos taken with it. You cant do professional photography with it but it does its job. I did see a few complaning about short battery life but I haven't been bothered by that at all yet. It might drain quickly if your spending hours on it scrolling, but if thats what your doing with it, its not really the phone for you, It lasts me multiple days with light use. And it can emulate Mother 3!!! And you can use the physical buttons as the controller instead of having crap ones on the screen!?! This phone is truly a work of art. it might not be for everyone but it was exactly what I needed in a phone, I highly recommend it. Edit: after a good run of 4 months I have already very tragically lost my gorgeous beloved phone, it did not break, and I guarantee it is still functioning wherever it is. I simply accidentally dropped it in the woods somewhere while taking my previously mentioned Sweetie for a walk, but It served me incredibly well in that time, when I someday get another phone, it will be for sure one of these. After my time with it I could never use another. It was nice having people have the ability to call me but for now it might be best to go back to my phoneless ways, until we meet again cat s22 my love.

It is very rare that I dislike something enough to leave a negative review. If you were hoping for a flip phone that had T9 typing, think again. This specific re-release of the CAT S22 does not have it stock. The weird insistence on using the tiny touchscreen's keyboard is infuriating enough, but there are few decent T9 keyboard apps to try that still require some use of the touchscreen. I find that rather unforgivable. If you're paying for a daily phone with modern app connectivity, perhaps it is worth it. But the battery life hardly lasting a few hours with consistent use (checking emails, files, mild browsing usage) is ridiculous. I hardly see a point in a removeable battery when the back is difficult to remove and put back on. I understand the seal is to help the water resistance but it feels unnecessarily challenging to do something that should be simple. Not to mention it's just simply unwieldy and ugly. Heavy, rugged, difficult to open with a single hand, and you risk the hinge pinching your hand or finger! The touchscreen seems fairly unreliable and not as sensitive as it could be. Disabling the "keypad tones" does not even work so using the T9 keyboard sounds obnoxious. Want a flip phone with app features? Where you won't have to fiddle with it like you would a keitai or backloading apks onto it like you'd need to with any other option? Then sure, at the very least try this phone. But if I'm more willing to put work into my beat-down keitai that connects to only two bands of American data and can't even receive MMS messages at the moment, that might tell you about this phone's worth. It can call. Text (with an on screen tiny keyboard, not so much with T9 without being infuriating). MMS is no problem. App compatibility is hardly an issue. Hardly pocketable with its size and rubbery texture. Doesn't work with Android Auto. Get a keitai. A Nokia flip. A TCL flip. Get a Garmin or car navigation. Save app usage for your PC or workplace and rely on your stock browser. Carry a second phone with you that's nearly outdated like the iPhone SE. Sometimes you gotta compromise. I do not think this device is worthwhile for what it's meant to be.

I have been super happy and excited about this phone. I have gone through many different flip phones and have been very dissapointed by the quality and performance. When I got this phone I did not have such high hopes, however I am really enjoying using it and don't have any complaints! First of all, the phone is super durable and has not gotten any damage from falling on the floor or by being dropped. The screen size is smaller than a regular iPhone but still large enough that you can read text messages without squinting. The operating system is the same as regular android phones which makes it easy to navigate. I have service though RedPocket mobile (T-mobile) and have not had any issues with connectivity. One con is that in order for people to hear you clearly through the phone you need to have it positioned in a specific way near your ear or else the person on the other part of the line can't hear you. The speakerphone is great and the phone works well with apple airpods as well. The phone holds charge well and can last a day to a day and a half without being charged. Overall, this was a great buy and I highly recommend to anyone who wants a reliable and durable flip phone.

Sadly, there are reasons this phone is listed at the time of review as "frequently returned". I really wanted to like it. I knew it would be slow (lower end processor and only 2G RAM), but what isn't mentioned is that this is running on a signed but less well tested aftermarket / altered version of the ROM, so it doesn't exactly line up with what is widely listed on the internet. The benefits of this change: The company has removed some of the bloatware present on the official OS, including those features that are carrier-specific or are no longer functional because the previous distributor shut down. However, it seems some glitches were introduced as well. Bluetooth frequently crashes in a silent manner, forcing a full reboot to get it working again. On the flip side, the phone will also sometimes spontaneously reboot, so half of the time it solves itself. Carrier compatibility has been hit-or-miss even with fully manual APN entry, buttons and screen taps sometimes think they've been double-pressed or long-pressed when they are only clicked quickly, and quite a few apps Google lists as compatible will either crash or complain about missing permissions despite having been granted. If that wasn't enough, in less than a couple weeks, the cell radio stopped reliably connecting to the carrier. In hopes that it was merely some kind of corrupt data (cache) issue, I mistakenly tried to wipe and factory reset the phone. Now it powers on long enough to flash the 'Powered by Android Go' screen, and then it dies. When connected by USB, my computer shows the phone is suffering from the dreaded 900e error, and there is no public tool that can recover this device. In other words, it's now nothing but an extremely expensive paperweight. I really wanted to like it. It was one of the few remaining real Android devices in a flip phone package. It has a durable case, promises decent battery life, and it looked like a good compromise between compact design and functionality. Unfortunately, this particular model or at least this one unit turned out to be a poorly supported 💩. I'm leaving this review with 3 stars because despite the numerous issues, the ultimate and complete failure was caused by my choice to reset the phone. However, be warned so the mistakes and lessons here might prevent someone else from doing the same and losing their investment.

Well built phone! No technical problems just lacking some features that I would appreciate and took some getting used to. I previously had a Sunbeam F1 Pro Aspen flip phone. I loved that phone, it was simple, well designed, cute, etc. But after a year, the camera and the touchscreen stopped working and that made it harder to use. I got this phone because the price seemed fine and I’ve heard good things. But I also heard some bad things including: double typing letters, heating up, slow. Honestly I haven’t had those problems! The battery life is great, function is great, easy to use with some modifications. I installed O launcher to make it more minimalist but I can use apps I like such as YouTube music and google maps. My main complaint is that I can’t use the keypad to type!!! I loved T9 predictive text, I hate that I can’t do that easily on this phone. I tried installing apps to let me do it but they were clunky and didnt have a way to use !?:() and emojis… So I deal with the touchscreen keyboard which thankfully has swiping text and voice text. I installed google keyboard to make the experience better. Thankfully this phone is customizable. That’s all I have to say!

This review is from someone who is a tech savvy person. I've used pretty much any consumer electronic under the sun and can build a computer with my eyes closed, so take this with however much or little salt as you want. I consider myself a tech enthusiast, but have a love/hate relationship with it. Specifically with smartphones because they have become a plague on society, turning peoples' brains and attention spans into mush - designed to draw you in and steal your time from living outside of your dang screen. I was born in 93 so I'm not old (yet), and I am so sick of seeing people of all generations who can't sit at a dinner table or in a movie theater without pulling out their smartphones that I just don't even want to own one anymore. I am not someone who is addicted to their phone to begin with - I really only use it for utility purposes - but knew I still needed to be able to do mobile banking and also use my home security apps, and maybe GPS sometimes. I've looked at a bunch of old school flip style phones but none of them really seemed to have the capabilities I needed. Then I came across this - saw that it had a touchscreen, ran android, and the ability to remove most of the bloatware that comes on devices. I bought it, charged it, and tested it for one day, and by the end of the day decided this was the perfect balance of a smartphone and dumbphone. It has live GPS positioning like your smart phone instead of the "step by step" written instructions that other flip phones have, I was able to use my Chase banking app to deposit a check and transfer funds between accounts, was able to log into the Ring app to check my house alarm status, and was able to use my Kasa security app to check the live camera feed from my home. Technically you could probably download a lot of other apps from the android store, but the old school design and small screen of this phone would definitely discourage a lot of people. The only downsides I've encountered is that because this is a flip phone, it doesn't have a powerful processor in it...meaning that apps that take your smartphone a second or two to open might take this phone up to 10 seconds to open. Installing apps from the app store can also take a bit (one of the 3 apps I mentioned took up to 5 minutes to download over a solid wifi connection). The other issue I've come across is that because the screen is small, sometimes the digital keyboard will take up half the screen and make it difficult to see what you're looking at. Thankfully you can use the # key of the keypad to cycle between the digital keyboard and the old style numerical keyboard, which will give you full view of your screen back, and then you can scroll as needed, then switch back to the digital keyboard if you want. The battery life seems about on par with the Pixel 8a smartphone I switched from so far. I charged it up yesterday morning, and was on it quite a bit while I tinkered with it, set up my settings, downloaded apps, and switched my service over to it. As of now, 24 hours later, it still has 46% charge left, which with my type of usage I'm sure will probably last today and most of tomorrow. So if you are a utilitarian person like me, I expect a full charge with minimal usage could average 3-4 days of battery life. UPDATE: Alrighty, a few days later, I think I've got the phone fully customized and tailored to me. Everything I don't need is disabled and battery saver is on. After a full charge and minimal usage (1 or 2 phone calls, several texts), it's lost about 20% in about 30 hours....so my guess of 3-4 days was accurate.

Was a neat little phone, but lasted less than a year before the keypad started acting up. Pushing a button sometimes doesn't register, or sometimes it registers 2, 3, or 4 times from a single press which makes typing slow and frustrating.

This phone had many problems which caused me to write a negative review. Keep in mind that a lot of my problems described could be that the phone uses android 11, which has been out of life since 2024. However I believe if a phone is still purchasable brand new then it should be expected to work. A large hardware issue for me is that as soon as I started to use the phone the 3,6, and 9 t9 buttons would get double clicked when I would press the key once. Sometimes even 3 clicks for every single press. This makes it almost impossible to use the physical buttons on the phone for typing. My phone was also not able to pick up group message texts. For context I switched from a IPhone Xs to this flip phone. I tried changing the RCS and MMS settings on the phone. I also tried unsubscribing from IMessage on my Iphone. Lastly I tried to recreate new group chats under my google account which also failed to pick up any messages from users in the group chats I created. A software/ hardware issue I ran into was with the speaker. sometimes during the day the audio would stop working on the phone, despite changing multiple volume options. The only way to fix this was for me to restart the phone. On average I was restarting my phone at least 3 times a day to deal with the speakers giving out. I intentionally bought this phone so I wouldn't spend so much time on it. I know downgrading from a IPhone to a flip phone would be a difficult transition however I had so many problems with basic phone functionalities that I need to return this.