Nokia 2780 Flip | Unlocked | KaiOS | Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile | Blue

I bought this flip phone as a punishment for my teenage daughter because her grades were not good. I didn't want her to be unable to get ahold of me while she was grounded from her smartphone, so I got her this flip phone. She hated not having her beloved smartphone so much that she brought her grades up just to get it back. I set out to find the simplest, most durable phone for my girl while she improved her grades and I found just that. It does have texting features, but you really have to work for the messages (MDC). The screen size is not the biggest, you can lock the phone, and it has internet (it's not the most convenient -which should be fine if you don’t plan to use internet much on your phone). If you're looking to buy this phone for its simplicity, then you've found the one. I love that I can just pop her SIM card in there anytime she's grounded or I feel like she's spending too much time on her phone. Such a basic phone! But it did exactly what I wanted it to… I should also mention the color we picked was pretty accurate. Oh! And I guess I should also mention that my daughter did get sick of the flip phone and worked very hard to earn her phone back! Lol

Ok let's start with the hardware. When it comes to the construction quality of the Nokia 2780, it's SUPER cheap. We know the plastic that HMD started using some time ago, when moving from the 2720 to the 2760, was a downgrade. However, when I picked up my new 2780, it fell even below my already low expectations. The lid is TERRIBLY wobbly. In fact, you can close it and it will still wobble from side to side, making you feel as if at some point it will tear apart from the rest of the body. Also, the USB-C port only works one way, defeating the whole purpose of USB type C. Sometimes you just forget about this, plug the cable, and then realize after a few hours that your phone is dead because you didn't plug the cable "the right way". Regarding the software, it's totally amateur stuff. Even for the most BASIC stuff. I will list all my current issues with this phone, in no particular order: 1. The clock app is buggy AS HELL. Sometimes a scheduled alarm won't go off at all. Sometimes you disable or even delete the alarms and they will still sound. I've even seen something as weird as two or 10 alarms ringing at the same time -- imagine the alarm going off with some sort of insufferable and schizoid "echo" that doesn't stop, even after pressing the corresponding buttons over and over again. 2. The WiFi connection drops regularly (every 10 minutes or so). Not sure if this is on the software or hardware side though. 3. This one is particularly BIZARRE -- from time to time, the big clock on the main screen will show a different time from the small one on the top left corner. You have to way several seconds before seeing the right time. What the heck? 4. The contacts app is SUPER slow. For instance, I have set it up so it displays my contacts by last name. After you open it, you have to wait between 2-3 seconds for it to rearrange itself. (My list is not even over 100 contacts btw.) 5. It lacks a Spanish dictionary, despite advertising otherwise. Supposedly, the device comes with predictive keyboard for both English and Spanish. Yet when you choose Spanish, there is no dictionary, and despite the fact that you chose said language, it will change to English when texting. 6. Sometimes the phone will restart randomly after closing the lid. In general, there are several "details" around the whole system that look and feel unfinished or WAY too buggy, even for casual or basic use. I mean, if you can't even use this phone as an alarm, it doesn't make any sense. Well. At least the Nokia 2780 will make and receive calls. I wouldn't recommend this phone. There are better alternatives in a similar price range when it comes to feature or "dumb" phones!

This is my second Nokia 2780 Flip, I originally bought my first one directly from HMD website, unlocked. My reasons for purchasing a "dumb phone" were to overcome my screen addiction, have better mental health, and feel more present, detached from a digital world that is constantly pulling you out of your life and into the device. It works great, Google Maps function is simple to use and allows you to navigate the map in real time if you'd like to travel and look at the map to make sure you are going the right way in real time. Photos feel nostalgic and are enjoyable to take. Simple games in case you get bored or catch the intrigue of a young child that has never seen a flip phone before. My first Nokia 2780 Flip lasted one year, I suspect due to how much I allowed it to fall on the floor. A "No command" screen started showing up and did not allow me to reboot. I ordered a phone case for this 2nd one that I ordered directly from Amazon. Would have liked the red color, but it's double the price at the moment on Amazon and I needed a phone urgently after my first phone broke down. I have tried another dumb phone, the Nokia 3210 Dual Sim, which is great to use and also enjoyable, but does not have GPS features, which makes it less convenient for my everyday use.

Bought this for an older relative because it was simpler than a smartphone. And as I started playing with it myself, I was really impressed at how much it does. Wifi, bluetooth, gps. Honestly decent camera (for well lit outdoor shots anyway). Also great physical build quality, the buttons and 'flip' action feel nice. And T9 texting brings back memories. There are two main downsides. First, the battery life is way way shorter than I thought. The nokia spec sheet says 18 days of standby time, so I figured even with heavy use I'd get multiple days out of it. Nope, honestly worse than a normal smartphone. Starting with a full charge in the morning, it needs a charge before dinner. And it's because of all those features. Do you use wifi? bluetooth? gps? Those turn that 18 day battery life into 6 hours. Also I didn't realize how much of a battery killer LTE calling is. in the US, the 3G networks have been shut down, so this phone has to use LTE calling, but it uses way more power than a 3G voice call. LTE talk time is only about 3 hours to go from full battery to empty. The second downside is the level of polish. This phone has so much potential, and feels like it's almost there, but not quite. No show stopping bugs, but more than I thought I would find on a dumb phone. Hopefully those get worked out in a software update but I kind of doubt they'll push out an update to existing phones. To recommend this phone (or not), really depends what you're looking for. If you're looking for a phone with a physical keypad, simple calling and texting, and can still connect to your car to make bluetooth calls. It's great. "How do I make a phone call"...you just the number in the keypad. "how do I answer a phone call"....you open the phone. These things can be surprisingly unclear on a new smartphone, so getting back to basic physical controls greatly simplifies the basics. The programmable button to call a specific contact is also a great feature for an older user. If you're more of a power user this phone can still be fun but you're going to hate the battery life. I enjoyed tinkering with it for a few days, but it would be hard for me to use this as a daily driver.

For the last six months, I've been using a Nokia 2720 V as my daily driver. I was intrigued with the idea of the 2780 for three reasons: better group texting, a slightly better camera, and a hotspot. This phone is unlocked and works on mulitiple networks. I use Verizon and sure enough, it worked great. However, each carrier can determine which features are available, and which ones...are not. The hotspot appears to be disabled via Verizon. I'm aware of a work-around available online, but I don't want to mess with a work-around, I just want it to work. Strike one. The 5MP camera should be a clear upgrade from my 2MP camera. But it really wasn't. To be honest, 2MP, 5 MP - neither are getting used to take pictures of anything important. This one is a wash. I'll come back to the third point shortly. The phone itself felt, well, cheap. The plastic casing seemed like a toy you'd find at Five Below. My 2720 V came out in 2021 and it's much nicer, so I know Nokia can deliver. Because the plastic is low quality, the hinge suffers too. At this point, my confidence is shaken, and my 2720 V is looking at me, wondering why I gave up on it when it's clearly the better option. So after all of that, the fact that I have to perform one extra step to group text on the 2720 V seemed less important. To conclude, it's an OK phone. Three stars. I'm sending mine back, but if you want a decent feature phone with some Google tech, but not a full blown smartphone, check it out.

I got this as kind of a detox phone and I really like it!! It seems durable, it is easy to pop the back cover on and off to access the battery, SIM, and SD card reader, and it feels nice in the hand. The camera isn't really something you're gonna want to take all your pictures with but I took a picture and sent it to a friend and he mentioned how flip phone cameras have come a long way so I guess it's decent enough for quick pictures. The phone is fast enough. Doesn't hold a candle to my Galaxy S25 Ultra (of course not lol) but gets the job done. Texting is fine, call quality is great. I found a really nice podcast app (PodLP) to round out the music player and FM radio functions for entertainment. Snake is a ton of fun, too. I don't need to use Google Maps, browser, etc. but it's nice that they exist. A friend texted me a twitter link and I was able to load it up and it was fine. Google Maps worked correctly and quickly when I tested it but I have built-in nav in my car so I haven't had a legit use case for it. All in all, it's a dumbphone with smart enough features and enough entertainment apps to not feel a total void the way you might with something like a TCL Classic. Battery life is spectacular, build quality is good, the interface and KaiOS are super easy to learn and navigate, and it is good enough at everything to where you don't feel too bad ditching your smartphone.

This flip phone is exactly what an a teenager who is addicted to social media needs. It allows my child to make and receive phone calls, as well as to do basic texts. A simple call to T-Mobile customer service on her prepaid Sim card plan allowed me to shut the data off. It does have Wi-Fi so if your goal is to eliminate social media, you’re going to have to block this device on your router. I have Comcast and it allows me to Restrict Wi-Fi access based upon each device attached to the network. Don’t underestimate your child’s ability to find other Wi-Fi sources, but the operating system on this phone render it relatively useless. The phone can still access the Internet through an installed browser in the operating system, but it’s fairly rudimentary and , I suspect that it in effect eliminates the desire for social media since it’s so difficult to type out a sentence on a numeric keypad. So my recommendation is 1) buy this flip phone 2) get a T-Mobile, prepaid Sim card and pair it to your child’s cell phone number after you’ve ported the number to T-Mobile 3) select the $10 a month prepaid plan 4) call T-Mobile customer service and ask them to shut off the data on that phone number. They will give you our time and tell you that that isn’t an option, but it is an option and you just need to continue to insist on it and speak to a supervisor if they aren’t willing or able to do what you’re asking. 5) finally, block, access to Wi-Fi on your router for this device. If you do those five things, you may have a chance to have your child back and hopefully pull them away from the devastating draw of social media.

This isn't really a basic "feature" phone. KaiOS is a stripped down version of Android running on a little processor that isn't capable of keeping up with the demands of Android bloat. For example, open the phone, and in big numerals it will show you the time _that you last opened the phone_. It may take up to a minute to update and show the actual time. (You can train yourself you read the actual time on the tiny status bar.) Sending a text message? Type slowly because it won't keep up. (And good luck finding basic punctuation marks like the apostrophe or capitalizing a name in the middle of a sentence. And your preferences for which text typing mode you like are constantly being reset to bad defaults.) The UI is unnecessarily cumbersome. If you receive a spam text (aren't they all?), you're going to have to press a lot of buttons several times to delete it. I don't have a data plan because all I need is the occasional call and even rarer SMS message. But if this phone ever gets access to data for even a moment, it starts trying to update. And when that data is interrupted, your notifications will be spammed with a slew of error messages. And, sometimes, that leaves key apps, like your contact list, inaccessible. The beauty of Type C USB connectors is that you can insert them either way. However, if your charger and cable support PD (Power Delivery) and/or QC (Quick Charge), the phone will charge only when the cable is plugged in the "right" way. If you leave it overnight on a charger with the cable the wrong way around, you'll wake up to a dead battery. From what I've read, you have to go out of your way to design a Type C USB port that isn't symmetric. But why would you do that? (And the battery life is terrible compared to previous feature phones I've had. Putting Android under the hood may have been an expedient way to create KaiOS, but you can't throw that at a low power processor and expect it not to burn through the battery.) Oh, I almost forgot about Bluetooth. This phone fails to pair with my car. My car thinks the pairing is successful, but the phone does not. This phone does pair with my wife's car, but not mine. Every other phone I've used was able to pair with both cars. I don't have a great need for a cell phone (coverage at home is spotty at best), so I haven't gone looking for an alternative. Yesterday, however, the phone died, a just few days short of 10 months of very light usage. Outer screen won't light up. Inner screen is filled with random pixel values. If I call it, it doesn't even ring, so it's not _just_ a display failure. This device doesn't reach even the most minimal requirements of a cell phone. If Nokia still cared one iota about its brand name, it never would have authorized this disaster. It's actually worse that the Kazuna eTalk, which I wouldn't have imagined was possible. This is not fit to be called a phone.

No WhatsApp support ...

Ad says its universal to all carriers but we have not found it to be so. Will try to get advice from local telstra shop after the festive season when they are more likly to be helpful. Has been un useable . very disappointed.

Bought this for my mom but had to return because there’s no Whatsapp and Facebook app which we wanted to use to chat and data call her. Overall a very good phone for senior people but only for calls and texts.

The phone works with calls and texts but does not work with mobile data on EE. Why are you selling a phone on Amazon UK that is not compatible with UK networks?

Mi papá tiene 69 años, y desde hace años, solo sabe usar los celulares de "tapita". Con el pasar de los años ha sido muy difícil conseguir, siempre son celulares de marca zuum o algo por el estilo. Pero no duran ni 2 años. Como son equipos muy baratos, siempre se le compra uno nuevo que encontremos en el mercado. Cuando vimos este equipo y vimos que ya tenía tecnología 4G y llamadas VOLTE, o sea, un equipo con tecnología de un smartphone, no le pensamos. Teclado fácil de usar, buen sonido y una claridad de llamadas como nunca. Estamos muy felices, tanto que compramos 1 equipo adicional para reserva en algunos años. Lo usamos con TELCEL y sin problemas. No funciona para redes ALTAN.