NUU Mobile F4L LTE Flip Phone (Verizon Certified)

I am a 30 year old who quit smartphones a couple years ago and have never looked back. So when Verizon said they were going to shut down 3G basic phones, I went on the hunt for a well priced 4g basic phone. Of course they make 4G flippy’s cost 300$ to incentivize you to buy a smart phone.So I bought this one for the great price and simple features. The phone is cool; buttons are large enough to T9 text without looking at the keyboard.... but Verizon said they couldn’t activate it. I took it to a dealer store and a corporate store and neither said they could activate it.

Not sure why there are so many bad reviews. This is a solid flip phone. I've never heard of Nuu, but they aren't bad. Phone works great. Texting is easy. You can switch it to predictive T9. Camera is not the best, but to be expected since it's only 2mp. You don't buy this phone for the camera. Only had one call come in. Seemed to be pretty clear. Not hard to get around the menu. Just play around with it and you'll figure it out! I just love flipping it open closed. Reminds me of my high school days. 👍🏼

First off... I was trying to find an unlocked feature phone for under $100 that would run a Ting V1 SIM card (AKA Ting's MVNO spin of the Verizon network) in December 2020. This was the ONLY phone I could find that fit that bill. Hopefully that changes before long... but it's worth noting that it DID take the Ting V1 SIM and rocked it quite well. It would probably also work for StraightTalk and other Verizon resellers. This is no small thing...However... the feature phone was for my 72 y.o. mother. For that use case, it TOTALLY didn't work out. At all. The phone runs a cut-down version of Android rebranded "MyOS". My mom is a major league luddite and COULD NOT work out how to use the Contacts stored in her phone. (Didn't help that I was trying to do this with her socially distanced, but a few masked meetings and carefully written out instruction sheets *still* didn't help.) It was far too easy for her to accidentally start EDITING a contact instead of calling one, which was SUCH crap design. Further, while it is a version of Android, I couldn't [1] disable entire apps (as my mom DESPISES texting and always insists I disable voicemail, texting, AND data on every phone), [2] install new apps, [3] use low-level hacking facilities like 'adb', nor [4] rearrange the layout of the launcher screen. Getting my mother to get used to drilling down through the lock screen over to the Contacts app, down through the list, and down to the specific phone number was asking too much. Further, the phone allows you to interact with the notifications area. Let me repeat that... a flip phone with a top line notifications area. That is just a fail. That damned notifications area confused the crap out of Mom. And it's mapped right to one of the top two navigation buttons. 🤦‍♂️ Far better would have been if they'd mapped "Contacts" instead of "Notification". And I must say, in my own limited time with the phone, while I COULD use it, I really didn't enjoy the experience. The bottom line is that you really need to be quite familiar with Android already to use this phone effectively, but you're still going to need to adjust to all the very weird ways Android was then adapted to be the core of a feature phone. I'm going to try to replace this phone with a Jethro SC490; it's also based on Android, but the adaptation to a feature phone seems to have gone WAY better; unfortunately, I'll need to swap Mom to an Ting X3 SIM, which will crap out when she's visiting my brother out of town. But there was simply no way to get her a phone on a Ting V1 SIM that she could actually use. The old 3G phones are now dead; this could replace them, but only if you're willing to fight with it a little and already know what you're doing.So, the use case here is for somebody who wants an unlocked feature phone that can run on the Verizon network; may appreciate the ability to link to Google services, Facebook, and WhatsApp (all things I avoid); and would find a chopped down Android charming in spite of its quirks. I'm thinking this is for preteens on a short leash, middle aged people trying to reduce their screen addiction (but still want the ungodsly hell of Facebook?), or for anybody who really wants something without a touch screen that can still run Facebook or WhatsApp. It's an oddball device. It'll probably have more of a market when it finally drops under $30. Currently, at nearly $80 with tax, I honestly found it overpriced.

This phone is really rather shockingly clumsy. I've been a long term flip phone user (since college), and it has pushed me over to feeling like I need to transition to a smart phone. I use my phone primarily for texting and phone calls with secondary use as an alarm & camera. It is difficult to text on because of the poor interface, use of k-t9 (rather than the other t-9), delay in letters appearing, limited dictionary, inablility to control capitalization, and extremely limited symbols. It won't receive photos, group texts, or large texts, and one person has reported that it sends back every text they send me. The general phone is hard to use because of the delay in dialing, non standard buttons, lack of speed dial, and poor reception from if your mouth is further than a half inch from the speaker opening. The general shape is large, clumsy, and feels cheap. I would not recommend.

This item is beyond terrible, it has pre set buttons that can only do things like use certain apps, and once you press the button there is no way, no possible way, no way to even disable the annoying applications. This flip phone has done nothing but cause anger and frustration. This is most definitely not a premium alternative to a basic flip phone. It does not even boot faster than a far cheaper alcatel. Waste of money, and time trying to contact their help department.