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Looking at the official website trying to understand what's the value of this mobile phone over any cheap feature phone from Nokia: https://mudita.com/products/

Looking at the official website trying to understand what's the value of this mobile phone over any cheap feature phone from Nokia: https://mudita.com/products/pure/ https://mudita.com/products/pure/. The device has an e-ink display and claims to have a very good speaker. The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app. I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature phone, given that they are way cheaper.

Gualdrapo 5y ago
> The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app. > I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature phone At uni we had a teacher that used to brag telling the story about how he bought his phone. Allegedly he went into the store and asked about the most basic phone. No, not the cheapest phone, but the basic. Because he didn't needed cameras and apps and stuff. I'm fairly positive that's the kind of people this phone is targeted at.
crooked-v 5y ago
The E-ink display might be good for battery life... but if you're not obsessively using your battery life is going to be much better in the first place, since the majority of the battery drain on modern phones is the screen.
jumelles 5y ago
The focus on radiation is... strange. It even shows up under the SIM card section: "Although we would have liked to only use 2G, the least harmful radio frequency, it is currently being phased out around the world. We spent a good amount of time trying to find a flexible, modern and global GSM module, which could be used for travelling anywhere in the world. With the user’s health in mind, Pure always chooses the lowest spectrum available to limit radiation."
- gpas 5y ago
  It's revealing of what segment of the market they are targeting...
- hammyhavoc 5y ago
  Anti-vax no-new-normal types most likely.
FridayoLeary 5y ago
Modern Nokias are user hostile. (edit: try one out)
- hammyhavoc 5y ago
  Using one. Care to elaborate?
  - FridayoLeary 5y ago
    Try use predictive texting
    - hammyhavoc 5y ago
      I never use it as any kind of predictive writing tool tends to be terrible for technical subjects on any device.
- ris 5y ago
  Amen. Nokia appeared to be sending the right signals by releasing a "new" 3310, but I had to return mine as I couldn't even find an easy-to-access "silent" mode - that's how barren of features they now are. Try finding one with a copy and paste feature. No ability to back up texts, extremely small memory for number of texts, some appalling user flows.. it's like it's been designed by someone who has never used a phone from before 2010 and is having to invent it all again. My theory is this is because they know their core market now is old people and other "basic users" who will never bother looking for these features.

Gualdrapo 5y ago

> The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app. > I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature phone At uni we had a teacher that used to brag telling the story about how he bought his phone. Allegedly he went into the store and asked about the most basic phone. No, not the cheapest phone, but the basic. Because he didn't needed cameras and apps and stuff. I'm fairly positive that's the kind of people this phone is targeted at.

crooked-v 5y ago

The E-ink display might be good for battery life... but if you're not obsessively using your battery life is going to be much better in the first place, since the majority of the battery drain on modern phones is the screen.

jumelles 5y ago

The focus on radiation is... strange. It even shows up under the SIM card section: "Although we would have liked to only use 2G, the least harmful radio frequency, it is currently being phased out around the world. We spent a good amount of time trying to find a flexible, modern and global GSM module, which could be used for travelling anywhere in the world. With the user’s health in mind, Pure always chooses the lowest spectrum available to limit radiation."

gpas 5y ago
It's revealing of what segment of the market they are targeting...
hammyhavoc 5y ago
Anti-vax no-new-normal types most likely.

FridayoLeary 5y ago

Modern Nokias are user hostile. (edit: try one out)

hammyhavoc 5y ago
Using one. Care to elaborate?
- FridayoLeary 5y ago
  Try use predictive texting
  - hammyhavoc 5y ago
    I never use it as any kind of predictive writing tool tends to be terrible for technical subjects on any device.
ris 5y ago
Amen. Nokia appeared to be sending the right signals by releasing a "new" 3310, but I had to return mine as I couldn't even find an easy-to-access "silent" mode - that's how barren of features they now are. Try finding one with a copy and paste feature. No ability to back up texts, extremely small memory for number of texts, some appalling user flows.. it's like it's been designed by someone who has never used a phone from before 2010 and is having to invent it all again. My theory is this is because they know their core market now is old people and other "basic users" who will never bother looking for these features.