Cat S22 Flip (16GB) 2.8″ Touchscreen, Android 11, IP68 Water Resistant, 4G LTE GSM (T-Mobile Unlocked for MetroPCS, Global) (Black)

Capable and rugged
It is an excellent phone for its intended usage. As long as one doesn’t expect smartphone capability, this is a good choice for work or outdoors phone. It is sturdy, elements proof, and nearly indestructible. Since it’s Android, one can install most apps, and for apps not available from the Play store, grab an APK from somewhere and install. Viber and Garmin Connect were installed this way. Increase smallest width under developer options to prevent overlapping buttons and increase font size for readability.It is bulky and heavy. It has a lot of bloatware. Uninstall bloat if you can, disable if you cannot. It has limited RAM and storage, so essential apps only. Don’t format the SD card as internal storage, it will fail you and you will lose data. Use your card as portable storage and be happy. Battery life is so-so, but it can last nearly 2 days with my usage pattern. It’s an end of the line product, don’t expect updates.

Great Potential
I just want to make it clear that I purchased this phone because I’ve become completely disenchanted with modern technology, as well as humanity’s inability to take their faces out of their devices, including my own. I see smartphone addiction as a cancer upon the human condition and am actively seeking phones that allow for a healthier lifestyle. Phones that serve the most basic functions of a phone with as little to no distractions as possible. Trust me, I’m not the only one. There is a rapidly growing want among people for simplicity, for all the noise to leave their daily lives. We’re tired of being fed a constant stream of garbage through our devices and want to only be reachable by those who we know and love or those we work with. My entire review will be from this perspective.Let’s start with the things I don’t like. First of all, this thing is bulky. It very much reminds me of an old school RAZR V3 from the overall shape of the phone and the keyboard is also reminiscent. However, it’s about twice as thick, if not more, than the old Razr. Luckily for me, that’s been more noticeable in the hand than in the pocket, and I don’t mind a thicker phone to hold. I’m sure someone with smaller hands than a 6 foot tall American man or who wears skin tight pants would completely disagree. Would I like the phone to be closer in size to the Razr? Absolutely. Making this thing thinner would be most welcomed.Secondly, let’s talk about the PTT button on the side. This button is probably the number one or two worst part about this phone. Unless you have a buddy with the same phone, running the same PTT app, this button is just about worthless. If not using a PTT app, it’s only good for one thing and that’s assigning apps to the button for quick launch for either two clicks of the button or one long press of the button. However, if you’re like me and purchasing this thing to abandon smartphones and the always online lifestyle cold turkey and forever, the button is absolutely worthless. I shouldn’t say absolutely worthless, as it will be in your way for every phone call and you will hate the way it takes up hand grip room on the phone, as I do. My message to CAT would be either abandon this design idea or make two variations of this phone, one for construction and one for everyone else.Second to last, it has too many smart features for my purposes. As I mentioned in the opening, I want a phone. I want it to call, to text, and to hold a charge for a week plus. That’s it. I don’t want a constant internet connection, no endless apps and scrolling, no games, no Facebook, no Google, I want to call and text. This phone is essentially a smartphone that folds. No kidding whatsoever. Just about every app you can imagine, you can download on this phone. The good news is you can either delete or disable every single app on the phone, which is a HUGE deal for people like me, as this ability is rare. Usually, if you buy a phone cluttered with worthless apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, you can’t get rid of them. You can here! Albeit it’s an android and Google you can’t get rid of, but you can disable every Google related app that won’t crash you operating system, which is good. However, I still don’t even want that much connectivity. In my perfect world, my phone can call, text, and maybe have Bluetooth for hands free calling. I literally want nothing else. To even think about purchasing a phone with smart features makes me feel dirty at this point.Finally, there’s the texting. Just MY GOD. This phone has fantastic call quality, make no mistake. But the texting… Eh. Let me just describe a senario for you. You try to respond to a text from a loved one. You pull it up, read it, click in the message box to reply and start typing. WAIT! There’s just a jumbled mess where you message should be. Oh, I’m supposed to use the virtual keyboard? But, I don’t like that. Can I switch to basic Abc texting or T9? Yes, you can, if you go into the settings and change your keyboard from the onscreen one to one called Kika preinstalled on the phone. Now, when you go to create your response, the keyboard will default to a backwards-ass version of T9, which I never cared for myself, but it may be your favorite. Who knows. But I prefer Abc because I learned to do it the long way and I’m incredibly fast & accurate at it, even today. Kika can change to Abc texting if you push the pound button. It will switch between T9, Abc, and abc texting. However, and this is a big however, Kika will default right back to T9 after EACH message, making you come back and push pound over and over and over again. As far as I can tell there’s no default you can set for this and it’s endlessly annoying. Now, if you prefer the onscreen keyboard or T9, no problem for you. But it’s a small problem, that’s been big for me and I’m sure others as well. I ended up just getting used to T9 over the virtual keyboard, which is awful, but still better than the virtual keyboard. However, I’ve noticed when typing becomes less convenient that I call people more and compose more intentional & meaningful messages. So, this inconvenience has really felt like a blessing.The biggest complaints from other reviewers were battery life, size, and a few others complained about the expandable memory. First of all, the battery life is great if you turn off the crap and use it as a phone for calling and texting. If someone is complaining about the battery, I assume they are using this thing like a smartphone. Secondly, it’s size won’t change. It’s thick when it’s folded up but isn’t bad really when opened. It’s also very long when opened and will look funny next to your face if you aren’t tall with a big head, like MUAH. I do hope they make the next version thinner, however. Lastly, the expandable memory. I have no idea how well it works, as I’ve not tried installing more memory. The only reason I would expand would be for music, which I’ve just turned my old Samsung Note 20 into an mp3 player. So, I have zero use for expanding the memory.What do I love about it?Battery life. When you delete or disable every possible unnecessary app, turn off WiFi, bluetooth, and mobile data & simply use this thing as a phone, the battery life will last for days. I mean like the entire work week, not a day and a half. If you have even just mobile data on, the battery life is absolutely butchered down to a couple of days, maybe three. With WiFi and mobile data, your looking at smart phone battery life numbers. But I keep all the unnecessary off and I get a solid 5 days out of it, which is great.I love the grippy feel of the phone. It feels made to last and of high quality. The button layout is fantastic and like I mentioned, will remind you of the Razr V3. The buttons click hard and feel sturdy and tactile.All apps can either be deleted or disabled, which I already went over but worth reiterating.Call quality is fantastic. Probably louder and more clear than my old Samsung Note 20.Most importantly, this phone allows me to shut out the outside world, allowing only those I want to contact me to contact me. No constant news articles or advertisements or social agendas being force-fed, and other bull nobody cares about. Also, no more terribly unhealthy habits from myself, such as constantly scrolling apps, shutting out the outside world, buying crap online that I don’t need, being in a constant state of being irritable, and so many other behaviors that were spawned from being addicted to smartphones.I live a much fuller life without a smartphone and am absolutely positive that smartphones are ruining peoples’ lives in mass number.

Comparato per mio figlio e poi per mio suocero, questo reso perché per lui lo smartphone non è la cosa ideale, è un telefono ottimo. Unica pecca il sistema in inglesexnon modificabile se non in spagnolo in quanto il telefono è sbloccato ma brandizzato TMobile. Per mio figlio ho scelto una sim very mobile e funziona tutto internet 4g ore compreso senza dover configurare niente. Poi installato whatsapp, classe viva, tidal per la musica, Shazam e tutto funziona perfettamente. Ovviamente non ha android auto essendo la versione go del sistema ma so connette il bluetooth alla radio e il suono è si buona qualità anche se un po’.basao come volume. Qualità delle telefonia eccellentea problemi. Ah scaricata la tastiera T9 con la apposita app e selezionata nel correttore la lingua italiana e mio figli iscrive velocissimo usando la tastiera fisica. Per me un ottimo telefono per chi lo usa prevalentemente per telefonare e ascoltare musica, anche la messaggistica è ok, ovviamente video e giochi guardare altro, inoltre è robustissimo e il piccolo schermo sulla shele fa la sua funzione. A questo prezzo se serve in telefono che possa fare anche altro è il migliore

Ich habe wirklich lange überlegt welches Handy auf meine Ansprüche des Lebens angepasst ist und ich freue mich, dass das Handy bereits am Freitag geliefert wurde.Alles funktioniert einwandfrei. Das Handy funktioniert mit SIM-Karte eigener Wahl und auch eine Menüführung in Deutsch ist verfügbar. Eine separate Speicherkarte war im Lieferumfang nicht vorhanden. Mit einer Speicherweiterung von 128GB ist genügend Speicherplatz für Google Apps auf dem Handy verfügbar. Der Akku ist wechselbar und hat ordentlich Ausdauer. Bisher laufen alle Installationen flüssig, beide Tastaturen sind nutzbar. Ich empfehle dieses Handy gerne weiter, das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis hat mich angenehm überrascht. Alles in Einem:”Ein gutes Klapphandy!”*****Update*****Seit 22.04.2024 ca.13h hat das Handy kein Signal mehr zur SIM-Karte. Auch nach 4x auf Werkseinstellungen zurücksetzen und manueller Eingabe der Zugangsdaten meines Mobilfunkanbieters registriert sich die SIM-Karte nicht ins Mobilfunknetz, auch mit den Apps gab es Probleme.*****Anmerkung*****Der Vollständigkeit halber möchte ich hinzufügen, dass es bereits nach der Installation von Banking Apps, bei der Registrierung und Anmeldung zu Problemen kam, das Log-In Feld der Banking Apps war kaum mehr zu sehen und die Tastatur konnte ich zwar vom Touchscreen entfernen, somit aber auch das Feld, das ich normalerweise auf einem anderen Handy benutze – um die App mit meinen Zugangsdaten zu aktivieren.******Retoure ist bereits eingeleitet.******