Titan Pocket, Small QWERTY Smartphone Android 11 Unlocked NFC Smart Phone (Support T-Mobile & Verizon only)

I have no idea why manufacturers think everyone wants the same giant, all-touchscreen, time-sucking smartphone. It took an unreasonably long time to find a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, but now that I've found it, it is PERFECT. I absolutely love the titan pocket. It's the perfect size, rugged, durable, with great features. It works perfectly for me on T-Mobile and has every feature that one needs in a phone. Personally, I do NOT want social media on any phone, but you of course have the option to download those apps if you want them. I've had all physical QWERTY phones my entire life, and only switched to this smartphone because they quit service to my blackberry (despite the fact that it was still in pretty perfect condition, mms and calls started failing). It IS nice having Spotify, maps, uber, and other "necessary" apps available. It is simple and intuitive to use. I love that a long press of the red (programmable) key on the side turns on the flashlight and a short press turns on the keyboard backlight. AirPods connect with no problem, sound is good, battery is long-lasting, and of course, the keyboard is great. I hope that this phone continues being made for ever!

This seems like a great phone that I could use as a dumbed down smartphone (WhatsApp, GPS but no Browser... I need my life back). It said it works with Verizon and I got the phone, threw in my SIM card, jumped on a wireless network, spent hours configuring the phone with all the software I need. Jumped off the wireless network and nothing worked. The "data" portion is not compatible with Verizon wireless. This is a let down and a waste of time. But I can make a phone call. That part still works. Just nothing else. I feel bad for this manufacturer because they need to upgrade the phone's hardware to 4G or 5G. This is a 3G phone and Verizon must have phased that out.

The Unihertz Titan Pocket is like a modern day Blackberry Q10 or a Blackberry Classic or maybe more a combination of the two. This phone combines the style, size and feel of my Blackberry Q10 (in a beefier but not larger package) paired with a modern Android 11 operating system. It literally gives me the revival of my Q10 with a very good keyboard and apps that just work and when I say apps that work so far that has been pretty much without compromise. You will read reviews that will warn you off from the small screen and the square display but I've not found that to be much of a compromise. For some apps, such as Netflix or Prime Video, this is not the phone that will give you the best experience (of course) but they certainly still work but there are so many other options to use those services on other better devices than a phone, including our laptops and TVs, I just don't find this much of a compromise.For the reported downsides of a number of the other reviews here for WiFi drop out or Bluetooth disconnect I've experienced none of that. Everything works well. As others have said here, the build quality in terms of being a sturdy phone is quite nice. The phone offers some small improvement over the original Passport style Titan by getting rid of the recessed camera and screen sensors which always needed cleaning by bringing those flush to the face of the phone, the angles of the phone are somewhat nicer and although the keyboard is less roomy than it's bigger brother (so I'm a bit slower in my typing) it still manages to allow me to type quite fluidly with an absolutely wonderful keypress feedback (as good as my key2 and a bit better than my Q10). The scrolling via the keyboard is smoother than that the original Titan and the keyboard is wonderfully backlit. The ability to easily program every key to multiple apps and functions keeps your fingers off the screen and eliminates working your way through screen menus, everything is available from a key press. As for Phone call quality, that is good and the speaker for phone calls is clear and loud, battery life is great due to the small display.Don't buy this phone if you are NOT looking for a small phone that fits easily in your pocket and can be used one handed as it offers that as a throwback feature with wonderful balance and feel in your hand, to a time before all phones became large flat oversized glass slabs. If you are looking to buy a phone for the camera forget it, this is not your phone. Cameras are functional no more.Having used the larger Unihertz Titan for almost 3 years and never finding the square display to be problematic for apps i still was quite suspensions that this screen (3.1) would just be too small or problematic and that fear kept me from trying this phone for a long time but for me that has not been problematic at all.Lastly I would say that the Android 11 version of software provided by Unihertz has the leastbloatware of any phone I've used with many wellthroughout features like the ability to assign every app to function in landscape or portrait or even settings for force portrait or forced landscape. Also, there a nice set of software tools (apps) in their included toolbox. It's a well priced phone that gives good value but targeted for a small user audience that might appreciate some of the features described here.

I've always preferred keyboard phones because the screen keyboards don't always correctly pick up my touches and/or identify the letting I'm trying to choose. I also wanted a much smaller phone that is easier to carry. This one was the closest I could find.Only Verizon service is available where we live. It does work with Verizon if you do what is suggested, which is to activate the phone with an already activated sim card. (If you don't have one, the verizon store may or may not help you. The local one pretended they didn't have any, but I know other people who were successful at other stores). However, once the phone is activated, it takes a day for it to correctly identify the carrier and work; prior to that mine didn't work at all, and then worked even though it said I was on Sprint. After that it was fine.It is quite heavy, with a nice build feel. The keys are easy to press and tactile. I get the same number of bars as much more expensive phones.A few caveats:1. I can't receive text images. I read that using another text app will work, but I tried 5 of them and none do. Sending images is just fine, people get them.2. the screen is a different orientation than most phones, so every so often a website will be difficult to see without a lot of scrolling, and there are a few times when I could not enter information (like a password) because the input area is blocked by the screen keyboard symbol popup. A few symbols are in a single row that shows on the screen with the alpha keyboard, but if you need others, that can be an issue.3. When texting, it keeps giving suggestions on the word. I never look at the screen while entering, so now and again I've typed something and when I look up the phone has 'corrected' what I wrote (incorrectly). I can't find out how to turn off this 'feature.' It may be an android setting that I just can't find.4. As with most phones, it shows/displays the android settings differently, so if you are looking on the web for suggestions on how to do X, and it says to do a,b,c in the settings, those settings are often not where they say they are. I know that the android menu path is different for Samsung and LG, but these seem to require even more searching.5. It does not have Qi charging.All in all I'm happy with it.

I bought this phone knowing it was a risk. I am on Verizon and have heard mixed reviews as to whether or not I would even be able to use this phone with this carrier. I've only had it a few days, but so far I have no complaints. No issues receiving texts, emails, etc. I love the QWERTY keyboard (of course...it's the main reason I got it). The screen is small and the resolution isn't great but honestly that's not a problem for me - I don't plan to watch videos on this phone anyway. The speaker is so much better than my last phone (Pixel), the battery life is good, it fits in my small hands unlike most new smartphones these days...and yes the camera sucks.It's not a phone for people who spend hours on social media or YouTube. It's not a phone for people who really want a tablet that makes phone calls. It's not a phone for people who play a lot of mobile games. It's a phone for folks who like a physical keyboard and who want to use their phone for texts, calls and emails. And I love it.

Verizon does not officially support this phone. It may be "compatible," but the only way to get it working on the Verizon network (and what Unihertz support tells you to do) is to spoof the IMEI, which by the way is illegal in the US and many other countries. No, simply activating the SIM on another device will not work.Obviously it goes without saying but you shouldn't be selling a phone and advertising it to be "compatible with Verizon" if you're going to make your customers break the law in order to get it to work as advertised.It's a shame too because the phone is fine otherwise; it's solidly constructed, has a decent battery life and the PKB works really well. They just really need to have an actual relationship with cell providers instead of just telling your customers to spoof the IMEI to get it working.

An extra inch of screen real estate (and some security updates), that's all I'm asking for. When I emailed, a Unihertz customer relations person replied that they actually have a new Titan in development which may answer some of the issues people have with these phones. I've briefly owned a Titan Slim, and I bought this Titan Pocket as a work phone. Between the two, this is the marginally better implementation, but they both struggle to stick the landing on form factor for different reasons.The Titan Slim (read: the Titan 'narrow') puts an expected aspect-ratio screen on top of a keyboard that has been unnecessarily squeezed to accommodate the unnecessarily narrow width of said screen. As a result, it is practically impossible to use the phone without bumping the Home key, which is capacitive, and will send a Home or Google Assistant command regardless whether you pressed it with any force or intention. This alone is the reason I sold my Titan Slim: I literally could not use it without bumping my way out of the things I was typing. The keyboard which makes the phone desirable is at odds with the compromises applied to it to fit this funny form factor.By comparison, the Titan Pocket, which predates the Slim, has a screen that is a perfectly acceptable width, over a keyboard that is a perfectly acceptable form factor...but is for some reason just too short. It breaks so many applications, and things are made worse because some frequently-used symbols which do not fit on the physical keyboard are made available with a little pop-up soft keyboard on the screen. So now, of your too-short screen, you're losing an additional 15% or whatever to this soft keyboard.Unihertz is a boutique phone company making interesting hardware they know will not see mass adoption, and so they are not sinking a lot of money into them. But still, I'd love to see a 'flagship' Unihertz phone. Something worth $800 or more. Give us the newest Android, with three years of guaranteed updates, and a screen that is, if not as tall as that found on many modern flagships, at least tall enough to render the basic contents of all modern app and webapp design. I will gladly fork over the money for it.As for the Pocket, it's a good fit for digital minimalists, or would-be digital minimalists who need the hardware to act as a constraint when their willpower cannot stop them from getting carried away by their devices. Having a device on which trying to do anything fun is painful or impossible is a great way to effect digital minimalism in one's life. Otherwise, it's a reasonable fit for someone who will use it primarily for texting and calling, as we did back in the Before Times. It sort of sucks at phone calls, but it is usable, and texting is delightful.

This is by far the worst phone I've ever had or even used. As a smartphone it's all but unusable. The internet hardly works, when it does work it cuts out, screen pop-ups take up the whole screen and are so big the x is off the page, the wifi drops out, my location is lost constantly, the NFC card doesn't work anymore. I could keep going.Luckily, I thought, I bought this phone to wean off smartphones so if it's a bad smartphone so what? Turns out it's a bad phone phone. My calls drop constantly, on the extremely rare occasion I have a call that doesn't drop one or both sides of the audio cut out, IF (and that's a big if) my texts send they almost always send as duplicates, I haven't received numerous texts, the only notifications that work semi-consistently (notice I didn't say consistently) are my text notifications (for the select few that are actually received), despite having all notifications turned on I don't receive any notifications other than most of my texts and calls, etc., etc.BUT this phone has one saving grace: it has a keyboard! Because it's for some reason the only phone on the market with a keyboard everything else is manageable right? Maybe if the keyboard worked properly, but unfortunately it doesn't. It constantly doesn't type letters I've pressed, it will apply symbols or caps to keys at random, the buttons are extremely stiff and hard to type with, the autocorrect program (it's a physical keyboard so why do you even need that?) is by far the worst I've seen, if you download an alternative keyboard to fix the autocorrect issues (which you can't disable otherwise) multiple buttons stop working, the on-screen keyboard (why is there an on-screen keyboard?!) takes up the entire screen, the keyboard scroll function is so dysfunctional I find numerous message chains, files, song, etc. deleted/archived because the keyboard thought I scrolled over something faster than the human finger moves, when you actually try to use the keyboard scroll it barely moves the screen until you stop touching it and then it scrolls to the bottom of the page (seriously just don't have that feature if you can't make the 10 year old technology work properly).Honestly, this is just the start of how astonishingly terrible this phone is. Whatever you do, do not waste any amount of money on this "phone." Even if you're like me and absolutely despise not having a physical keyboard in an age that's supposed to be the most technologically advanced of human civilisation, you'd be far better off not having a phone period. This product is so unbelievably terrible and downright insane it needs to be banned until an even semi-usable version exists.

Scopro solo a fine 2024 l'esistenza di questi smartphone Unihertz, nello specifico la linea Titan, e me ne dispiace molto: l'avessi scoperto prima, avrei preso questo Titan Pocket quando fu lanciato sul mercato. L'ho preso per "scappare" dalle continue distrazioni degli smartphone con display enormi e 16:9 - un tempo, i cellulari erano piccoli ed ergonomici, oggi cosa è cambiato?Lo uso da quasi una settimana e non ho intenzione di tornare indietro perché:la tastiera QWERTY è fantastica e molto comoda;la batteria dura due giorni pieni, un giorno e mezzo con un utilizzo intenso tra Whatsapp, Telegram, chiamate, e-mail, Spotify, Maps, Web e altre app mirate sulla produttività;la ricezione telefonica ed il Wi-Fi annientano certi smartphone di fascia alta odierni;è veramente "pocket", nel senso che in tasca ci sta benissimo, soprattutto nelle giacche;la qualità audio in chiamata (vivavoce e non) è ottima, non ho avuto alcun problema;l'audio purtroppo è mono, ma almeno il volume è molto alto, la qualità non è granché ma è comunque promosso;i sensori di luminosità, prossimità ed impronta sono perfetti;il display da 3.1 pollici è l'arma a doppio taglio: da un lato, ottimo per distrarsi meno e avere compattezza, dall'altro, purtroppo Android (e con esso anche alcune app) non è ottimizzato per girare con display così piccoli, per cui alcune schermate e alcune scritte possono essere troppo piccole - se avesse avuto un display da 3.4 o 3.6 pollici sarebbe stato PERFETTO;non è un "cameraphone" (prendete una macchina fotografica se volete scattare delle foto) ma i QR-code e i documenti li legge tranquillamente;il LED di notifica è sempre un "must";il design rende molto di più dal vivo e il "touch and feel" è bellissimo;si, è pesante ma ci si dimentica del peso (non dimentichiamo che è un rugged-phone);ha il jack per le cuffie, espansione di memoria con SD e infrarossi;E i difetti?Ci sono, e spero che Unihertz non si addormenti perché:lo smartphone non riceve patch di sicurezza da Settembre 2022 e ha Android 11............;il volume delle notifiche NON è separato dal volume delle chiamate (ma questa è colpa di Android 11);bisogna esplorare bene le impostazioni da soli per capire come sfruttare al meglio le sue funzionalità;avrei preferito più azioni personalizzabili con il tasto laterale "PTT";della serie Titan sono disponibili solo tre modelli.Conclusioni:fateci l'abitudine e non lo mollate mai.PS:se premete il tasto di accensione + tasto del volume su in contemporanea con display acceso, il telefono entra in modalità "Vibrazione".

I got it yesterday. The phone is perfect. Very good system and perfect size. The titan was too big and the camara was terrible. But the titan pocket is just perfect

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Nach 10 tagen glaube ich schon über das gerät urteilen zu können.Es ist etwas kleiner und man muss halt mehr scrollen. Passt aber dafür besser in die Hosentasche. Ich habe ein paar software-änderungen vorgenommen, inclusive meiner BlackBerry apps. Tastatur war ein bischen anders, habe mich aber mitlerweile gut dran gewöhnt und ist vom Druckpunkt und der größe eher dem BlackBerry classic gleich.Da ich viel Musik über Amazon in Hd höre, habe ich den audio-codec aptx Hd noch freigeschaltet. Ldac ist eh schon original dabei aber für prime music klingt aptx Hd einfach kraftvoller. Die Lautstärke ist etwas geringer als beim key2 aber absolut ausreichend mit fiio lg-bt2 neckband mit shure se535 inear.Die tasten alt und shift lassen sich in den tiefen der Einstellungen vertauschen, dass wie gewohnt die alt-taste auf der linken seite ist. Was ich aber vermisse ist das feststellen der alt_taste um z. b. Eine Zahlenfolge zu schreiben.Das einzig wirklich schlechte ist die Kamera. Selbst für einen Schnappschuss ab und zu absolut nicht zu gebrauchen, und als ehemaliger BlackBerry Nutzer sind die Ansprüche in diesem Segment eh schon recht weit unten angesiedelt...Alles in allem ein würdiger Nachfolger für den geringen preis. Eigentlich hatte ich gesagt, dass dies nur eine vorübergehende Lösung sein wird bis es vielleicht ein key3 gibt, aber ich denke das dies nicht nötig ist!Die akkulaufzeit ist auch sehr gut. Da ich sehr viel online Musik höre hatte mein key2 (mit neuem Akku) von 7 Uhr bis ca.16 Uhr gehalten, das Titan Pocket locker bis 22Uhr mit noch 40% und einer Restlaufzeit bis 6 Uhr angegeben.Ich kann das gerät wirklich nur empfehlen!Kleines Update: leider funktionieren einige Apps nur im mini-modus und andere, wie z.B. Bybit (trading-app) sind auf dem Gerät überhaupt nicht zu nutzen. Sehr schade, eigentlich wirklich ein Gerät mit Potential, aber das war dann doch das Knock-out. Habe mir nun wieder ein überteuertes gebrauchtes key2 zugelegt.

Years ago, I owned a Nokia N97, and then a Motorola Milestone (called the Motorola Droid in the US). I love keyboard phones because I'm very used to typing on computer keyboards, and I've never got used to touchscreen keyboards. I ended up moving to an iPhone because of problems I had with Android at the time, but I really missed having a keyboard, and I knew if I were going to buy another Android device, it would be one with a keyboard. After all, Android's biggest selling point is that you can buy the device you want.It was incredibly difficult to find a phone with a keyboard. I actually have a Fxtec Pro1 X pre-ordered, but it's been delayed various times, so I wanted something in the meantime while I waited for it.I was thinking about getting a BlackBerry Key2, but it no longer receives Android updates. So I ended up finding the Titan Pocket as an alternative, and was surprised to see that I could just buy it on Amazon and get it delivered the next day. It feels like well-built, and seems like it would withstand some drops. The keyboard took some time to get used to, it's a bit small for my liking, however I've got used to it now, and I can type fairly quickly on it.The screen is good quality, although it would've been nicer if it was OLED. It's a small screen due to the form factor, but that doesn't bother me. Some apps may not display well on this screen size, however I have only had this issue with a couple of apps and the phone has a solution to this problem by allowing you to switch to a "portrait" mode with a gesture.The phone is fast enough for my liking, I haven't tried any games, but that's not why I bought it.The biggest drawback to this phone would be the camera, however this is in relative terms to the current state of smartphone cameras. For me personally, it works well enough in good light, but if photography is a big thing for you, I wouldn't recommend this phone.The keyboard can also be used for app shortcuts, and there's also a red button on the side which can also be programmed for some kind of shortcut. The phone has a lot of utility apps built-in, which is a nice touch.The phone has a headphone jack, which apparently is now considered a feature, but even more interesting is that the phone has an infrared emitter, so you can control any device that would usually be controlled via an infrared remote, such as a television or sound bar. It's a niche feature, but I find it useful.I hadn't heard of Unihertz before, and I probably wouldn't have heard about them if they hadn't made a phone with a keyboard, but they seem to make good quality phones and are a brand which I will keep my eye on.And finally, the price point. Many phones these days range from £500 to over a grand! This phone is inexpensive in comparison.I would recommend this phone to anyone looking for a BlackBerry form factor or even just a phone with a keyboard, providing you don't mind a subpar camera.