Do you believe in minimalism?
I used the Nokia 800 tough with the KaiOS operating system for a year. It wasn’t a phone for a digital detox, but a smartphone substitute. For me, the definition of minimalism. What made me give it up? Not the fact that the KaiOS system was abandoned by WhatsApp and Facebook, but the lack of a physical QWERTY keyboard and a minimalist WordPad app with an active copy/paste function. Eventually, I would have preferred if the fairly good camera also had a zoom. I waited for a successor with a keyboard, but instead, Nokia abandoned KaiOS and focused on reviving push-button phones and flip phones in dozens of variations. Not a single remake of a QWERTY-keyboard phone. I left comments on the social media accounts of the Nokia and HMD Global campaigns, but I only received replies from other nostalgic folks like me. 2026 is the year the license granted by Nokia to the Chinese phone manufacturer expires. Meanwhile, another Chinese company, Unihertz, has made progress with a sort of Android-powered Blackberry clone. Although I want a phone with a physical keyboard, my goal wasn’t to complicate things with a smartphone, but to have a phone without smart features, yet capable of writing documents and browsing the Internet. Unfortunately, I’ll have to say goodbye to this minimalist concept.
Transylvanity Fair 