On paper, its apps cover most of the functionality you’d need from an everyday phone. There are Google apps like YouTube, Maps, and Assistant, and you’ll also find Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp (but no Instagram, Messenger, or Spotify). You’ll find many popular apps preinstalled on the Nokia 2720 Flip.
In other words, can this phone do the basic things you need a communication device to do, without constantly distracting you like a smartphone? Since HMD is pitching the Nokia 2720 Flip as the kind of phone you’d use for a “digital detox,” it seems only fair to evaluate it on these terms.
It can connect to both 4G LTE networks and Wi-Fi, and it’s got Bluetooth for connecting to your wireless headphones. It’s got a tiny screen with a resolution of just 240 x 320, a 2-megapixel camera (there’s no selfie camera), a dual-core 1.1GHz CPU, and just 512MB of internal storage.
It’s a little hard to review a feature phone like the Nokia 2720 Flip, because it’s so obviously not trying to compete with any smartphone on the market.
Human vision is basically widescreen - and our screen design choices largely reflect that - but plenty of our productivity needs aren’t really suited to widescreen formats.Ĭonsider writing code or articles for the internet or reading chats online as a few examples. Rotating a screen to portrait or landscape is an age-old harmless prank, but why would you want to rotate your screen outside of that situation? The answer is productivity. If you decide to change the hotkeys from their default setting, be sure to pick something you won’t press accidentally - occasionally inverting your screen without meaning to is an annoying experience. There is an entire section, “Screen Rotation,” dedicated specifically to hotkeys that let you rotate your screen without opening up a menu.