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New phone - but which one?
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My Ubuntu Phone (the BQ Aquaris E4.5, from 2015) [1] started to have
issues with its build-in battery. Ii is possible that it may survive
another year of use but I have also other reasons for replace it with
something simpler. Now I have TWO SIM cards inside the phone. One is my
private (only my family and a few friends know the number) and the
second is also private but its number is leaked to a lot of people
(many people related to my work use this number indiscriminately - even
if they know that is is my private number). To I'm thinking that it
will be a good idea to stop to use this number. Thus there will no
longer be need for a dual-SIM phone.

I also no longer synchronize my Pebble smart watch with my phone (I
still use the Pebble but not as an external display for a phone) so a
compatible smartphone is no longer necessary. I am also thinking that
use a calendar on a phone is not necessary (even for my work). And I
don't use phone to surf the Web too much (I do it only a work when I'm
on wifi - and at work I can use a better computer for this).

In short, I think that a smartphone has limited value for me and thus a
dumb/feature phone will be better as it may have a real keyboard and
much longer battery life.

My requirements are quite light:

- a new phone not a repaired or reconditioned old one,
- voice calls and SMSs are enough,
- a full-size SIM or microSIM (not the nanoSIM or eSIM),
- hardware keyboard (a qwerty one, if possible),
- small readable screen an (e-ink, if possible),
- the phone should be small (not bigger than, say, a iPhone 3G)
- not too cheap look (I will have to take it to some official meetings
so a Nokia 104 is not the best idea),
- a microUSB or USB-C connector for charging (not a proprietary one nor
Thunderbird/Lightning/anything),
- a 3.5 mm audio jack for the headset,
- a simple or no OS if possible (not the Firefox OS or the Android).

And I am not able to find one. Some people recommend the Punkt [2] but
it is very ugly and and also expensive (well, I can accept both these
issues) but it does not have audio jack. Except this Punkt MP01 might
have problems in near future (it's 2G only) and the newer (and much
more expensive) MP02 has the Android inside. And I really do not want
an USB headset.

The whole old Nokia (Microsoft?) line is out of game due to display
problems and cheap plastic look. The recent models are based o the
Firefox OS (and there are many complaints about their quality - too
small not well designed hardware buttons and so).

The Light Phone [3] with an e-ink screen has two models and for first
moment they looked to be promising. But the original one does not
support SMSs and the newer model uses Android. There is also no audio
jack.

I thought about an older BlackBerry (there are still available never
used ones) but there are many complaints about quality of their
hardware. An the BlackBerry Passport (which is nice) is probably too
big and it uses nanoSIM (and it will be hard to find an unused one in
Europe).

Sometimes there are older Palm/HP phones available, even these which
were never used. But they use Web OS so I'm not sure if they are what I
want.

Am I need too much? It is possible that I haven't searched enough...

References:

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/product/bq-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition/
[2] https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/
[3] https://www.thelightphone.com/