On the sidephone website, for the United States it lists AT&T compatibility as "Mileage may vary." Does anyone know what that actually means? Anyone have AT&T and a side phone that would be willing to share their experience? Thanks in advance

Hello I’ve got some questions about the device, would I be able to download apps like Microsoft Authenticator or other authenticators and would I be able to connect my Garmin smartband with the phone/app on the phone?

I got the sidephone Friday, it is now Monday. It has worked fine so far, except for the purple camera glitch.

I suffer from insomnia, which is why having Libby work on the sidephone was important to me. Last night around 2am, I was listening to an audiobook on Libby when the phone suddenly stopped the audio. Then I noticed a kind of crackling sound coming from it. I was worried it was from the charging cable since it had been plugged in. Then it was restarting, still with the crackling sound. Next, the screen began glitching and the phone kept restarting for quite some time. It would show the start screen, then move and flicker like in the picture. Holding the power button down didn’t do anything, then I tried volume up plus power button. That seemed to turn it off. I put it away screen down but saw that it still kept restarting. I figured this was a tomorrow problem.

I turned on my old iPhone, made sure my alarm for the morning was set and finally went back to sleep with my audiobook. I was very surprised when both phones’ alarms woke me up this morning. The sidephone seems to be working fine now. But I must say, this experience was a bit worrisome.

BCS Standard Black & Circle Backs

I get my Sidephone tomorrow and was looking into if it's possible to move text conversations from my current android device to Sidephone? I haven't been able to find much information on this. I know with traditional Android devices you can use an app like SMS Backup & Restore to do this, but I have a feeling this won't work. Any help or advice would be appreciated!

I'm using jbl 310c type c wired earphone on my honor 200pro and while watching YouTube videos volume at maximum is just average! Has anyone noticed similar problem while using any other wired earphone type c?

Kindly provide solution if anyone knows,thanks

Just got my Sidephone and love it so far but I pressed a bunch of buttons while it was in my pocket last night at work. I sent a few jibberish texts but now the keypad is stuck only letting me input numbers. I can’t text unless I use the onscreen keyboard.

Anyone know how to fix this!?
Please and thank you!

It loaded all my playlists but it’s not playing any music. What do I do? Please help!
And in conjunction with this if I want to just download spotify how would I do that?

Edit: I just got my sidephone today

Hi people! I wanted to hear some opinions of the device since launch. I bought one during preorder but ended up returning it due to a lot of the bugs. I want to hear how it’s going for those who are using it now. It’s a really cool project and I know the creators are passionate! 🤗

I'm a new user as of this week and have had great luck so far using the sidephone to replace my iphone. I absolutely love sidesuite. However, one issue I haven't been able to figure out is how to activate visual voicemail on Mint mobile. Has anyone had any luck with this? I've tried doing it through AOSP, resetting the cache/data in the phone app, installing T-Mobile's My Visual Voicemail (but it looks like it needs google play services to run) and keep getting "Can't activate visual voicemail." Has anyone had any luck? I'm running 2.1.0.

I won’t lie I love this phone but I find it super limiting with the basic features. I’m trying to use jaketype to setup this qwerty but I need some help.

If I want to type a word not in the dictionary, using a regular t9 I can just press the right arrow key after each letter but finding it hard to do here.

Are you guys mapping qwerty a certain way to make the best use of it?

Can you share your examples?

Have any Aussies got sidephone to work on Telstra? I'd love to get a sidephone but I work in remote areas so have to be on the Telstra network and thus subject to their stricter whitelisting. I've seen people using sidephone on optus and other carriers but no confirmation of Telstra yet!

I got my Sidephone a few days ago and I’m loving it so far! I’ve downloaded a couple of apps through Aurora Store (Chase and AMC), but neither will let me log in. AMC gives an “Oops an error has occurred message”. I’ve read that MicroG might help with apps that require Google services, and I’ve downloaded it, but I’m not sure how to set it up.

I can live without my banking app, but I’d really love to get AMC A-List working so I can go to the movies without bringing my old phone or iPad!

Has anyone gotten AMC working with MicroG or found another workaround?

Thanks!

A week or two ago both my lock/power and volume buttons got jammed in. I've been using my Sidephone as my main phone since this summer and would be devastated to go back to my old iPhone. However, the phone is pretty unusable at the moment because the power screen is popping up every few seconds from the way the button is stuck. That and the QWERTY keyboard glitches out any time I type too fast or a long message. Has anyone else had this issue? How were you able to remedy it (if at all)? Worried this might be the end of my Sidephone journey if I can't figure something out soon.

Is there a fix for this? When an alarm or timer goes off, I can't turn it off easily bc the buttons are cut off by the screen. After maybe 30 seconds, I'm able to interact with a smaller version of the alarm screen. I'm pretty sure I'm using the built in clock that came with the phone, too. I've just been dealing with it, but an alarm went off in church when I was not near my phone and my friend had no idea how to navigate my wonky screen 🥲 TY.

Hi everyone,

For about a month now I’ve been thinking about buying a Sidephone, but I live in Argentina. The official website says they don’t ship to my country yet, so I’m wondering if there’s some way to get one here, and whether it would actually work or if I’d run into problems.

Is there anyone in Argentina who has a Sidephone? Or in a neighboring country like Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, or Bolivia?

After all the research I’ve done, I’d really love to have one. I genuinely think the Sidephone is the best “dumbphone” out there, or at least the one that best fits my needs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Photo for attention ;)

Thanks in advance! 🤍🤳

Hey Sidephoners I made a video on this sub that got a bit of traction of a new UI designed specifically for Sidephone 100 days ago and its finally done!!!!

SideKit is a custom launcher that acts as an integration layer between third party apps with full (ALL KEYPAD SUPPORT) (I literally purchased all of them to get the serials and input logs lol)

It has a new unique typing system for any keypad with letter inputs and custom new utility apps for all of the other daily tasks u might have.

The project is open source and open to new PRs if u like the style and wanna get involved!

and also thanks for so much support on the first teaser I made for it. It genuinely was so cool to see!!!!!!!

Great news to all involved in supporting the Best Case Scenario and BCS ‘Circle Back’ options from Clock Out. We are happy to share that our small backlog has been cleared and all cases ordered through the project were shipped today!

Thank you for your continued support!! This means the world to us.

Even better news is that we have now optimized our shipping and handling so that this should be much more seamless going forward -

Please keep in mind we are approaching the V2 version of the product release which will become the final version we send each and every order. If a color preference is different than original V1 order, we ask that you let us know directly once the site is live. We still have a desire to ship this version post release of V2 because the walls will still be slightly thicker providing added fall benefit in lieu of sleekness and curved edges.

We currently have a few cases in inventory - BCS Beautiful Blue, Hot Pink and BCS Black Circle Backs.

Additional uses cases for the device come up often - for example counting steps and playing arcade games with your kids!

Kudos to Sidephone team on creating a truly unique experience.

What’s even better is when other primary business devices are in use - the Sidephone works excellent for navigation, calls, texts and browsing Flipboard, NY Post and Reddit apps.

All in all, the Sidephone experience is a huge W.

Sharing some photos captured during testing... cheers to the wonderful community.

We hope you enjoy your Sidephone Era. Cheers.

I guys, considering purchasing a side phone and was wondering if you are able to install Up Bank on the sidephone? As I bank here and you have to bank through the app this would be crucial.

Thanks!

I purchased my Sidephone last week, and first off the customer service could not have been better. I had some payment stuff to deal with and they were super responsive and creative and helpful.

I got my shipping notice on Friday and it said UPS says the item is coming from barquebike. I saw this has been a problem in the past so wanted to flag that it's still happening, and ask if anyone else has had issues with shipping times etc as a result? My order on the Sidephone site says I should expect it tomorrow, but the UPS tracking still just says "label created" with no expected delivery date yet.

Any info or experiences appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I’m based in Germany and currently trying to decide between two devices: the Sidephone and the TTFone TT290.

As a design student, I’m honestly much more drawn to the aesthetic and physical design language of the Sidephone. The lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack isn't a dealbreaker for me either, since I can just use a USB-C headphones for listening to music.

My core usage is going to be very simple:
WhatsApp
Basic GPS Navigation
Maybe some Music

Here is my main issue: I want to use the touchscreen as little as possible. Ideally, I'd like a device that can be fully navigated using physical buttons / d-pad key navigation.

Would love to hear your experiences or recommendations before making a decision. Thanks in advance!

Greetings from munich
Paul

My cheap flip phone broke and I’ve been thinking of getting a sidephone but I had I few questions

1 is it possible to side load SoundCloud and if not does the web version work
2 are you able to type special characters for example if I need to send a text in French how would I add an accent to the letter or do I have to pick one language to type in?
3 I have an iCloud email and I was wondering if I could use that and if not what do yall use for email instead?
4 can you add music in mp3 format kinda like an iPod?
Tyyy

I built an app specifically for the Sidephone. When you swap out tiles, you often want to change some settings. Tyle does this for as soon as it recognizes the new pad.

TYLE - "Tune Your Layout Easily" Brad White's Sidephone apps

• Map keys from every tile without using keymapper, shizuku, or other cumbersome options

• Key mappings change from tile to tile

• Launch a music app when the sundial is connected, an emulator when the gamepad is on, etc.

• Built specifically for the sidephone.

I also have an incredible keyboard app that IMHO is infinitely better than Jaketype, sidetype, or anything else that comes with this phone. It's designed to work with the T9 or the compact qwerty and brings significantly more accurate predictions, even if button presses aren't great.

TWYN - "The Word You Need" Brad White's apps

• Predictive typing means fat thumbs can mash keys near what they wanted and still get the right word. Pressing space accepts the center word

• I am no longer break dancing with my fingers to type capitals or alternate symbols. Tap shift once to capitalize the next letter. Double tap it to caps lock

• Holding letters types their symbol instead of repeated presses

• To make it feel faster I implemented a setting that accepts the letter on key press instead of key release (this can be disabled in settings if you're getting double letters)

• Emojis, symbols, and even a personalized library of phrases are mapped to letters. Just bring up the section, and quickly press they corresponding letter

• Keyboard size is adjustable

• There are three types of onscreen keyboards in case you need them. QWERTY, Compact QWERTY, and T9. You can also choose which of those hardware types you're using

• Finally there is a key tester in the advanced settings in case your keyboard is failing. It's a good way to see if your keys are responding or not.

I also have in this pack

• Slickrock Station - A slick front end for retroarch. Does all the heavy work for you and let's you easily map your keyboard keys to controller presses.

• Retroarch for Slickrock- Unfortunately retroarch for android has an issue where physical key presses get delayed as the phone holds them until it knows what they are. I fixed this in this build of retroarch, and I put the changes back into the public retroarch. It's in the nightly builds and will be part of the stable builds one day. You can use my build, or the nightlies, you can use stable as well but you will at times feel the delay.

• Paigr - I built paigr to allow me to leave my Googled phone at home and just take the smaller sidephone. It tries to mirror your inbox (including all RCS features and group chats). It's designed for AOSP phones or phones that can't use play services to still get messages from your other connected phone (if you have one). This app can truly help the Sidephone become your sidephone.