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I've been using the Unihertz Atom for three and a half years now. I absolutely love it. The GPS is better than my Sony Xperia had. I've thrown it across rooms to demonstrate how durable it is. Its small size is always a conversation starter.

A few months ago I bought the new Jelly, and while it has a slightly larger screen, I didn't like the updated version of Android. I went back to my Atom. If anything happened to it, I would immediately buy another without a second thought.

New iPhone SE 6 years ago

If you're an Android user looking for a small phone, I feel your pain.

I've had one of these for about 6 months and I absolutely love it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KP8J8YN

Disclaimer: I have NO affiliation with this company at all. I'm just a happy user.

Pros:

- built-in rugged case. I've thrown it around the office with no issues

- incredibly small. It fits in the watch pocket (fifth pocket) of your jeans comfortably

- waterproof. Because it fits in my jeans pockets so well, I accidentally washed it with my jeans after a spill. The only piece of clothing in that wash cycle was my jeans, and the phone fell out at some point. It must have banged around in there for 15 minutes; but after the wash was done, I grabbed the phone and unlocked it with my fingerprint. No worries.

- some of the best BT and GPS I've experienced in an Android phone. (And I've owned Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Xperia phones).

- reasonable battery life for a phone of this size

- everyone tells me speakerphone sounds great

Cons:

- the camera is literally a potato. Don't buy this to take photos with.

- good luck typing on this incredibly tiny screen. But instead I use Android's voice-to-text which works great.

I took a chance and it is an absolute marvel.

I do agree with you that, until we've had it around for decades, the real long-term effects of vaping are hard to pin down.

However, as a person who has smoked a pack a day and has vaped, it's my unscientific opinion that the latter is much less harmful than the former. And I think most people who have the experience of using both will agree.

> Vaping is also much more expensive than cigarettes.

Are you serious? A pack is between $5 and $10 depending on where you live. You might go through that in half a day.

A bottle of e-cig "juice" is like $30 and lasts you for a month.

And I don't even understand the allusion to fentanyl...

This whole thing has nothing to do with keeping kids off nicotine and everything to do with keeping people of all ages on cigarettes.

Vaping is safer than smoking.

Let's say I'm Phillip Morris. I sell Marlboro and a slew of other cigarette brands. E-cigs come along, offering a safer alternative that is importantly much more cost effective. They're eating my lunch.

How do I kill this industry? I buy Juul. I remove the fruity flavors (which people of all ages enjoy more than tobacco flavors) and I claim that I'm doing it to protect the children.

Juul is now much worse off; big tobacco gets to claim that it's looking out for the kids; last step is to manufacture a public crisis to have cover for over-reaching legislation that bans what would otherwise be the least harmful of all age-restricted products.

Keep smoking.