What’s even worse: To send a message, you need to use the D-Pad to navigate the cursor to the WhatsApp send button. Fiddling around with the keypad, without T9 and even without switching to capital letters or numbers – you have to go through all the options on one key to find things like that. Using WhatsApp on the Smilyphone is just like that. Remember typing text messages on a keypad? And the people who always wanted to write in Swiss German, which wasn’t recognised by the T9 predictive text technology? Remember how annoying that was? And this is exactly where its biggest weaknesses can be found. Of course, a few things had to be adjusted for this Android derivative, as it doesn't have a touch screen. The Smilyphone doesn't allow installing an app to sync WhatsApp messages. Your existing WhatsApp messages, however, can't be transferred, as they're only saved locally. This is done by sending a VCF file, which is opened on the Smilyphone and is automatically imported into the contact list. But I found it easy to transfer all my contacts via Bluetooth. And of course, you can’t transfer data from your old phone onto your Smilyphone via your Google account. You don’t need a Google account to use it, but you can’t download any apps, either.
One without Play Store and all the other Google apps. Quite obviously, this is a modified smartphone. Apparently, that's all they're allowed to say. It's an open source OS with its own overlay, which they developed together with MobiWire (the manufacturer from France). I contacted Movigo to find out what this really means, but didn’t get a satisfactory answer. When it comes to the operating system, the manufacturer states «Open source OS» on the website and «Proprietary OS» in the specifications. A second attempt with an older 16 GB card was successful. However, my 64 GB Transcend card could not be recognised.
This phone takes Micro SIM (with today's Nano SIM, you need an adapter) and MicroSD.
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