Nokia 1.3 - user opinions and reviews
- Hayden
- X%g
This phone is very slow and will not recognise the Victorian Government Services QR app. I changed to this phone from an old Nokia flip top which served my needs adequately. The 1.3 is not good and is being dumped next week for an Apple.
- Bjossi
- MFH
I bought this as a first phone for my kid and what a disappointment. The phone is way to slow and it can't even run simplest games. The battery is ok but I would even recommend this as a simple phone because of slow response to make a simple phone call.
- Anonymous
- XLN
Dtr, 28 Jan 2021Answer please, is nokia 1.3 good enough for ebooks reading? No
- UltraGamerYT79
- HK{
Bruh I thought it was a "decent" phone and it is actually a joke. Luckily I'm upgrading to Galaxy Note 10 Lite. Android Go is super limited. Also get a Nokia 2.3 for the same price and it will be better and the 2.3 has proper android.
- PTB
- dM0
Had it for a week, and it works. I had to learn how to make and receive phone calls (disable the power-off button stops calls setting, or it will hang up when you pick it up less than daintily! What a default!). I was happily installing apps like hangout and zoom but it slowed way down so I went through with a system diagnosis and it turns out things like that are in ram ("stopped") even when not running, so I ditched all those and things are much speedier now. I'm still trimming the process table. I've been running it as a wifi hotspot for my laptop and that works fine too. The only thing is that I haven't been able to get the USB tether option going. It's greyed out in system settings. System diagnostics tell me that the USB device is not supported in the phone's onboard Linux kernel! No driver for Nokia/Drax USB? What? No kidding! The web has murmurings about using a data-C USB cable, not a power-only one, but I'm using a cable I connected to my old Nokia smartphone with. There are more murmurings about using the right drivers on the PC side, but I have linux and the mtp-tols and libmtp should handle anything over USB using the MTP protocol, and nix. Nothing seen. No reaction to probes with mtp-detect, etc. Lack of driver phone-side would be an explanation - where to get one and how to check definitively? There are firmware flashes out there, but I want Nokia to tell me, not the web. As to the rest of the phone ... well, it's all operating system plus screen, camera and wifi/teleco peripherals! A tiny computer of your own. No trouble there. I've owned less capable computers. I'm typing on one! But the phone part is mostly mystery still ... as folks say, one has to wait for the green "accept" menu to come up when receiving a phone call and not touch it otherwise. That can take 30s if you were doing something else at the time, in which case immediately DESIST. No touchee anything until you hit that ACCEPT. Then wait again, and do NOTHING meanwhile. No second taps. Shrug. I don't exactly make or receive a lot of phonecalls! For email it's fine.
- moneyos
- jDw
This phone is unusable. None of it works. I've owned it for two days and now I have to throw it away because I screwed up and threw the box away. Clearly, Nokia doesn't care about their customers or they would've never released this piece of garbage onto the market. I'll never buy another Nokia product.
- Anonymous
- 43p
SamDee, 05 Feb 2021To say the phone is laggy is an understatement. I've been using it for 2 months now as my... moreYou are very correct. All you have said is what my daughter is experiencing. I bought the phone for her as her 10th year birthday. But she's not enjoying it. It is a rip off.
- Stduke
- Nu6
SamDee, 05 Feb 2021To say the phone is laggy is an understatement. I've been using it for 2 months now as my... moreMy bro. All you said is true but the most annoying thing is that one can not receive calls. Nokia should update this phone to resolve this problem.
- Fezz
- fjT
SamDee, 05 Feb 2021To say the phone is laggy is an understatement. I've been using it for 2 months now as my... moreI'm experiencing the same
- kUzerie
- r3H
Kaapo Palli, 03 Apr 2021You should not but this phone but if you got it as a present it works barely works. Just don&#... moreThis is the most useless phone I have ever used. Nokia 1.3 not good for anything. You cannot even play 8ballpool on this device. I regret purchasing this phone. The phone is still under warranty but in my country they will not return my money. What a stupid phone
- AnonD-862551
- j2v
Decent burner/emergency phone. Just for calls, texts and a removable battery.
- Kaapo Palli
- 39a
Mesho, 25 Mar 2021It's the bestYou should not but this phone but if you got it as a present it works barely works. Just don't go crazy with it
- Mesho
- NY7
Bruh, 06 Feb 2021My mum bought this for my 12th birthday and I still liked it. Hopefully the performance improv... moreIt's the best
- mrfone
- nw}
SamDee, 05 Feb 2021To say the phone is laggy is an understatement. I've been using it for 2 months now as my... moreHave you managed to get the phone working better? I tried Safe Mode and it answers within seconds. I am now not in safe mode and gradually adding apps that I use. Also being very careful what access I give each app.
- fraxing
- mYj
just put other rom it . root it, delete the apps build in , download the apk files and you have a nice phone
- ryce prince
- XAf
Anonymous, 03 Feb 2021Seriously, you are complaining about gaming on a phone that is not actually made for gaming?i know right?
- Bruh
- pJU
Michael , 28 Jan 2021terrible phone don't but for children please or adults they will hate it Even my son an... moreMy mum bought this for my 12th birthday and I still liked it. Hopefully the performance improves when it upgrades to Android 11 Go
- SamDee
- CAq
To say the phone is laggy is an understatement. I've been using it for 2 months now as my main driver. And it's struggling to even handle its own native apps.
Knowing that it's a basic OS, I didn't install much additional apps. I only have Whatsapp, Uber and MyVodafone apps installed. Everything else on the phone are the native pre-installed Android-go apps. And even with his meagre setup the screen is super laggy. When receiving a call, the phone starts ringing but the screen doesn't show the call UI for a good 30 seconds, by the time the screen shows the call interface and I pick up the call I find the caller already hung up. This phone can't even handle its own call app, a 30 seconds lag on a native call app is just unacceptable. It takes another 20-30 seconds lag to bring up the keyboard UI to the screen. If you need to reply quickly to an sms, forget it, you won't see the keyboard come up any time soon. Also forget about launching an app from the notification screen (even the native pre-installed apps), it will either fail to launch them or take ages, you'll be better off launching apps only from the home screen.
The phone also frequently stops doing background operations. I'd frequently receive bulk sms and whatsapp messages when I open that particular app sine the phone wasn't runing it in background. Same happens with the call app, sometimes it doesn't run in the background and I get complaints from friends that my phone was switched off when they called, while it was definitely not off.
I'm not sure if all the above shortcomings are due to the Android-go OS, or due to the poor spec of the phone. Or alas, maybe android-go is not compatible with whatsapp or Uber apps, if the latter then this should've been flagged out in Google playstore.
- Anonymous
- vxm
Anonymous, 28 Jan 2021I hate this it supports on of my fav games at 13 fps trash chip even my Huawei y6 performs bet... moreSeriously, you are complaining about gaming on a phone that is not actually made for gaming?
- Trumped
- pEt
Answer please, is nokia 1.3 good enough for ebooks reading? How gigabytes are available to use? How does battery last?
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