This post will serve as a "Live" Document of Features and Bugs I encounter with the Unihertz Titan 2 Phone.
Update
Prior to purchasing my Titan 2, I watched a video review on YouTube. In a first video, this particular reviewer was critical of the Titan 2, but in a follow-up video, this same reviewer stated that had "warmed up" to the Titan 2, and reported that is was now his main phone, and that he "couldn't put it down".
I have basically the same report. I use the Titan 2 more than any other electronic device I have ever owned. I literally have it in my hand, or on the table right next to me -- Usually Rear Display up (Read below for why it is usually this way) almost all the time.
I use it for texting (RCS Chats), Email, Text Editing, and General Web Surfing. I use the Infrared Port to control a TV/monitor here at the house, and an app to adjust the temperature on my WiFi thermostat. I use it to check on the cameras at the house, and another app to make sure I remembered to lock my car. When I'm in my car, I use Android Auto for navigation and traffic. I use the NFC functionality to buy my food, and the alarm to wake me up in the morning. I use the camera for basic "cell phone snaps", and when cell phone snaps aren't good enough, I use Nikon SnapBridge to work with my DSLR. Yes, any mobile phone can do these all these things, but the Titan 2 makes them easier or better in subtle ways. I don't have to reach for a universal remote to control the TV. The keyboard navigation features let me do editing on the Titan 2 that I would otherwise probably do on a PC. 3:2 pictures from the DLSR fit the 1:1 screen better than they would a 19.5:9 or 20:9 "normal" phone (or especially a 21:9 phone). The same is true for official National Weather Service Radar image for my area, which at 600x550 lets me see more usable area of the picture than I would on a "normie phone".
- A single frame of the basic NWS radar image. This 600 × 550 pixels image fits the 1:1 screen of the Titan 2 very well.
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Recently, someone was trying to show me family pictures on their older iPhone, and on every picture they showed me, they did the "old fashioned" (so I am calling it) wrist twisting exercises to change orientation. The next day, My son showed me pictures on his phone of a new cooling system he bought for his Gaming PC. Because he took the pictures looking down on the cooler and packaging, the phone got the orientation wrong when he snapped them. Again, he was fighting the auto-orientation on every picture. I almost wondered if they were both going to need a visit to a chiropractor.
The other thing that has me enamored with my Titan 2 recently is the cursor control features of the Kika keyboard. I was updating these forums, and I have really gotten into the hang of using the on-screen cursor arrows. While it does take up a lot of screen space (The cursor control arrows are larger than they need to be, in my opinion). As mentioned, it made precise editing of text almost "Desktop Easy".
A Very Nice Titan 2 Accessory
I have purchased the Shantime Leather Flip Case for my Titan 2. While this does have the disadvantage of putting me back in an "unfold to use" configuration, the elegance of this case, the protection it provides the Titan 2, and the ease of opening with the magnetic leather strap makes it worth a quick extra step.
The Titan 2 and case still fits in my back pocket (or leg pocket of cargo pants), and the string makes it easy to access and secure to hold. From the feel, I do believe that the Shantime case is true leather, and I really like the two-tone look. The "spine" is embossed with "Case designed by Shantime", and the front is embossed with "Shantime", which also give it a more elegant, unique, hand-crafted look. I plan to by a more substantial fabric strap to complete the higher-end look.
Sorry that I neglected to wake the rear display in picture 3, but this is what I meant by setting the Titan 2 on a table face-down. It looks even more "high-end" and makes the rear display far more practical.
Picture 4 shows that the Shantime case is exactly the same size as a small, and equally elegant paper note book that someone gave me. The paper notebook is standard A6 "pocket" size, so while perhaps not that common in the US, other similar sized note books should be easy to find online. Carrying the 2 together is a great solution for taking notes digitally or by hand, while maintaining -- nay, creating -- an elegant and professional look. The Shantime case, with the cover folded backwards, actually makes the Titan 2 easier to hold and type on -- at least for my American-sided hands. While I have been going on about *not* using the Titan 2 in portrait mode, and leaving auto-rotate off, The Shantime case will function as a stand to hold the the Titan 2 on a table in landscape mode if so desired.
I should mention that a quick search for "Titan 2 case" did not seem to initially show this product on "A certain large on-line retailer", but once I found it in a Google search, it took me to either the Shantime website, or a retailer where I could order it. While it does not come overnight, it did arrive a day sooner than the earliest arrival date the retailer predicted, so these are real, and available.
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Bugs/Irritations/and Things that need to be Improved in Future Firmware Updates
-- The Titan 2 always reports "Charging rapidly" no matter the source or type of USB charging attached. I have a cheap table lamp with a pretty much useless 1A/5V rated USB outlet in the base. At best, it will put a few percent charge in a very basic phone in an hour. When I connect the Titan 2, it comically reports "Charging rapidly ", but I've never left it connected long enough to see even a 1% increase. When I connect the 45W PD charger that came with my Steam Deck, the Titan 2 gains a percent every couple minutes, but still reports the same "Charging rapidly". This could be very irritating if, for example, you are traveling and need a quick boost. There no way to know -- except to wait -- if it is actually "Charging rapidly" or not.
-- The words suggested by the Kika keyboard are very poor, and generally nonsensical. It will always suggest a certain foul word after the word "actual" - I suppose it's great if you want to make sure your child gets a good introduction to street language. I'm very familiar with the expression "What the actual ----?", but that's not the only time the word can be used in an actual sentence. There is no setting in Kika keyboard to make it not suggest foul language. I guess I can't really criticize Unihertz for this, because I don't claim to be up on the more colorful words in Chinese street language either. (Although, I do know some in Russian -- like "pancake".) It also seems to like to suggest "chinese" "buick" "adapter" as the 3 word suggestions when it doesn't know what else to suggest. Apparently I typed those words when I first got the phone, and Kika got fixated on them. I don't know what a Chinese Buick adapter is, but must be something very common and useful.
-- Another Nit about the Kika Keyboard: When it does suggest the correct next word, if that word is a proper noun, it is always suggested without the first letter capitalized. I guess I just figured out why: From Google AI: "No, traditional Chinese characters do not have upper or lower cases." Correcting the capitalization is a real pain in the a--! I mean What the actual f---?! (I'm trying to get the hang of using the more "dynamic" language my Titan 2 is trying to teach me.)
Features and Benefits (The Good)