Would yall ever get a KaiOS phone because I know I have one and all the features it come with have help me break away from my phone addiction and has made me socialize more so would yall get a KaiOS phone or what is yall direct opinion on them?
I never even heard of it. Looks interesting. Glad to see offerings from Nokia. If it gives me 5 days of battery on a single charge like the old Nokia days, I could be sold. 
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I have a Nokia 8110 4G and had big hopes on it,but I’m quite disappointed and haven’t used it for years.
After the death of Blackberry OS and Windows Phone and basically everything other than Android and iOS,I was very happy to finally see a third option again and couldn’t wait to try it.
The fact that the core is open-source and it’s based on good old Firefox OS made me think it could be a nice open platform.
I was wrong on that,it’s a closed walled-garden and it comes with lots of bloatware that you can’t uninstall,that you can’t even disable like you could on Android.
It comes with the exact same Google spyware garbage that is the reason I want to get off Android.
It’s maybe better at this point to just get a basic feature phone that supports calls and SMS and nothing more.
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I have this as my daily driver.. calls and txt works fine and battery lasts about 2 weeks.
Of course i have old android phone (cat s62 pro) which i use banking, maps and FLIR thermal imaging if needed..
Few years i had Sailfish phone as daily driver, and before that Ubuntu Touch couple years also. I even tried use Pinephone with Mobian for couple of months.
I use an Energizer E280S (which runs KaiOS 2). Like @nipos I had big hopes on KaiOS, but the reality is not as I hoped. Still. it’s not bad at all, and definitely better than the spy- / bloat-ware galore called Android. It’s often called “feature phone”, and I think that description is accurate.
Apart from normal phone features, it has decent camera (even video capturing - albeit that one is low resolution), internet (and yes, you can watch videos), WiFi tethering (very useful when I am away), GPS (whenever I need it), and a few other goodies, like voice recorder etc. Possibly quite more since KaiOS has its own repo to download applications. I do not use any “social” media so I can’t tell much about it - unless you count a few technical Discourse as social media, which I don’t.
What I am missing is Wire messaging and “Via Michelin” route planner - at least I couldn’t make them work. However its GPX route recorder is actually better than what I’ve seen on Android.
All in all, I have no intention to change it for a “better” phone any time soon. I wouldn’t even get a KaiOS phone with a touch screen.
I charge mine once a week, but then again I am not a phone addict.
I also used sailfish for quite a long time. It can run android apps which is pretty nice, and they just added support for bluetooth in android apps so you can connect your smart watch or speakers or whatever to android apps now. But there are no sailfish phones with a physical keyboard and I still find touch keyboards frustrating.
For a while now though I have used the unihertz titan series as my main phone (the smaller ones, titan pocket and now titan slim, I’ve pre-ordered the new titan 2 elite). This is about as good as it gets for smartphone with keyboard these days.
The sidephone SP-01 looks like an interesting option. I used nokia series 60 phones until they stopped being able to run whatsapp. E55, E72, E73, E6. And the sidephone seems to have something in common there. But I am not sure android will be the best fit.
My son has the above pictured nokia (nokia 3210 4G) from a couple of posts up. It’s basic but it works. You can’t load any kind of apps at all on it, or get email, tethering, maps etc. I kind of think they should have retained the J2ME app functionality as he’d love a few more little games. But it’s nice for a school phone. No social media, but he can message and call his friends, listen to music (MP3s) and take photos/videos. Most of all we are sure that we can contact him when he takes the train to school and we can also be sure he doesn’t face all the complications of social media and wider internet.
As for KaiOS… I have not tried it. It might be a nice option that sits somewhere between a true dumbphone like the nokia 3210 and actual smartphones. But I do need to be able to use whatsapp these days for basic communcation requirements, unfortunately, since I am locked into it by school groups for my children as well as friends and family who all use it. Perhaps a KaiOS phone would be a good idea for a later upgrade for my son.