Hammer 5 Smart

Technical specifications

Hammer has WhatsApp where you can even make calls. Ideal for a hotspot abroad where it is used as a router with a foreign card.

Well, it is the worst phone I have had so far. I do not recommend it. Searching for and selecting contacts is a complete failure. The keys respond poorly and even unlocking the keypad usually only succeeds after several attempts. Writing text messages without a dictionary method is very uncomfortable. Using this phone is very counter-intuitive. I miss the real Finnish Nokia.

I rated the phone 4/10. I used it for a year, and it broke after that time. This is not related to its physical durability, which is likely high - my phone remains in perfect visual condition. I bought the phone after researching the best available rugged phone - it turned out that the Hammer 5 Smart was the one. I do not know if that is true, but this phone is poor. I am referring primarily to its operating system. It is slow and highly dysfunctional in some areas (e.g., to delete part of a note's content in the notes app, you have to press the "delete" button as many times as there are letters to be deleted. Or to write a parenthesis in a text message, you have to enter the special characters menu). You can get used to it, but it is irritating, seriously. Listening to music on the phone was impossible - the music application did not detect anything at all. Fortunately, the system has its own equivalent of Google Play, from which you can download another player for free that actually worked. This store is actually quite good; there are many free games there. Overall, the operating system has a great number of small problems. The phone had some hardware issues because a brand-new SIM card would regularly disconnect, and the PIN had to be re-entered to reconnect. Furthermore, several times during the year, the phone simply turned off - all instances except one occurred while listening to music. And one such shutdown - the one without music - resulted in the phone stopping working completely. I replaced the battery, but it did not help. By the way, the battery is quite weak in my opinion, as the phone lasted a week without any activity on it. The phone's camera is poor; primarily, taking photos of text does not provide a legible image (this is probably due to the lack of an autofocus function). And now I am going to look for a new rugged phone for myself...