There are too many reasons to avoid KaiOS
After my recent so long messages in the BananaHackers community chat rooms regarding why KaiOS sucks, I thought it would be much better if I write a blog post in the BH blog to let more people hear my voice and read my reasons regarding why one should not use KaiOS.
In the beginning, I chose Nokia 8110 4G instead of an Android phone for the following reasons:
- Avoiding social media and carrying them everywhere with myself. You know it is harder to chat using an ABC keypad!
- I needed a cheap phone capable of the basics of every mobile phone(Calls and SMS) plus 3G or 4G internet sharing with WiFi hotspot so that I could feed the internet to my Onyx Boox Poke Pro which is an Android ebook reader with an E-Ink display(which doesn't hurt eyes).
KaiOS is still capable of those for me including a few other stuff which I didn't need in the beginning but not everyone's use case just like mine.
Here I go through many reasons one might want to avoid using KaiOS and go for an Android phone instead. Many of the reasons I have listed here may only apply to app developers.
Note that all these reasons mostly apply to current versions of KaiOS excluding KaiOS 3.0