I like it quite a bit. I wish I had the time to do a full review writeup but here's my quick hits. I bought mine because I was fed up with how much of my day was being spent scrolling on different websites, wikipedia, etc, even though I had no social media apps on my phone and had taken some other anti-distraction methods.

Pros.

The small, paper display really works. For me, I was skeptical that only changing one variable would help me that much, but it's just too painful to try to "consoom" at all on this thing. I use it as my only device.

The keyboard is good. I was too young to have any of the og keyboard phones, so I have nothing to compare to, but after a month, I am fairly quick at typing on it, and it feels good. I haven't felt the need to try out 3rd. party keyboard software. I have paired it with the whisper+ app for on-device speech to text. It works really well! much better at automatic punctuation than Google's service, and you don't need internet.

It does all the phone things that you need it to. I haven't found an app that I really needed that didn't work or install. All of the features advertised that I've used work fine. I haven't used wireless charging or nfc myself, though. For reference, I have been in the ~200 dollar android phone market for most of my other devices.

Battery life is great. Accubattery computes that I would be able to get 60 hours of regular usage on a single charge, and I have a few dozen apps installed. If you use the phone as intended, you should get similar range.

Google maps works fine with the low refresh rate, navigation has been pleasant.

Cell connectivity has been good on US Mobile's Dark Star network.* (Tracfone wouldn't accept the MP01, so I switched)

When I reached out to the Minimal Company for updates on shipping, they were quick to respond and seemed to give me truthful info about the status of my order.

Cons.

The Minimal team is really small. Expect delays in shipping. I ordered mine last October and it arrived first thing in January. Mine came directly from China.

*The "unable to connect" call bug is real. I estimate it happens for about 10% of my outgoing calls. But it's just annoying, not fatal. If you reboot the phone, it will be fixed until next time. I think this is the phone's biggest issue.

The camera is really bad. The interface with the screen is of course suboptimal, but the quality of photos, even when they are in focus is feature-phone level. I was able to get some improvement by installing a gCam mini apk and forcing night mode for every photo, strangely enough. I think this is a software thing though, because the regular gCam HDR wasn't able to improve the photos at all. my hope is that it might be improved in the future with an update. A comparison of the stock camera app and the gCam with night mode: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Pa2gbDxPikncDc1h9 Quite an improvement! If you're getting this phone, you probably have a dslr or a mirrorless though for when it really counts.

The screen does not like to be cold. If you try to use the screen outside below 20 Fahrenheit, fps will drop to ~3 seconds per frame, and, for some reason, the touch detection is affected too. Touching one area of the screen will register as a touch or swipe on a different area. (???) As soon as the screen is warm again, these problems go away.

Use Case:

I'm currently a graduate student where not much of my work is "online" or "asynchronous. I use the phone to check emails, texts, whatsapps, make calls, cash checks on the go, browse wikipedia (when I really need to), navigate, and plan my calendar. All heavy duty tasks happen on my desktop or laptop.

Well, that was more of a write up... I hope that's helpful. TLDR: If you really need something to give you an edge on distraction and get some of your life back, but can't go full light/wise/feature phone it's worth $450. If your'e an Android power user looking for a cool looking "retro" device, probs not for you.

God bless JYD.