New phone - but which one?
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My Ubuntu  Phone (the BQ Aquaris  E4.5, from 2015) [1]  started to have
issues with  its build-in battery. Ii  is possible that it  may survive
another year of use  but I have also other reasons  for replace it with
something simpler. Now I have TWO SIM cards inside the phone. One is my
private (only  my family  and a  few friends know  the number)  and the
second is  also private  but its number  is leaked to  a lot  of people
(many people related to my work use this number indiscriminately - even
if they  know that is  is my private number).  To I'm thinking  that it
will be  a good idea  to stop  to use this  number. Thus there  will no
longer be need for a dual-SIM phone.

I also  no longer synchronize  my Pebble smart  watch with my  phone (I
still use the Pebble  but not as an external display for  a phone) so a
compatible smartphone is  no longer necessary. I am  also thinking that
use a calendar  on a phone is  not necessary (even for my  work). And I
don't use phone to surf the Web too  much (I do it only a work when I'm
on wifi - and at work I can use a better computer for this).

In short, I think that a smartphone has limited value for me and thus a
dumb/feature phone  will be better as  it may have a  real keyboard and
much longer battery life.

My requirements are quite light:

- a new phone not a repaired or reconditioned old one,
- voice calls and SMSs are enough,
- a full-size SIM or microSIM (not the nanoSIM or eSIM),
- hardware keyboard (a qwerty one, if possible),
- small readable screen an (e-ink, if possible),
- the phone should be small (not bigger than, say, a iPhone 3G)
- not too cheap look (I will have to take it to some official meetings
  so a Nokia 104 is not the best idea),
- a microUSB or USB-C connector for charging (not a proprietary one nor
  Thunderbird/Lightning/anything),
- a 3.5 mm audio jack for the headset,
- a simple or no OS if possible (not the Firefox OS or the Android).

And I am not able to find  one. Some people recommend the Punkt [2] but
it is very ugly  and and also expensive (well, I  can accept both these
issues) but it  does not have audio jack. Except  this Punkt MP01 might
have problems  in near future  (it's 2G only)  and the newer  (and much
more expensive) MP02  has the Android inside. And I  really do not want
an USB headset.

The whole  old Nokia (Microsoft?)  line is out  of game due  to display
problems and  cheap plastic  look. The  recent models  are based  o the
Firefox OS  (and there are  many complaints  about their quality  - too
small not well designed hardware buttons and so).

The Light Phone [3]  with an e-ink screen has two  models and for first
moment  they looked  to be  promising. But  the original  one does  not
support SMSs and  the newer model uses Android. There  is also no audio
jack.

I thought  about an older  BlackBerry (there are still  available never
used  ones)  but there  are  many  complaints  about quality  of  their
hardware. An  the BlackBerry Passport  (which is nice) is  probably too
big and it uses  nanoSIM (and it will be hard to find  an unused one in
Europe).

Sometimes there  are older Palm/HP  phones available, even  these which
were never used. But they use Web OS so I'm not sure if they are what I
want.

Am I need too much? It is possible that I haven't searched enough...


References:

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/product/bq-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition/
[2] https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/
[3] https://www.thelightphone.com/