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is the NookPhone better than our smartphones?

If the NookPhone – the one and only smartphone available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons – was a real phone, what would be its advantages and disadvantages? This is the question that the Endgaget site tried to answer, by collecting the opinions of its readers, and it is rather positive.

Even in a video game like Animal Crossing : New Horizons On Nintendo Switch, the smartphone occupies a fundamental place. On arrival on their island, residents all receive a NookPhone, a smartphone that allows them to call their loved ones, capture photos, consult their findings in terms of fish or insects, or even create shopping lists of DIY items. Admittedly, everything is controlled by Tom Nook – which would not please anti-trust laws very much – but in the world of Animal Crossing, this NookPhone seems to have many advantages that we would like to find on our smartphones, but which ones?

It’s the little game Engadget, which listed the opinions collected on the NookPhone on the product page of the smartphone on its site. Even if the product does not exist in real life, it must be admitted that comments seem clearly positive about the phone. Above all, it is an opportunity to note, with lightness, which points seem the most important for users: the NookPhone thus seems acclaimed for its design and its incredible solidity as well as its flawless network – with call quality stunning – but also its incredible autonomy. “I never had to charge this phone. I don’t know if it works with a lithium-ion battery, solar, or AAA batteries, but I can say that Nook Inc. could be sitting on a real gold mine if it decided to concede this technology to other companies » notes a NookPhone user on Engadget.

But if the material – however intangible – wins all the praise, it seems that the software still has some flaws. “Limited selection of applications”, “Not Facebook, Netflix, YouTube or most of your favorite apps”, turn out to be the main criticisms of it (like on a recent smartphone from Huawei, in short). Some users deplore glaring shortcomings, such as a music player, or even mobile games, while others see in the NookPhone a “Slave tracking tool designed by Nook”. The only exception: the camera, described as ” revolutionary “ by some users, thanks to its ability to take third-person selfies, such as “A drone that follows you everywhere”.

Certainly, the smartphone market in Animal Crossing is not as developed as in the real world and the choice turns out to be limited to the NookPhone only. Nevertheless, some good ideas emerge from this phone, despite a limited ecosystem. As a reader of Engadget, the foundations are laid to make NookPhone 2 a must. And you, would you be ready to replace your current smartphone with a NookPhone, even if you would sell your soul to this good old Tom Nook?


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