I've had my Solana Seeker for about a month, and I've been using it pretty much every day.

Summarised, something you can read in about a minute as you drink your coffee, these are some of the drawbacks and some of the good stuff.

The good stuff

• Battery life

Granted, Seeker isn't my main phone, which means I don't use it as often as my main phone but, from what I can see, battery life, with the phone connected to the internet at all times and sometimes hotspotting my other phone, is pretty good. Definitely well over a full day, sometimes more than two days on a charge.

Also, and this is quite interesting, most phones tell you how much battery you have left in terms of percentage. Seeker does that, but it also tells you when your phone is likely to die.

As you can see from the picture below - when I took the picture at 1.11 PM, I had 19% left, and it read 'until 11.30 PM'.

• UX/UI

For me, one of the biggest problems with Android is that the user interface and user experience isn't great. The graphics can be pretty bad, it can be a little clunky and, in some phones, you feel like you're using a toy, not a phone. Some of these phones are also quite slow.

But not Seeker. The UI looks competent and stylish, it's relatively easy and intuitive (still not as good as iPhone, imho), and it's smooth and fast.

• Price

Seeker was available during the 'Founder Window' from $450, and then at $500 for the 'Early Adopter' window.

I got it at $450 but either way, if you bought one, you made the money back with airdrops (assuming you sold either right away or when each token peaked), and then some. Translated: I got this phone for free, and got some extra cash as well. But even if you remove the airdrops from the equation, this is a good phone for $450.

The bad stuff

• Build quality/design

Companies often use plastic and then spin it to make it sound premium. Casio makes some watches made out of carbon-reinforced plastic that the company calls 'Carbon Core Guard'. Then you've got Swatch with the MoonSwatch, made of plastic and ceramic.

But that's a tomato-tomato situation, because plastic is always plastic, no matter how you call it and spin it.

It's a wonderful material, relatively easy and cheap to produce, relatively easy and cheap to recycle, and more durable and resistant than we think: but it doesn't feel 'nice', and it doesn't feel premium.

It feels flimsy and cheap.

Seeker is made of a plastic-like, hybrid glass-and-plastic material. But it's still plastic. When you touch it, use it, look at it, it really doesn't feel like a premium phone, in my view.

Interestingly, the old Saga, the Seeker predecessor, was made of titanium, ceramic and steel.

• Camera

The camera isn't bad, but it's not excellent either. One of the main reasons why people who love iPhones love iPhones is that Apple smartphones are great at point-and-shoot photography, which is what most people do.

Seeker is okay at that, and the picture initially looks great. But the more you look at it and the more you realise they come out looking already overedited.

Also, it doesn't record 4K videos.

'Honourable' mention

I'm gonna put the dApp store in the 'honourable' mention category because I can't decide whether that's good or meh.

In theory, it's a great idea. But, in practice, I still haven't found any dApps that are particularly useful.

I guess stay tuned for that.