Does it do sms? How's the battery life? I might get one...

Yeah, it does SMS just fine. I had to charge it up every 2-3 days though and I'm not a heavy user at all. I call for the odd taxi a few times a week and that's it.

Be warned, it charges via its 3.5mm jack. It comes with two USB adapters for you to charge and read its internal storage.

Woah. Charging through the headphone jack? That's pretty weird (and cool).

The iPod shuffle did it:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC003AM/A/apple-ipod-shuf...

I used non-Apple headphones with one and ended up with a nice black scorch mark and broken iPod, I guess because a bit of sweat got in there.

Do you have a product link?

That’s not the phone depicted in the article

It's the same processor and operating system.