This sounded like something I would be excited about but damn we got different ideas of 'low-price'.
This is almost twice as expensive as my moto power was that gives me several days of heavy use or a week of light use on a charge
I think my phone was around $1200 when I bought it, so, for me, this is low priced.
I also acknowledge that I bought a flagship Samsung phone. Not everyone does that.
I wonder how hard it would be to open source something similar with something like an nrf52 or similar and a 3d printed enclosure I might have to look into this tbh
SQFMI Watchy exists... And has a chinese supplier now which doesn't suck
The community is also active, recently a few from ground up firmwares have appeared
Man, I've been dying to get one ever since a friend told me about em.
While I can get them via Aliexpress, they come with a very minimal case, with the sides exposed. I'm struggling to find anyone selling replacement cases and I don't have access to a 3d printer to make one myself unfortunately.
I'll keep looking though.Look up your local 3d printer community
- The seller on aliexpress will probably have in the future usbc version with cnc case
"Minimal"
At the software level, the Minimal Phone is based on a customized version of Android 13 and uses the MediaTek MT6769 SoC. It has 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. The front camera has a resolution of 8 MP and the main camera 16 MP, of which the latter comes with flash. Bluetooth and WiFi for both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands are supported. NFC, GPS and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor are also included, as are a compass and gyroscope.
A fingerprint sensor? 16 MP camera? This is just a regular phone with a worse display. The 2009 BlackBerry Tour had 128MB of RAM and a 3.2 MP camera, and it was high end. I realize there just isn't a market anymore for a device that doesn't have these features that could be priced under $400, but it really speaks to a lack of imagination in the industry.
Also even if the prototype in the video is fully functional, they are not gonna have these delivered by August this year with a $500k goal lmao.
Yeah, it was interesting, some of the comments here mentioned the price as being too high, I looked at the price and immediately thought "this is going to be vaporware"
I'd get this if it has other messaging apps like Signal, and banking apps...seems like it has android so should be ok. Unfortunately I don't see it hitting the market realistically...
I wish I could get a tablet that is like the ReMarkable tablet with more storage (at least 64GB, storage is dirt cheap these days) or a MicroSD slot. I'm not paying $400 for a tablet with 8GB of storage in 2024. For comparison, you could buy 8TB of SSD storage for that price.
This is interesting but not quite what I want.
I wish I could just keep using a GSM/CDMA phone from 20 years ago indefinitely sometimes.
Somewhere (and it keeps moving) is a small pile of cellphones that I haven't gotten around to getting rid of. Every few years I'll do some cleaning/rearranging and stumble across an old Motorola Razor flip phone and I kinda miss it.
The size and weight were good. Solid construction (dropped the thing a few times and it took the fall like a champ). Doesn't do smart phone stuff, but hey, there was enough memory that it could store some audio files and simple text files.
I have an e-ink notebook. The low refresh rate is intolerable for doing anything like menus or text input.
I like the idea of a minimal phone but I think e-ink is a deal breaker for me, and I suspect most others.
