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"I'm eagerly awaiting the market's return to phones that you can actually fit in your human-sized hands. Bigger is not always better." I never bought a smartph
by rsync 11y ago
"I'm eagerly awaiting the market's return to phones that you can actually fit in your human-sized hands. Bigger is not always better."
I never bought a smartphone because I never wanted to carry around huge devices ... for the last few years I have used a motorola F3 ("moto fone")[1]. I loved this phone.
It finally broke, however, so I was forced to buy a modern phone, and I found the Neptune "pine"[2] which is a phone-watch, but you can detach it from the watch band and it essentially becomes a very, very tiny full featured android phone.
I have been using it for about two months and it is great - it's basically a very tiny hotspot device that I use for mobile wifi and bluetooth, etc., and it works great as a phone ... and texting/typing isn't ideal, but it works.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neptune/neptune-pine-smartwatch-reinvented https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neptune/neptune-pine-sm...
- abrowne 11y agoI loved my Motofone too. I've also been thinking a smartwatch might be the best chance for a small phone these days. Thanks for the link to the Pine.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoLooks more lightweight than the last secure phone design I had. The need for dedicated chips for CPU hardening, baseband firewall, and power isolation made it quite bulky. Looking for a commercial model, I settled on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator Didn't build it for obvious reasons. It was the shit back in the day, though, with probably some people willing to buy if they get trusted chips. Not sure enough on return to want to risk it, though.