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I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com https://smallandroidphone.co

I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com https://smallandroidphone.com

lente 7mo ago
I just signed up on their site and got a mail with the following info: "To catch you up: We’ve been hard at work over the summer building out a team and searching the globe for a manufacturer to build our dream phone. It’s been a slow process, but we’re nearing completion and expect to be able to kick off this project very soon. Once we have a manufacturer locked in, we will be reaching out with a full update on the project and our plan to move forward."
- brookst 7mo ago
  Guess they’re southern hemisphere?
gingersnap 7mo ago
I was hoping for this too, but when I saw that Eric Migicovsky went back to building pebble I lost my hope for it
coldpie 7mo ago
So... there is a 4" Android phone out there. It's widely available, and from a major manufacturer. It's very usable, and it runs mostly stock Android. I have it, and I like it very much. Brace yourself for the reveal because you're not going to like it. It's a foldable. It's the Motorola Razr+ or Razr Ultra (I have the 2025 Ultra). The outer screen is 4" and you can use it for almost everything you want to do. I use the outer screen probably 80+% of the time, since I prefer small phones. Every once in a while you run into an app or website that just wasn't built to function on a 4" display, but for almost everything I've tried it works great. You can then also un-fold it into a full-size 7" phablet when you need to do high-detail stuff like Maps. There are downsides: it's expensive; it's a foldable, so reliability is a concern; and Motorola's OS support promise is not great at only like 3-4 years. But if you're willing to make those compromises, you can get a genuinely very good, small phone, right now today. Once you get over the shock of having a foldable suggested to you (I was initially skeptical, too), give it a look. It's really genuinely a nice phone for small-phone-likers.
- butz 7mo ago
  How likely, that Motorola Razr will run GrapheneOS?
  - ysnp 7mo ago
    The partnership is for future devices, rather than existing devices.
- williamsss 7mo ago
  The weight is an issue for me at 189g. I've been looking for something compact, light weight, secure with a decent OS for 2 years without luck. Iphone air is tempting at 165g if the screen was smaller. Unihertz Titan 2 Elite may hit the sweet spot if the weight is kept low.
jovial_cavalier 7mo ago
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max

I wonder if the Small Android Phone project has moved forward since the last time it was posted here: https://smallandroidphone.com https://smallandroidphone.com

lente 7mo ago

I just signed up on their site and got a mail with the following info: "To catch you up: We’ve been hard at work over the summer building out a team and searching the globe for a manufacturer to build our dream phone. It’s been a slow process, but we’re nearing completion and expect to be able to kick off this project very soon. Once we have a manufacturer locked in, we will be reaching out with a full update on the project and our plan to move forward."

brookst 7mo ago
Guess they’re southern hemisphere?

gingersnap 7mo ago

I was hoping for this too, but when I saw that Eric Migicovsky went back to building pebble I lost my hope for it

coldpie 7mo ago

So... there is a 4" Android phone out there. It's widely available, and from a major manufacturer. It's very usable, and it runs mostly stock Android. I have it, and I like it very much. Brace yourself for the reveal because you're not going to like it. It's a foldable. It's the Motorola Razr+ or Razr Ultra (I have the 2025 Ultra). The outer screen is 4" and you can use it for almost everything you want to do. I use the outer screen probably 80+% of the time, since I prefer small phones. Every once in a while you run into an app or website that just wasn't built to function on a 4" display, but for almost everything I've tried it works great. You can then also un-fold it into a full-size 7" phablet when you need to do high-detail stuff like Maps. There are downsides: it's expensive; it's a foldable, so reliability is a concern; and Motorola's OS support promise is not great at only like 3-4 years. But if you're willing to make those compromises, you can get a genuinely very good, small phone, right now today. Once you get over the shock of having a foldable suggested to you (I was initially skeptical, too), give it a look. It's really genuinely a nice phone for small-phone-likers.

butz 7mo ago
How likely, that Motorola Razr will run GrapheneOS?
- ysnp 7mo ago
  The partnership is for future devices, rather than existing devices.
williamsss 7mo ago
The weight is an issue for me at 189g. I've been looking for something compact, light weight, secure with a decent OS for 2 years without luck. Iphone air is tempting at 165g if the screen was smaller. Unihertz Titan 2 Elite may hit the sweet spot if the weight is kept low.

jovial_cavalier 7mo ago

https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max