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Posted by nashashmi 5 days ago

Minimal Phone 2(minimalcompany.com)
328 points | 258 commentspage 6
silon42 5 days ago|
Is this missing Android navigation buttons? I wonder if they considered to have them physical again.
thex10 4 days ago||
I welcome this kind of innovation in mobile UX. It's absolutely refreshing!
ARandomerDude 4 days ago||
Hard to justify for $599/$699 when a new Pixel 10a is currently $424 on Amazon.
bigstrat2003 4 days ago|
A Pixel 10a is far bigger and has no headphone jack.
weee322 4 days ago||
I need communicator: Wire, tox, simpleX, jabber and new invented after 2030

ouch and open boootloader

grishka 4 days ago|
The product page explicitly mentions an unlockable bootloader.
dlm24 4 days ago||
Why is this minimal if you can download all the normal android apps?
nashashmi 4 days ago|
Minimal is the name of the company.
pmkary 4 days ago||
I don't know if you see it or not; but they started with really really minimal and dumb looks, and in this version started to add colors, UI elements and... So I guess a few versions in, and they'll build a iOS/Android from the first principles...
p4bl0 4 days ago||
Like a lot of similar devices, it looks cool, but, just like a lot of similar devices which have a physical keyboard, it will probably never be released with anything else than a US qwerty keyboard, so I'm already out.

Update: didn't scroll down enough! Indeed they have. Neat.

albertjs 4 days ago||
They have 5 keyboard layouts available. Is yours not listed?
r3trohack3r 4 days ago||
What are you talking about? It ships with 5 language options for the keyboard on day 1?
Muhammad523 4 days ago||
Remembers me of the Mecha Comet and the Clicks Communicator
mattanimation 5 days ago|
Maybe if GrapheneOS ran on it
infamia 5 days ago||
It says they offer a degoogled version, which is cool.

https://minimalcompany.com/#purchase

wuhhh 5 days ago||
Since you can’t run Graphene on non pixel devices, this seems like a big feature
senectus1 5 days ago||
if the claim is trusted. yeah
wuhhh 5 days ago||
Yes the site seems to be all surface level marketing with no detail to be found, not a great sign
mrweasel 5 days ago|||
That really illustrates the issue to me. Personally I don't need it to run GrapheneOS, but I do need a parking app, internet sharing, a TOTP app and MobilePay, others will need different application.

Creating a minimal phone is almost impossible, because it means different things to different people. Mine could be a Nokia style candy bar design, because I don't need a large screen or a camera, but it does require completely custom applications.

nmstoker 5 days ago||
It's going to run a form of Android so you should be able to install those apps you need
mrweasel 4 days ago||
Yes, but I don't want to run some form of Android, or have easily available apps. The apps are the distraction, so I would want the browser and the app store removed and only be able to load app via USB or a SD card.
monomania 5 days ago|||
Yeah they talk up privacy but trust is a big component of that. Where's the source? I distrust Google...but I also distrust a company I've never heard of with mobile device data in 2026. It's basically keys to the kingdom now.
lazzurs 4 days ago||
Would buy in a heartbeat if it did.
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