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Posted by nashashmi 5 days ago

Minimal Phone 2(minimalcompany.com)
328 points | 258 commentspage 7
sbinnee 4 days ago|
I love the form factor. I would love to tinker with it!
eigencoder 4 days ago||
I don't love it, I wish it was more handicapped
soyboy_supreme 4 days ago||
6000 series aluminium design, wowzers! And only $1699
aleksejs 4 days ago||
I really like the _idea_ of a QWERTY phone, and halfway through this page there's a section showing how you can use special characters to invoke commands (presumably by just typing at the home screen?), like "- buy milk" to add a todo entry or "? aviation recipe" to search. This sounds great, and somewhat difficult to replicate on a touchscreen!

But I'm not convinced anymore that the actual typing experience is any good. Way before that exciting section, there's a video where somebody takes two full seconds to type "Hey bro you" on this phone's keyboard. I tried: in the same amount of time, I can type "Hey bro you mean everything to me" on my Pixel's default keyboard.

Scrapemist 4 days ago||
Nothing on how long the battery lasts?
wbsun 4 days ago||
Minimal here is really confusing me: why a phone with so many physical buttons/keys and jack port is minimal but other phones without are non-minimal?
jibal 4 days ago||
Not available to people without tattoos.
altern8 5 days ago||
I don't get why having a keyboard is minimal.
carefree-bob 5 days ago||
I read that as "minimum standard", not "minimal" as in "not possible to make it have anything less". People need a keyboard and the screen keyboard on iPhones today isn't pleasant, at least for me. I'm not saying that this keyboard will be better, it may suck even worse, but the lack of a good keyboard experience is the main reason I don't do much with my phone other than order Ubers when I'm on vacation.
altern8 5 days ago||
I see.

The way I use my phone--mostly for reading--in my case just means that most of the time I would have this thing I don't need taking up space.

But I guess it's good to have alternative, people use things in different ways.

nmstoker 5 days ago||
I don't think that's a core part of the minimalism. It's about the overall aims (less interruption etc) and their Minimal OS (based on Android) and the fairly simple launcher.
kerenskiy 5 days ago||
I was excited before I saw battery section. 3600 mAh with 27W charging would be a bigger downshift than comfortable from 6000 mAh and 90W charging. I pray for +capacity version
Markoff 5 days ago|
72mm width ain't nothing to write home about, you can find even nowadays phones narrower than that

as for the rest, I fail to see why pay extra for this niche nonsense when you can achieve exactly same thing with whatever Android launcher you prefer, only differentiator of this device is physical keyboard

crap specs with only 90Hz display and MediaTek Dimensity 8300 for 600+ USD and it is not even released yet, but maybe in few months when these specs will look even worse than they already are

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