The volume of the Unihertz Jelly 2 (77.4cm³) is more than 13% larger than the volume of an Apple iPhone SE (2020) (68cm³)!<p>I consider that to be a good reminder that there is no free lunch: If you build such a small smartphone, you suddenly don't have enough space behind the screen for a flat battery anymore, forcing you to increase the depth of the device to fit an adequate battery. You then end up with a device with a similar volume as one with a larger screen.
If Sony ever brings back Xperia Mini I will be a happy man.<p>I don't want the best camera or the fastest cpu. Can live with a tiny display. Just give me something that can run Android 10 reasonably well in a tiny package and you have my money.
I missed this which irritates me: I have the first Jelly and would definitely like a larger battery and better GPS. May still order one later anyway.<p>I love the size and convenience. I find the keyboard surprisingly good for such a small screen. For my purposes: occasional call, signal message, GPS/GoogleMaps it is perfect.
Great! This seems to compete with the new palm.com phones, but the palm ones have poor battery life (palm do look nicer though).<p>I'd be happy to drop money for a phone this size provided it can last all day. The whole point of a small phone is not to think about it - including having to charge it halfway through your day.
I was eager to buy this and even had the kickstarter on my calendar and checked it first thing this morning after waking up (PST). Unfortunately $129 was really the limit of what I was willing to pay and they're out of that tier of pricing. I cannot imagine this retailing at $200 and doing well. I guess I'll pickup a used one in a year when someone gets bored with it.<p>I have the first one and it's great for the gym or running. However removing the rear backing and battery to swap my phone's sim card into is a pain (so that I don't have to pay for two phone plans when I only use this one a few hours a week), as is the micro USB charging and the lack of fingerprint reader and the smaller battery.
A phone like this would be absolutely perfect in my world. Not as a daily phone or a phone at all but rather a bicycle computer with extended features. Shoving a 5-6-7 inch screen on the handlebar is borderline impossible and and anything but optimal. But something like this could be perfect: exercise tracking, music player, with some additional work you could hook it up to a camera mounted under the seat and have a mirror, which I find extremely useful. Ideally one or two buttons mounted somewhere around the shifters to easily switch between some pre-defined modes(tracking, camera, map, weather, etc.) and it could be absolutely perfect.
It looks like a downsized version of the Motorola Defy which I'm still using on and off. It has the same screen resolution on a smaller screen (the Defy has a 3.7" screen). The selling point for the Defy was the fact that is was waterproof and relatively sturdy (which is proven by the fact that I haven't managed to break it in 9 years of rough use), I'm still waiting for a similar but more up to date device to appear. There is no information on whether this device is waterproof, this question is asked in the FAQ but not answered.
Can you make one that's just not RSI inducingly large? I don't need "oh it's so cute" at parties, I need, "that looks almost usable."<p>I'm so close to just buying a second hand Nexus 5, i'm so over all these phablets.
Seems great for the prison phone market! Even though it is on the larger side and will be quite uncomfortable to fit. There is are while (mostly Chinese) lines of phones made for smuggling [1]. Seems like a stretch that it has a lot of appeal outside of that market.<p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zngpz4/prison-phones-that-go-up-your-bum" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zngpz4/prison-phones-that...</a>
According to the linked page, the Jelly 2 is 95mm * 50mm * 17mm.<p>The Palm phone is 97mm * 51mm * 7mm, so it's smaller (particularly a lot thinner) than the Jelly 2.<p>Still, it's wonderful to see more options in the pocket-sized phones!! A vastly under-served market.<p>I bought the Palm phone after it was discussed here a month or so back. Very happy with it, actually fits in my pocket and I can't feel it's there.
This reminds of my old HTC Magic.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Magic" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Magic</a>
Everyone is so concerned about privacy. Apple, Android, Google, etc. spend billions of $ and hundreds of people on managing privacy for their mobile devices, vetting apps, monitoring and hardening the hardware against hacking. Even then they don't get it totally right.<p>What are the chances some new small phone prototyper is going to do this properly to the point I trust it enough that the novelty of something smaller is more valuable than not getting hacked and monitored?