Small Android Phone: Pebble team is preparing a powerful mini-smartphone

Last year, Eric Migikovsky, the founder of Pebble, wrote that he wanted a small Android smartphone, but not

finds nothing suitable on the market.He launched a petition to Android manufacturers to create such a device, but soon volunteered to solve it himself. Together with his colleagues at Pebble, he founded the startup Small Android Phone, which is currently creating a similar device. They strive to create a device similar in size and design to the iPhone 12/13 mini, but with modern Android hardware. For example, they are considering Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and 7+ Gen 2 as the chipset.

The company also intends to install it in a smartphonedual camera (base+width), 8 GB RAM, 128/256 GB ROM, small battery (goal - 4 hours of screen time without recharging), NFC module and pure Android. The cameras should be “no worse than the Pixel 5.” Price guide: from $700 to $800. It is still unclear whether Small Android Phone will be able to bring these plans to life, but they are already negotiating with assembly plants in China, and are also solving the most difficult problem: looking for a display for the new product. High-quality screens with a diagonal of about 5.5″ production has almost ceased, and it is difficult to find a suitable panel; one of the suppliers offered a screen with a notch a la iPhone (apparently this is a panel from Qin 3), but the Small Android Phone team refused.

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Based on Small Android Phone and liliputing.com