Earlier than the iPhone 12 mini arrived everybody was very excited. They wished a 5.4-inch iPhone. However no person purchased it.
Earlier than the iPhone 13 mini arrived, everybody was excited over again. They nonetheless stated they wished a 5.4-inch iPhone. However no person purchased it.
Now, a startup involving the folks behind the Pebble smartwatch needs to have one other attempt at making a small telephone. However will somebody purchase it?
Small however mighty
The brand new telephone comes within the type of a mission known as the Small Android Cellphone (opens in new tab) which, admittedly, is not going to be an iPhone. However it may be small, because the mission’s title suggests. And with the staff concerned it is troublesome to think about this not turning into one thing spectacular.
That staff spoke in an interview with The Verge (opens in new tab) and Ben Bryant, one of many staff leaders, confirmed that issues are transferring. Bryant labored with Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky beforehand and says that the telephone’s goal is to have the ability to “take good pictures.”
That, we’re instructed, signifies that we will anticipate a digital camera across the 50-megapixel mark. However by way of the precise telephone — the bit you maintain — that’ll be “a pleasant gentle slab that’s very prime quality, very properly put collectively, very stable feeling, and that simply has very gentle particulars that really feel very nice in your fingers.” That is in line with Alex De Stasio who has executed industrial design for GoPro up to now.
There’s nonetheless no title for the telephone, and we do not know the way huge the display screen will likely be apart from it will be lower than 6.1 inches. Processing energy might be dealt with by final 12 months’s Qualcomm flagship, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1.
All of that sounds good, however the telephone is about to promote for round $850 which is a good chunk of change for one thing that is anticipated to be small. $999 will get you into Apple’s finest iPhone, the iPhone 14 Professional, right this moment. However that has a 6.1-inch display screen, so actually, ought to we even examine the 2 telephones?
Possibly not. However we’re nonetheless not satisfied that there is a enormous marketplace for mini telephones usually. And contemplating Apple did not make an iPhone 14 mini, we aren’t the one ones.
