r/minimalphone

With the release of the Minimal Phone about three months away I am thinking more and more that this phone may hit the sweet spot for me. I have ordered each of the three pkb phones coming in the Clicks Communicator, Unihertz Titan 2 Elite, and Minimal Phone 02. However, there are certain specs with the Minimal Phone that are swaying me more and more.

1. Build quality. With the unibody aluminum build I feel like it will hold a more quality feel. Unihertz is in the same park here but the build quality of the CC has been a concern for me. Especially after some bad press fron Click's Power Keyboard.

2. I like that the keys of the MP are aluninum as well. May end up being nothing but nice nonetheless.

3. Wireless charging. While this is certainly not a requirement for me it is nice to have if ever wanted and needed. The Clicks has this feature as well while the T2E unfortunately does not.

4. Headphone jack. Again, not a necessity but nice to have and if all things even I would like. Again, CC has this while the T2E doesn't.

5. Notification light. In my opinion any Blackberry inspired phone should have this and I want it on my device. Not only does the MP have it but it's where I would like it as opposed to the CC. Unihertz simply did not include it.

6. OLED screens. This is something I wished the Titan 2 had and all three of these obvious do. The pixel density is the same on the CC and T2E while slightly higher on the MP. The CC and MP have a 90Hz refresh rate while the T2E goes up to 120Hz.

7. Displayport. This is sonething most may not care about but I want in a phone. The MP has this, the T2E does not, I've seen conflicting reports with the CC.

There are other things of note obviously. But I think the MP is checking more of the boxes than the others for me. The fact that it also has added a 3600mAh silicon carbon battery is excellent. If they reach a stretch goal it will increase storage to 1TB on the model I backed. They are talking the addition of a capacitive keyboard which is good as well. Especially if they integrate software additions to it. Considering their thoughtful approach to software right now I have reasons to believe they will.

I just backed the 8GB+512GB model on Kickstarter, but I noticed the MP02 seems to be missing band n25. This band, I feel, is crucial for a large swath of T-Mobile coverage. I see the Communicator has all of these bands and more and was curious as to why the MP02 was lacking them.

Does anyone know if they have acknowledged the lack of bands on their connectivity or if they will address this before launch?

With the Minimal Phone 02 on Kickstarter available for backing is their any of you with concerns of backing it considering Minimal's reputation after the release of the Minimal Phone 01? Minimal thenselves states that roughly 200 phones weren't delivered while community speculation is closer to one in ten or roughly 500 undelivered products.

Thinking about picking one up used. I might also get on the kickstarter for MP02.

What are the improvements and how stable is it now? What do yal think at fair price is?

It wouldn’t be my first e ink phone. I had a Hisense but that wasn’t really a good daily driver here in the USA. I want one that can be a 2nd device. I like reading and have stopped using my kindle in place of a foldable. Having a foldable kinda opens you to being “productive” and doom scrolling. It essentially replaced a ton of other devices but I think I want that friction again so I can force myself to read more and do less doom scrolling, streaming and social media

I’ve backed the MP02 but i see the keyboard small compared to the Clicks communicator and others ¿What do you think about?

After I accidentally posted this in the wrong subreddit, let's try this again, with feelings.

Now that we have all the details on MP02 including price, curious to see who would be jumping on the campaign? I was waiting if there would be a 12GB variant, but it turned out to be outside my price range, so I'm sitting this one down unfortunately.

EDIT: Corrected RAM spec unit.

My MP01 is having an issue where the Google play store is saying it’s not a certified device. The phone isn’t rooted and everything is up to date. I’ve tried flashing the software back onto the phone but it’s still saying it’s not certified. Has this happened to anyone else?

Will it be released as a launcher? Looks really interesting, especially if it worked on my MP01.

So I come from a Samsung where I have used the Nuagara Launcher, whuch is very similar to the Minimal Launcher. So I really wish I would like it, but there is this annoying bug with it where I can't really change the names of the apps so that the ones I often use show up at the top (it renames ut to its original name after a few hours).

So I was wondering if you have had any success with other launchers? Might give the Niagara Launcher a try.

Hey everybody!

Im a guy here severely addicted to my iphone looking for an alternative. The idea is to leave my iphone at home so that i can have a less addictive alternative with me to the gym or away for a weekend. There what i need is:
- something that has maps, spotify, can call and text
- i can just order another sim card and have my texts and calls arrive on both phones
- bluetooth works so i can listen to music on my bose headsets
- should have restricted app access. Sideloading apps is fine

Thank you!