This legendary watch brand wants to create the ultimate Android mini-smartphone

Eric Migicovsky, the creator of smartwatches as we know them, wants to launch a small, community-supported phone.

The world of smartphones tends to commercially opt for an increasingly larger size. Thus, the segment of mobile phones with very contained sizes has been disappearing over the years. However, there are still brands that compete to have the smallest smartphone. This is the case of the founder of Pebble, who, tired of the fact that no brand makes more compact phones, has opted for take the lead and create your own. The truth is that the project looks very good and aims to be truly collaborative.

This is the bet to create a mini-smartphone

Eric Migicovsky may be a name that it doesn’t ring a bell to you. However, he is the founder of Pebble, a brand of smartwatches that created the concept that today we all carry on our wrist. Smart watches owe a lot to this brand, which was truly ahead of its time. Unfortunately, poor decisions and fierce market competition caused the brand to had to close its doors. That hasn’t kept Migicovsky away from the world of technology, since he is a true geek. Now, he comes up with a project so exciting as interesting and in which it arises make a tiny smartphone in a communal way. Something that has also arisen based on the users of the website the edge

Now that many brands, such as Apple, have abandoned their projects to make smaller phones and that formats are getting biggerMigicovsky has decided to launch the “Small Android Phone” together with his development team. For this, he has obtained the support of more than 38 thousand people who want to participate in this project.

To do this, they have created a Discord community to which anyone can join and in which they slowly show themselves efforts in its development. The community discusses the new changes and chooses the most important aspects of the moment: its chip, its screen, the design of the back (as you can see in the cover photo) and even its name.

These are the names that are being considered from the small development team

Ben Bryant is at the forefront of this plan, along with Migicovsky and was also one of the key people in the Pebble development. Thus, the “Small Android Team” continues to work on how to design phone.

for now, it is not clear how the phone will be but have a basic idea of ​​where they want to start: they want it to be small. Something so basic has become the center of his obsession with developing a phone that is the right size for our hands. Thus, they want to flee from the gigantic proportions of today’s phones. But the thing does not stop there, but they are also looking for a distinctive rear part. The phone seeks to be innovative enough to make it perfectly recognizable In the distance.

Remember:

• It is a project of a creative who has been very successful in the industry with his ideas.
• It is a collaborative project that counts on the opinions of the interested parties.
• Look for a “mini” format.

Now the phone does not want to compete with tiny mini-smartphones with Android Rather, it is proposed as an alternative to the end of the production of phones such as the iPhone Mini, which had a screen of about 5.4 inches.

They have clarified that this may not see the light, since having an original rear module could trigger the prices of this device, which also will not be marketed in a really extensive way. However, the truth is that it is a very original approach and an initiative that helps revitalize a somewhat stagnant industry.