Minimal Phone

Successfully reduced my time on social media apps. Performance is mostly smooth. Access to all your favorite Android apps. Two-day battery life. Lots of accouterments like NFC for contactless payments, headphone jack, microSD card slot, and wireless...

Constant screen ghosting, so you have to hit the refresh button liberally. Abysmal camera. I expected better battery life. Plasticky build is off-putting.

In theory, the Minimal Phone has everything that makes it a unique device. But in practice, it feels more like an Android with an e-paper display than a breakthrough product. It's certainly not a "dumbphone", but the limits of its hardware narrow its...