The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @[email protected]!
As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.
But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to…
Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @[email protected]!
You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!
That’s it for this year’s Golden Lemmy, folks!
(Nomination thread is here for future references.)
I’m hoping this becomes real someday. https://smallandroidphone.com/
The qin3 ultra match a lot of his demands for under 220$ but it’s lacking quite hard on some others( mainly camera ). What he’s asking for is a premium small sized phone but since it’s a niche product with limited sales, making a premium quality varient would make it a niche within a niche, so I highly doubt we’ll see it one day.
It’s already a reality: https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series
My only issue is that it’s not Snapdragon and not quite dev/root friendly, but otherwise it ticks all the boxes - including a 3.5mm jack and an IR Blaster!
Jelly Star is rootable and there are GSI roms that will run. Just FYI.
From the guy behind pebble? Neat
There have been some small phones that run Android over the years. These days it’s less common I suspect because the devices are used for so much more these days. Having more of our lives involving the mobile smart device makes a larger screen just more sensible.
But over the years there have been some. I have a few in my collection. I think Nokia has had some. Also a couple of Sony Ericsson Xperia models I think. Some others too.
But current tech I just don’t think manufacturers want to bother because I don’t think the potential customer base is good enough to be able to make it worth making.