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Minimal Phone

First reviewed May 2025 · Full specs on GSMArena

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Key specs

Launch price (US)
$399
Form factor
Standard
OS
Android
Display
4.3″
Main camera
16 MP
Battery
3,000 mAh
Chipset
MediaTek Helio G99
Base storage
128 GB
Software updates
5 years
Sold in
US

What the reviewers said

Wired US

6/10May 14, 2025

Helps cut social media use through a deliberately frustrating e-paper Android phone, but ghosting, a weak camera and modest battery life hold it back.

  • Effectively reduces time spent on social media apps
  • Full Google Play Store access like a normal Android phone
  • Physical keyboard and matte e-paper screen readable in any light
  • Two-day battery life with average use
  • NFC, headphone jack, microSD slot and wireless charging
  • Constant ghosting requires frequent manual screen refreshes
  • Camera results are grainy, blurry and poorly exposed
  • Video and social media scrolling look like a strobe
  • Plasticky, cheap-feeling build with smudge-prone back
  • Battery life short of expectations; software updates promised for five years from…
Read the full review at Wired →

Verdicts, pros and cons are short summaries in our words of each publisher's review; scores are as the publisher gave them. Specs are taken from the reviews' spec boxes — where they differ, we show the value most of them give; price is the US launch price of the base model. Read the originals for the full picture.