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Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by kgwxd »

andrepd wrote: post #10
timw4mail wrote: post #8

Wow...100% funded in 175 seconds

And still virtually every single phone released in the past 3 years is bigger than say 140x68cm, which is about the maximum you could call a "small" phone.

I bit almost instantly. I've been waiting for something that looked promising in the small phone arena for years, this is the first one I've felt comfortable trying. I assumed it wasn't going to have a headphone jack, but it does!

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by gillesjacobs »

Seems great for the prison phone market! Even though it is on the larger side and will be quite uncomfortable to fit. There is are while (mostly Chinese) lines of phones made for smuggling [1]. Seems like a stretch that it has a lot of appeal outside of that market.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zngpz4/prison-phones-that...

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by FreakyT »

ruffrey wrote: post #5
jaredandrews wrote: post #3

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?

I had the original Jelly. Had high hopes of getting a small modern phone, with minimal features but no time wasting apps, but returned it. Battery life was hours. It wasn’t safe to take to work because it’d be dead in an hour of listening to music on the commute. Phone call quality was so poor my family and coworkers went mutiny. I could hear them fine but the mic was awful, apparently. The screen was so, so small th…

You might be in luck later this year — rumor is that the smallest model of “iPhone 12” will be almost the same case size as the classic SE.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by frabbit »

I missed this which irritates me: I have the first Jelly and would definitely like a larger battery and better GPS. May still order one later anyway.

I love the size and convenience. I find the keyboard surprisingly good for such a small screen. For my purposes: occasional call, signal message, GPS/GoogleMaps it is perfect.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by kilo_bravo_3 »

timw4mail wrote: post #8

Wow...100% funded in 175 seconds

This is just "BEST SELLER 3.5 INCH ULTRA SMALL CELL PHONE SLIM ANDROID OEM CHINA UNLOCKED 4G DUAL SIM" on Alibaba with a fingerprint reader and better camera.

The same as every single other Jelly product.

I'll never understand kickstarter.

edit: you're probably able to find the exact model of phone they're rebadging if you search for its oddball screen resolution, I just grabbed the name of the first miniphone that looked similar.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by Arnt »

gillesjacobs wrote: post #12

Seems great for the prison phone market! Even though it is on the larger side and will be quite uncomfortable to fit. There is are while (mostly Chinese) lines of phones made for smuggling [1]. Seems like a stretch that it has a lot of appeal outside of that market. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zngpz4/prison-phones-that...

This isn't a prison phone — prison phones need to charge quickly and run for days on one charge.

This is for people who want to fit the phone in a pocket, and don't want to use it often. The kind of person who needs to have google authenticator available, and wants to never ever spend time browsing instagram. A sort of person I want to be ;)

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by rusk »

jaredandrews wrote: post #3

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?

I had the Atom - cheap phone not even powerful enough to show a heavily javascripted page; it was just about usable, but definitely needs patience and very good eyesight.

Their bundled software is quite glitchy but what I could not forgive, is that they don't provide the source code, which I heard was some kind of a GPL violation but they don't care.

I used it for about 3 or 4 months and then the new SE came out.

Served it's purpose, but looking back, using it feels like it was some sort of penance.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by axegon_ »

A phone like this would be absolutely perfect in my world. Not as a daily phone or a phone at all but rather a bicycle computer with extended features. Shoving a 5-6-7 inch screen on the handlebar is borderline impossible and and anything but optimal. But something like this could be perfect: exercise tracking, music player, with some additional work you could hook it up to a camera mounted under the seat and have a mirror, which I find extremely useful. Ideally one or two buttons mounted somewhere around the shifters to easily switch between some pre-defined modes(tracking, camera, map, weather, etc.) and it could be absolutely perfect.

Re: Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone

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Post by Klinky »

kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #16
timw4mail wrote: post #8

Wow...100% funded in 175 seconds

This is just "BEST SELLER 3.5 INCH ULTRA SMALL CELL PHONE SLIM ANDROID OEM CHINA UNLOCKED 4G DUAL SIM" on Alibaba with a fingerprint reader and better camera. The same as every single other Jelly product. I'll never understand kickstarter. edit: you're probably able to find the exact model of phone they're rebadging if you search for its oddball screen resolution, I just grabbed the name of the first miniphone that l…

I don't think this is the case. It has a decent P60 SoC w/ 6GB of RAM and Android 10 support. None of the mini phones I could find on Alibaba were anywhere close in spec. Even the term you highlighted was for 3.5" screen, not 3.0" screen.
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