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’ve seen a lot of people on the web being interested in acquiring a small size phone and/or a dumb phone and during my research I found about this Xiaomi subsidiary called QIN that have recently dropped what basically look like the best dumbphone "qin f22 (actually runs android unlike Nokia garbage dumbphones) " and the best small size phone (5 inches ) “qin 3” on the market.
I haven’t bought any of the above since I can’t currently afford any of them but I know quality when I see it, and I doubt a new company that only sell such niche products would want to destroy its image by sending bad products.
I am not affiliated in any way, just wanted to share the end result of my several days long search for a dumbphone to play java games again .
I’m hoping this becomes real someday. https://smallandroidphone.com/
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!
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.
Not a dumbphone, but Unihertz makes some actually small phones - like ones that can fit completely in your palm. These things are great to have as a backup phone, or something you can take with you while you go out for a run or the gym.
https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series