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/
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.
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.
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.