Don’t wait around for Pebble founder’s Small Android Phone

In 2023, when I realized small phones were truly dead, I decided I couldn’t wait for the Small Android Phone Project to revive them. That project, from the founder of the Pebble smartwatch, just wasn’t far enough along. Unfortunately, things aren’t any better in 2025 for small phone lovers — now that founder Eric Migicovsky […]

Feb 11, 2025 - 11:56
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Don’t wait around for Pebble founder’s Small Android Phone
Artist’s depiction of a phone shrinking, with a progressively smaller hand and smaller phone inside.

In 2023, when I realized small phones were truly dead, I decided I couldn’t wait for the Small Android Phone Project to revive them. That project, from the founder of the Pebble smartwatch, just wasn’t far enough along. Unfortunately, things aren’t any better in 2025 for small phone lovers — now that founder Eric Migicovsky is bringing back the Pebble smartwatch (yay!), he tells me he’s only “tangentially” working on small phones, and that they’re no longer “the top priority.”

“I really do hope someone else makes one so I don’t have to