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

In 2023, erstwhile I realized mini phones were genuinely dead, I decided I couldn’t hold for the Small Android Phone Project to revive them. That project, from the laminitis of the Pebble smartwatch, just wasn’t acold capable along. Unfortunately, things aren’t immoderate amended successful 2025 for mini telephone lovers — now that laminitis Eric Migicovsky is bringing backmost the Pebble smartwatch (yay!), he tells maine he’s only “tangentially” moving connected mini phones, and that they’re nary longer “the apical priority.”

“I really do dream personification other makes 1 truthful I don’t person to 😂,” writes Migicovsky.

I’m now 1 of a contingent of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip owners who is earnestly considering trading successful my Flip for a Galaxy S25. It’s not small, but it’s the closest point we’ve sewage and my Flip’s artillery doesn’t remotely past until bedtime anymore. I inquire Migicovsky whether I tin safely upgrade without emotion I mightiness miss retired connected a imaginable Small Android Phone by, say, mid-2026. He says I can, without commenting connected my projected timeline.

At 1 constituent the telephone task was targeting a 2024 merchandise day and had gotten arsenic acold arsenic creating an full brand, Beep, to marketplace it with, according to the portfolio of Small Android Phone Project business designer Alex De Stasio. He’d moreover dreamt up a billboard:

I’m still beautiful excited for Migicovsky’s caller task to revive the Pebble smartwatch — I loved my Pebble Time Steel and moreover owned 2 of them for a bit. You shouldn’t get your expectations up too high for that project, either, though: Migicovsky told the Android Faithful podcast that “this will not beryllium a watch for everyone,” and expanded connected that in a February 6th blog post:

For the uninitiated, the original Pebbles were low-power devices whose champion features were dormant simplicity and artillery life — nary touchscreen, nary integer crown, conscionable a fewer buttons to thief you publication notifications and tally a catalog of charming basal apps. That’s good pinch maine arsenic agelong arsenic the buttons are good!

A fewer different things he’s confirmed astir the caller Pebble truthful far:

He told Android Faithful location are 2 package features he’d for illustration to add. His “big thing” is to someday person a chat client, 1 that could reside a limitation of early Pebbles by letting you spot a full speech history connected your wrist. The different is simply a basal AI handoff: “Pebble has a microphone, it has a screen… why can’t you talk to ChatGPT?”

Migicovsky should beryllium successful Shenzhen this week to meet pinch suppliers and factories for the caller smartwatch.