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The Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screens

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In short

The hardware project crossed the halfway mark of its $250,000 funding target within twenty-four hours of going live. Backers will be able to choose between standard stock Android and OdysseyOS, a distraction-free operating system designed to limit screen time. The $599 device features modest modern specifications, a user-replaceable battery, and five years of guaranteed software support. Although the team is entering the tooling phase, an ongoing component crunch could disrupt their planned May 2027 delivery date.

Key points

  • A boutique smartphone venture is attempting to revive the compact mobile phone category a…: A boutique smartphone venture is attempting to revive the compact mobile phone category abandoned by larger tech brands.
  • System software choices will include standard stock Android alongside the minimalist, dis…: System software choices will include standard stock Android alongside the minimalist, distraction-reducing OdysseyOS platform.
  • Severe chip and memory shortages in 2026 threaten the manufacturing timeline ahead of the…: Severe chip and memory shortages in 2026 threaten the manufacturing timeline ahead of the planned May 2027 release.

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It’s a bad time and maybe also a great time to make a new smartphone.

The Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screens

It’s a little phone with a big challenge ahead of it.

It’s a little phone with a big challenge ahead of it.

Brennan Jordan and Austin Boer are two-thirds of the trio behind the Enough Phone, a small phone that will run your choice of stock Android or the minimalist OdysseyOS. They’re currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, and just a day after launching, the project is over halfway to its $250,000 goal.

The Enough Phone’s target specifications include a 5.3-inch display, 3,500mAh user-replaceable battery, MediaTek Dimensity 7500 chipset, a 50-megapixel Sony sensor in the rear camera, and 8GB of RAM. The dimensions listed on the Kickstarter page suggest an iPhone Mini-ish size; Jordan and Boer also happen to be former iPhone Mini users themselves.

The two of them cofounded a software startup called Sleke, which sells refurbished phones loaded with OdysseyOS, their minimalist, low-distraction version of Android. Putting the software on…

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