It’s me, your friendly, neighborhood tech curmudgeon coming to playfully rain on your parade. This time around I’m bringing some of the Laptop Mag staff along for the hate fest. Today’s target is Pebble and murmurings that they’re looking to make their own smartphone to fill the tiny hole left by the absence of the iPhone 13 mini. The founder of the discontinued smartwatch company, Erik Migicovsky, spearheaded a petition for someone, anyone to make a small form factor smartphone.
Since then, what started as the Small Smartphone Petition, which got close to 39,000 signatures has evolved into what’s being described by The Verge as a “community-based project.” The SAP team currently has a Discord channel where the tiny phone fanatics are feverishly planning to begin sourcing for various phone components including the display, chipset and more. The biggest standout about this dream phone is a distinctive camera that Ben Bryant, one of the team leads and former Pebble alum, is envisioning with a 100-megapixel sensor.
