{"id":10007,"date":"2026-11-05T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:58:37","slug":"big-tech-abandoned-the-small-phone-the-enough-phone-wants-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10007","title":{"rendered":"Small Phones Have Vanished. Enough Phone Wants to Bring Them Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Austin Boer, Brennan Jordan, and William Stults are the trio behind the Enough Phone. Boer and Jordan manage Sleke\u2014a company founded in 2024 that sells refurbished Google Pixel smartphones running its restricted OdysseyOS, which lets users access utility apps like Uber, Google Authenticator, and Spotify, but strips away social media, games, browsers, and anything else designed to keep you glued to your screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Stults, on the other hand, helps run an ecommerce platform called <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/dumbwireless.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/dumbwireless.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/dumbwireless.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dumbwireless<\/a>, founded with his girlfriend. The duo vet dumb phones on the market and sell them on the platform alongside a wireless plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/exclusive-motorola-phones-now-get-a-built-in-travel-esim\/\" class=\"text link\">powered by Gigs<\/a> to make switching to a dumb phone as frictionless as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Stults met Boer and Jordan years ago through Dumbwireless, which carries the Sleke Phone. Sleke&#8217;s approach was entirely software-based, as it upcycles Google Pixel phones, but a smartphone with a dumbed-down operating system doesn&#8217;t need much screen space. Stults also liked that, out of all the dumb phones he&#8217;s tried, Sleke&#8217;s OdysseyOS has the least friction\u2014you can still access many of the apps necessary to get through the day, like Uber, Spotify, and WhatsApp. You don&#8217;t have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/dumbphone-owners-have-literally-lost-their-minds\/\" class=\"text link\">go cold turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Once the major mobile players made it clear they no longer wanted to bother with small phones, the idea for the Enough Phone was born. Boer, Jordan, and Stults have no direct experience in the smartphone or feature phone industry (though a few of Sleke&#8217;s engineers do). When I asked what each of their roles is, Jordan said they haven&#8217;t given each other titles yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Enough Phone is a 5.3-inch Android handset with a polycarbonate build. It looks simple\u2014it only comes in black\u2014but you&#8217;ll notice the four Torx screws on the back. Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/review\/fairphone-gen-6\/\" class=\"text link\">Fairphone<\/a>, you can remove those screws and replace the phone\u2019s battery, in compliance with upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/european-ruling-iphone-batteries-replaceable\/\" class=\"text link\">European Union regulations<\/a>. The phone is 12 millimeters thick to accommodate a chunky battery\u2014around 3,500 to 4,000 mAh, as the company is still finalizing some specs\u2014for \u201call-day\u201d battery life. That\u2019s pretty thick for a phone; the iPhone 13 Mini is a little more than half that thickness, and the iPhone 17 measures 7.8 mm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/big-tech-abandoned-the-small-phone-the-enough-phone-wants-to-save-it\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Boer, Brennan Jordan, and William Stults are the trio behind the Enough Phone. 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