Minimal OS, Your WayWe’ve heard from a lot of you who love what we’re building, but want the option to take privacy even further.So we’re making that possible.Minimal Phone 2 will ship with Google services by default, giving you the compatibility most people expect right out of the box, including the Play Store, Google Play Services, banking apps, payments, and everything else that depends on them.But you won’t be locked into that experience.For those who want a de-Googled Minimal Phone 2, we’ll be releasing an official de-Googled version of Minimal OS and providing the full ROM for you to flash yourself.That means you’ll be able to run Minimal OS without Google services while still keeping the experience we’re building around the keyboard, Minimal Hub, Commands, and the rest of the OS.We won’t be shipping a separate de-Googled device. Every Minimal Phone 2 will ship with the standard Google-certified software, and users who want the privacy-focused version will be able to make that choice themselves.One phone.Two paths.Use Google if you want it.Remove it if you don’t.The choice should be yours.
They already existed, no idea how many of them can be flashed to lineageos though.
Not sure why someone would want a physical keyboard either, no doubt there is a reason though.
I think a lot of people are put off by flashing their own phone, so providing the option to purchase this already degoogled would be nice.
I’m more interested in a non-smart phone that still has an on screen keyboard, they seem a bit rarer.
The existing ones were mostly budget models with cheap hardware and terrible software support. I miss the Nokia E71 which had a similar format, I rarely watch videos and typing on touch screen keyboards still sucks, so I would happily give up some screen real estate for a physical KB. I would love one of these, especially if it had semi-official Graphene support.
I’m happy enough with lineageos for now, I just see the possibility/probability of heading towards a non smart phone due to a fascist government… and because I am not that phone orientated anyway.
It comes with googly as default, but they provide a custom rom without google.
The advantage is:
Its finally a phone with a keyboard.
Unihertz is delivering a new one too: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/titan-2-elite-the-5g-keyboard-phone-youve-been-waiting-for
Yeah I like having a keyboard. I miss that.
They already existed, no idea how many of them can be flashed to lineageos though. Not sure why someone would want a physical keyboard either, no doubt there is a reason though.
I think a lot of people are put off by flashing their own phone, so providing the option to purchase this already degoogled would be nice.
I’m more interested in a non-smart phone that still has an on screen keyboard, they seem a bit rarer.
The existing ones were mostly budget models with cheap hardware and terrible software support. I miss the Nokia E71 which had a similar format, I rarely watch videos and typing on touch screen keyboards still sucks, so I would happily give up some screen real estate for a physical KB. I would love one of these, especially if it had semi-official Graphene support.
The blackberry key2, 8 years old can finally run lineage now in 2026… I am typing from this phone…
Then there waas nothing till unihertz came around and is locked.
And now we do have the clicks communicator which is more the influencer type and will be unlockable upon request and this.
But i hope you find a non smart phone… Is android go an option? A phone so slow it cant do stuff?
I had to finally let go of my Key2. Is it worth going back for lineage??
I’m happy enough with lineageos for now, I just see the possibility/probability of heading towards a non smart phone due to a fascist government… and because I am not that phone orientated anyway.