Daily Authority: 👉 Small Android phone?

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Pebble man: Who else needs a small Android telephone?

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Eric Migicovsky is the founding father of Pebble, which made neat smartwatches that most likely kickstarted the entire smartwatch trade.

He’s additionally 6’6″.
And regardless of being a giant unit, he needs to make and use a small Android telephone as his every day driver.

He says, on his web site smallandroidphone.com, quote:

“I really like small telephones as a result of they:

matches [sic] properly in pocket
are a lot lighter
are simple to make use of one-handed with out dropping
received’t fall out of my pocket whereas bicycling”

Additionally, Eric Migicovsky doesn’t like iOS, preferring the pliability of Android, which guidelines out the iPhone Mini. And, he principally ywants an iPhone 13 Mini however working Android, and says a worth of round $700-800 is the ballpark.

Possibly you agree with this. Possibly you’re good with a 6.8-inch massive telephone, of which t. are many.
However in case you do, Eric is taking names.
For this challenge to get off the bottom, at the least 50,000 consumers want to show up — a quantity he says will likely be sufficient to persuade a producer to construct and promote a small Android telephone.
In case you’re all in favour of expressing help, t.’s a kind you possibly can fill out that simply seeks some fundamental, non-binding .rmation.
Apparently, 6,000 individuals have signed up already.

Takeaways:

The largest downside with smaller smartphones has been battery life: much less room means much less area for all these mAh you want, even on the iPhone mini.
Migicovsky acknowledges this: however the dimension issues most. Quote: “The drawbacks of a small telephone (smaller display screen, smaller battery) are basically much less of a difficulty than the dimensions, for me at the least.”
My transient remark is that it’s doable Eric is aiming too excessive.
He needs a flagship spec small smartphone with one thing just like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 powering it.
Realistically, that’s an issue. T.’s a trade-off between high-end flagship processors and battery life.
It’s doable one thing like a barely lower-tier Snapdragon 7 collection (which can be introduced in China on Friday?) would supply a greater deal on efficiency vs power consumption.
Nevertheless it’s all very early: the primary factor you may need to take away . is that Eric has a fairly good trade status, together with former Pebble workers saying he was an excellent dude.
And this kind of from-the-ground-up method to a brand new telephone harkens again to the realms of the early smartphone and related machine trade.
Nevertheless it’s a good distance from a bunch of risk-free signups to an precise good machine at an inexpensive worth.
Closing thought: at the least two of the explanations Eric needs a small telephone are solved by clamshell foldables just like the Samsung Z Flip 3. It matches in a pocket fairly nicely! I’d like to listen to why a foldable doesn’t work (aside from the expense, which is truthful!).

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Weirdness Wednesday

At instances like this I need to return and examine biology to determine what’s happening, however .’s the gist: Redwoods develop bizarre leaves to suck water from air (Scientific American).

Timber managing to get some water from a moist atmosphere has been regarded as a truth for some years.
However as one of many staff behind a brand new examine mentioned, “Nobody ever actually found out how the water will get in t..”
What a examine revealed within the American Journal of Botany appears to indicate is that redwoods develop particular leaves that take in much more water, and the bushes adapt relying on their atmosphere.
“The examine discovered that redwoods in drier, southern areas have extra axial shoots which can be situated larger up than on northern bushes, which helps the previous pull additional water from summer time fog and lightweight rain. Different tree species might have equally specialised shoots; pines, for instance, have two sorts that is likely to be analogous to these on redwoods”

Within the picture beneath, the asparagus-like leaf on the fitting absorbs water “at about 4 instances the speed of ordinary-looking “peripheral” shoots.”