What Is The Enough Phone?

This is the Andres Segovia Show. Hey everyone, it's Andres and I'm coming at you with another video. In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the Enough Phone billed as Return of the Small. And the only thing we got to go on is what's here on the homepage about what the proposed design of this device might be. And it looks to be about 5.2 inches high compared to a 6.7 inch phone right behind it. I'm assuming that's a normal sized iPhone. Now, you're probably wondering why even cover this. It's not even on Kickstarter yet. But the thing is, there have been some updates going on for the team over at Enough. They have shared a couple of updates on their blog and are even vlogging their their progress. And it's all put here on their blog. So this is their blog post. We're making a small smartphone. So we are Will, Austin and Brennan. And I'm assuming that's the order of the guys that are standing there. After years of watching phones get bigger and bigger with almost no small phones available, we decided to create a premium small smartphone. Some of you might remember that the big dogs have tried this before. Apple, Samsung, Sony, those guys couldn't break through. Is there really a market? That's a question to be answered. But let's see what they're saying. We're making a phone that is comfortable to use with one hand, is built with premium components, has a good battery life, takes great photos. Supports both Android and a minimal dumb phone operating system. That's going to be interesting. Doesn't cost a gazillion dollars. And that's the thing. That's what everybody wishes they could do. And there's a lot of people that have attempted this to varying degrees of success and mostly failure. So if these guys are doing this right and I'm assuming that they know some people within the industry that can better guide them here, then they'll know just how difficult this is going to be, especially when the big dogs are charging more money for RAM, because right now with this whole A.I. scramble and everybody's trying to get into it, accessing RAM is becoming less and less affordable for anybody trying to keep the cost down on a device. So that's going to be interesting. So as the post continues, once we decided to make the phone, we quickly found a manufacturing partner, met them at CES in January and drafted a specification that got us excited. We traveled to Shenzhen to visit manufacturers, factories and offices. After two visits and many rounds of revisions with the factory we met at CES, we locked in a spec that had kicked off R&D, which means research and development. And if you're interested in a small premium Android smartphone, sign up at enoughphone.co and tell your friends updates are coming. So that's one of the blog posts. The other one is manufacturing the enough phone. I'm not going to read that one for you. This is where they created a vlog of sorts. So let me see. Here's what the timeline that's that's of notes. Note the following are conservative best guess guesstimates based on the most likely scenario, the memory shortage caused by the PC. I just mentioned that the boom in A.I. investment has not only effectively transferred components, but has also made ripple effects across the entire electronics manufacturing industry. Yep, we feel confident in our time, in our timeline. But in the interest of transparency, the following figures are subject to change pending unforeseen circumstances. So we already passed July, July 2026, their ID design created. So for August 2026, they're going to have a dummy prototype created. And for December 2026, they're expecting to have research and development complete and working samples delivered. So their intention is by March 2027 to have the production to begin and hopefully shipping by April. I can tell you that is conservative, but I also feel it's a little aggressive. So they say we need your help. We've come from two small companies with real experience in the smartphone industry, dumb, wireless and sleek. We are confident in our ability to execute, but we can't find production entirely on our own. So for their plan to build a list of motivated buyers, keep everyone updated through development and launch a Kickstarter to place the bulk order. We need 2000 plus people on board to make this happen. If you want a small premium Android smartphone to actually exist, sign up at enough on that comment to your friends. And this only gets built if we do it together. So that's at least they're acknowledging that part. They want to plan this out. But without any support, that's where I think they're going to find the biggest mountain to climb. But let me go over to what they were recapping on some of their their blog here. So they tour one of the factories. They see the processes. They go to another one. And there was one where they were not allowed to film. But they get to see the what goes into making these components and stuff. But I'm assuming one of these might be the fact that they ended up they end up choosing to work with. They had some closing thoughts. But I guess I'm not going to put it in thoughts. But the point is, you can actually see this video for yourself. This video was posted. Let's see. July 8, 2026. It has at least 1400 views as of this moment. And they have 128 subscribers to their channel. This is, I think, the only video as of right now on their channel. But if you're curious, you can go check out their stuff. But let's take a look at once again what they're proposing. And that's this. They're proposing this small phone. And what they've expressed is that they want to manufacture a premium smartphone, something that's comfortable to use in the hand. Roughly 5.3 inches diagonal screen, 5.2 inches high, 2.5 inches wide, built with premium components, has good battery life, takes great photos and doesn't cost a gazillion dollars. How much would this realistically cost? And I cannot imagine this thing costing any less than 500 dollars, assuming they're able to build out to scale. They have that much interest in this to get it going. And that's assuming that they have a software to tie into this. So one of the guys said that, I don't know, one or some of them worked for a company called Sleek. So that company is this one. The company Sleek and they have an operating system called Odyssey OS. Odyssey OS is an operating system that runs our phone, our phone. I'm assuming. What's our phone? All I did was just open this and click Sleek. Less phone, more life, which is the phone. So I guess this is a sleek phone. Oh, there is a sleek phone. There it is. So it looks like it's an existing thing. I might have to do a separate video just to talk about the sleek phone, because it's the first I hear about it. So Odyssey OS is a modified version of AOSP with a strong foundation of privacy and security features. Odyssey OS is default de-googled with an option to use micro G to utilize Google Play services, has a custom launcher and has system level domain blocking of disallowed apps. We call it Odyssey OS because we take inspiration from Odysseus, the hero in the ancient Greek epic poem, the Odyssey. I'm not talking about the movie, but I know everybody's talking about that. So anyway, so that's what apparently it exists. So they do have the phone there. And oh, so these are, I guess, refurbished versions of pixels. So they have they call it the phone, the phone, pixel seven, pixel eight and pixel nine. And these all look to be in the works, not exactly available. It says early version release or early release version. So that means that means what exactly? They're shipping by September. OK, so when I see this, the first thing that jumps out at me is, you know, iPhone mini because the specifications are very, very close to it. And even the candy form factor is just reminiscent of it. So are you guys interested in a small device? Is there a market for a small device? We're seeing form factors of all sorts out there. That's all I got to say about the enough phone. You get to go learn more about it at enough phone dot com. Just on the top right, click news. As of this recording, there's only two blog posts up there and there is a vlog series that they're doing. The last episode that they put in, the only episode that I know of was July 8th. It'll be interesting to see. I'll be tracking this project with some interest. But if the guys want to reach out and talk about this with me, you're more than welcome on the show. Thank you so much for watching this episode of The Andres Segovia Show. Remember to follow me across socials at The Andres Segovia on Twitter underscore Andres Segovia. Anything or anything about me is that the Andres Segovia dot com. See you next time.