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Minimal Phone 2: Premium Teaser, Mystery Price
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Marques recaps the Minimal Phone 2 announcement: the sequel to the e-ink focused first model now sports an OLED display and a physical QWERTY keyboard, maintaining the brand's deep-black-and-orange minimal aesthetic. Pre-orders open August 10 on Kickstarter. [1] — Marques Brownlee "The Minimal Phone 2 replaces its predecessor's e-paper display with OLED and keeps the physical QWERTY keyboard. The slick teaser video pro…" 56:20 The hosts dissect the launch teaser, a 49-second slow-motion showcase of hardware close-ups with no ambient sound — Ellis, a professional sound designer and the group's resident Minimal Phone superfan, notes that the lack of environmental sound makes it feel like a Blender render animation rather than a physical product video. The group places price bets: Marques guesses $650, Andrew goes $700, David lands on $700. Then Ellis drops the bombshell — he would pay $1,000 (iPhone 17 Pro money) for the Minimal Phone 2 if all the first model's hardware-software integration issues are fixed, stunning the rest of the hosts. Andrew punctures the 'minimal' branding with a killer one-liner: nothing screams minimal like having to carry two phones as a companion device.
The Minimal Phone 2 replaces its predecessor's e-paper display with OLED and keeps the physical QWERTY keyboard. The slick teaser video promises premium hardware, but no price tag has been revealed ahead of an August 10 Kickstarter launch.
The Minimal Phone 2 features OLED display and physical QWERTY keyboard, with full announcement and pre-orders launching August 10 on Kickstarter.
Ellis said he would pay the same price as an iPhone 17 Pro — around $1,000 — for the Minimal Phone 2 if all integration issues from the first model were fixed.
