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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by bee_rider on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:25PM (#31415264)
I think this is not exactly what GP was talking about. These are normal phones with an expensive marketing gimmick.

The "RED Hydrogen One," by that fancy camera company is closer I think. At least it had some story that could hypothetically have ended with a compelling technological reason for it to exist (RED is supposed to know cameras). Although, it didn't seem to work out either, but with a sample size of 1 it could be a fluke of poor execution.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/red-quits-the-smartp...

I'm surprised none of the really consumer-oriented camera companies have broken into smartphones. Camera stuff seems like more of a selling point for smartphones, than phone stuff. But, it seems like they never really want to dive in fully.

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by Tijdreiziger on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:18PM (#31416405)
Leica tried making one in Japan, but apparently camera cameras and smartphone cameras are somewhat different beasts.

I enjoyed MrMobile's review: https://youtu.be/skIgG8q_lKs

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by bee_rider on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:59PM (#31416793)
Yeah, this came up when I was looking around. I'd call it a case of not diving in fully. Since it is really just a rebrand of a phone from some other company (albeit one for which they provided the optics).
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