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userbinator on Sept 23, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (2013)

If you search AliExpress for "mini phone" you'll find plenty. Looks like the price hasn't changed much:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Arrival-Ultra-Thin-AIEK-...

It's amusing to see some of them advertised as being "low radiation", presumably to appeal to the health quacks, but all that phrase connotes in my mind is "bad reception".

Edit: a look inside reveals not much has changed from the one in the article, only the casing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h8Ca-yzKuc

da02 on Sept 23, 2018 | [–]

Have you used these? Any good for receiving and making phone calls?

sm64 on Sept 24, 2018 | | [–]

I wouldn't trust the battery

0db532a0 on Sept 23, 2018 | [–]

According to the page, it even has a small fuselage.

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