The Minimal Phone 2 encourages you to type, not scroll

New Atlas | Aug 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
  • Los Angeles-based The Minimal Company specializes in stripped-down phones that put just a handful of essential tools in your pocket and leave out the distracting stuff.
  • Good luck putting down a keyboard that looks this inviting.
  • There have been a bunch of different approaches to making phones less of a time-suck: from monochrome screens to basic operating systems that lack social feeds to custom flavors of Android that limit your exposure to distracting apps.