The concept phone shown front and back beside a current flagship, in a concrete hall
A flagship that fits one hand

We're building a flagship mini phone.

A hundred millimetres tall, with nothing taken out to get it there.

Designed for less screen time.

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  • 100 mm
  • Replaceable
  • NFC
The campaign

262 want AEROS Centi to exist.

$103,538
Pledged so far

21% of the $500,000 goal

$396,462 to go.

Concept render
The concept phone going into a corduroy jacket pocket, autumn light
The idea

Less screen. More life.

A phone you can use with one hand and put down again. Everything you actually reach for, in something that stops asking for the rest of your evening.

The concept phone, front and back, on a plain white ground
Why this exists

Screens doubled. Nothing small stayed flagship.

The average phone screen has increased since 2012. We want to change that. The smallest flagship you can buy today is around 6.1″, so a phone that genuinely fits one hand costs you something to get.

Phones got bigger because bigger sold. More screen, more to look at, more reasons to pick it up again. Nobody set out to build something you would check two hundred times a day — it happened one inch at a time, and everyone followed.

We think the size is the feature. A phone that fits one hand is a phone you put down. Everything you actually reach for is in it — camera, payments, maps, messages — and nothing that wants your evening. That is what designed for less screen time means here: not an app that counts your hours, but a phone that never asked for them.

The features we care about.

  • 4.3″ OLED The screen. Big enough to read on, small enough to put down.
  • Point-and-press camera It opens ready. Nothing to choose before the photo, nothing to fix after it.
  • 100 × 55 × 12 mm A hundred millimetres tall, so it disappears into a pocket instead of your evening.
  • NFC, tap to pay The one thing a small phone cannot do without.
  • Replaceable battery The back comes off. A flat cell, not a new phone.
  • AEROS One Seven apps on the home screen. Nothing lights up, buzzes, or wears a red number.

Targets for a concept, not a spec sheet for a product.

In a randomised controlled trial published in BMC Medicine, 111 participants cut their phones to two hours a day for three weeks, and measured improvements in depressive symptoms, stress, sleep quality and well-being.

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The object

Small enough to forget.

That's the whole idea.

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Who we are

Who's actually behind this.

Tor Oveland Vimme Tor, founder

I grew up alongside two things at once: the internet finding its feet, and the smartphone becoming the thing everybody carried. Apple redefined the industry with software that was radically simple. HTC kept challenging what a phone was even shaped like. LG was bending screens.

Most of that variety is gone. Phones settled into one rectangle, the software settled into one pattern, and the interesting questions stopped being asked. I started AEROS because I missed them.

  • Around us

    The design has been written about in Wallpaper*. We compare notes with other founders building hardware; several are further along than we are.

  • The company

    Norwegian, run out of Kristiansand, and deliberately small — most of what it does, it does alongside people who have done it before.

  • The software

    AEROS One is our own, and it already runs on AEROS Juno — a small Android phone we sell in Scandinavia today, and where the software has been proving itself while this one is designed.

  • The manufacturing

    We don't run a factory. A partner who has built phones for over a decade will make it. Certification and compliance we handle ourselves, from Norway.

  • The money

    No investors, no board, and no growth target set by someone who has never used the product. It's paid for by the people who want it.

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