The phone – AEROS

The AEROS concept phone standing beside a normal smartphone by a harbour window — The design
A flat back with the camera set into it, so the phone lies still on a table instead of rocking on a lens. Edges wrapped soft, so 12 mm reads thinner in the hand than it does on paper. One camera, one flash, and nothing else back there but the mark.

Two volume keys and the SIM tray on the left, power on the right. And a back that comes off, because a phone you can open is a phone you can keep. A dead battery shouldn't be the end of a device.

Drawn in Kristiansand, because the phone we wanted to own wasn't for sale.

Closer

The same phone, five arguments.

The shape is decided; the tooling isn’t cut. So these are renders, not photographs of a finished phone. Five ways of arriving at the same measurement.

The measurement 100 millimetres. The rest is phone. A bank card is 85.6 mm across. Hold one up — that is very nearly the whole height of this phone.

The concept phone lying still on a bedside table beside a cup of tea and an open book — **The absence** Less screen. More life. Small enough to put down. That was the point before it was a specification.

The concept phone held close, passed between two pairs of hands against a dark background — **The contradiction** Nobody has built a flagship this small. Flagship silicon, a flush camera and a battery you can change yourself — in a body 100 mm tall.

The concept phone resting in one open hand, well clear of the fingertips — **The hand** The whole phone. One hand. Your thumb reaches every corner, and you never shift your grip to answer.

The category The mini flagship. A typical flagship today is about 155 mm tall. The last small one was 131.5 mm, discontinued in 2022. Ours is 100.

The concept phone face down on a bedside table, next to a card wallet and a cup of tea

The everyday

It taps. It pays.

It has NFC, so it taps to pay and opens the doors your card already opens. Being this small shouldn't cost you the things you do every day.

Nothing essential left out for the size.

AEROS One: a home screen of seven apps, the all-apps view, and the quick buttons

Screen recording. The phone around it is a concept illustration.

The software

The part that already exists.

AEROS One is our own layer over Android. Seven apps on the home screen, the ones you actually reach for, in a calm vertical list. Everything else is one search away instead of spread across pages that beg to be scrolled.

It isn't a mock-up of the phone. It is the part of it we have already built.

The hardware is what's left to fund. This part is finished and in real hands.

Targets

Small body. Flagship inside.

A pencil sketch of the concept phone seen from behind at an angle: rounded corners, one camera and one flash in the top corner, two keys on the edge

See all specifications

Body 100 × 55 × 12 mm · matte · USB-C
Display 4.3″ OLED · 400+ ppi
Chip MediaTek Dimensity · 5G-class
Camera 20 MP rear · 8 MP front
Battery 3,500 mAh · user-replaceable
SIM eSIM + nano-SIM
Network 5G · 4G · VoLTE
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 6 · hotspot
Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.3
NFC Tap to pay · door access
Sensors Gyro · compass · proximity · light
Software AEROS One · Android

Body100 × 55 × 12 mm · matte · USB-C

Display4.3″ OLED · 400+ ppi

ChipMediaTek Dimensity · 5G-class

Camera20 MP rear · 8 MP front

Battery3,500 mAh · user-replaceable

SIMeSIM + nano-SIM

Network5G · 4G · VoLTE

Wi-FiWi-Fi 6 · hotspot

BluetoothBluetooth 5.3

NFCTap to pay · door access

SensorsGyro · compass · proximity · light

SoftwareAEROS One · Android

Targets for a concept, not a spec sheet for a product. We confirm the final numbers before we ask anyone for the rest of the money.

Back it

Reserve one. That's the whole ask.

One promise: a reservation is a phone in your name, and nothing is charged today. The pledge is collected only when production is fully funded, at $500,000 on the bar. Until that day you can cancel with one click, and if the day never comes, every pledge simply expires. Every dollar pledged moves the bar.

Nothing charged today
No card is even asked for. Your email holds the place.
Cancel anytime
One click, from your confirmation email. No questions.
Never funded? It expires.
If it isn't funded by Dec 31, 2027, every pledge dissolves. Nothing paid.

Reserve your phone $399 a phone in your name, nothing charged today

Fulfilled in pledge order, ahead of the line
All of it comes off the final price
Collected only when production is fully funded. We confirm price and specs before collection

Other ways to back this

Follow the build instead. Email only, no commitment.

You pledge
Your email holds your place. Nothing is charged, no card asked. One click in your inbox confirms it, and it lands on the bar.
Production is funded
The day the bar reaches $500,000, you get a secure payment link. Complete it, and your place keeps its original date. The money goes straight into tooling.
Phones ship in waves
In pledge order. First in line, first to buy. Deliveries start up to six months after funding.

A reservation is a pledge: nothing is charged until production is fully funded at $500,000, you can cancel anytime until then, and if that day never comes by December 31, 2027, every pledge simply expires · Terms

Or, honestly, close the tab and go enjoy your day. That's kind of the point. We'll be here.

Fair questions

Asked & answered.

What exactly am I reserving?

A phone that doesn't exist yet, in your name, fulfilled ahead of the line. You pledge $399 today but pay nothing. The pledge is collected only when production is fully funded at $500,000, and all of it comes off the final price. We confirm the price and the specs before collection, and you can cancel the pledge at any time until then, one click. After collection it's committed; the question below explains why.

When would it ship?

Deliveries start up to six months after production is funded: tooling, certification and a production run, in that order. That is an honest target, not a guarantee. If anything moves, you'll hear it from us first, with reasons.

What happens if the campaign doesn't get there?

Nothing, and that's the point. We never took your money, so there is nothing to give back. If production isn't fully funded by December 31, 2027, every pledge simply expires. You don't need to do anything, and you never pay anything.

And if we do get there: we collect the pledges, and that money goes straight into tooling, where it's spent. From collection your backing is committed. We can't refund it on request, and if we never reach production we won't be able to give it back. What we will do is publish exactly where every dollar went. You should know that before you pledge, not after.

Why is the funding goal different from what I read?

The goal itself hasn't moved. It has been $500,000 throughout. What changed, on 8 August 2026, is when we collect: the campaign used to take payment at an earlier, partial stage, and now nothing is collected until the full amount is reached. If you read about us before that date, the smaller figure you saw was that first stage, not the target.

Nobody was charged under the old structure, and nobody is charged under this one.

Why should I believe a drawing?

You shouldn't, on its own. But the software isn't a drawing. AEROS One is our own, and it already runs on AEROS Juno, a small Android phone we sell in Scandinavia today. It's the part of this phone we've already built and finished; the hardware is what's left, and that's what you're funding.

Haven't you already made a phone?

We sell AEROS Juno in Scandinavia. It runs AEROS One, the same interface you see here, and that is the point: the software is not a drawing. Juno is a small Android phone built on an existing platform. The phone on this page is our own design, and it does not exist yet. Two different objects, one piece of software.

Will it work where I live?

Certification for the US and the EU is written into the plan above, and it's a large part of what the money is for. We publish the exact country and carrier list before anything ships. If it turns out not to include your network, you get your money back even after collection.

Is anything for sale here right now?

No. The phone doesn't exist yet, so it isn't for sale. You can reserve one, and nothing is charged until production is funded.

Who are you, actually?

AEROS is a Norwegian technology company. No investors, no venture money. What we build is paid for by the people who want it.

AEROS · St. Olavs vei 9, 4631 Kristiansand, Norway
Org. no. 937501463 · kontakt@aeros.no

Why crowdfunding instead of investors?

By choice. We'd rather owe a phone to a person than a return to a fund.