A phone that actually costs less than $100 will make money from something other than its purchase price.

In some markets, that means the carrier subsidizing the phone and charging you a high monthly rate. I would counter that phone service should not cost more than $15/month.

The other thing it might do is preload adware, spyware, or outright malware.

Is it? The article doesn't say that, and I didn't spot any statement either way on the Kickstarter or official website.

I agree the Enough is also too thick. I'd be more interested if they made it 10mm or less at the expense of battery life.

Low volume means higher price.

Except that the Unihertz is 19mm thick.

As seen in this video teardown, the medium inside the rigid plastic case is quite floppy. This is similar to standard 3.5" floppy disks, but the Zip case is a bit more bulky.

What I think the Times analysis misses is that of the two minor candidates, Heikes (R) has more votes (2.3%) than Sullivan (I) (1.7%).

Currently, the AP reports Sullivan (R) at 47.9%. If he got all of Heikes' votes, that's 50.2% and he wins. If Peltola (D) gets all 1.7% from Sullivan (I) added to her 48.2%, that's 49.9%, which does not end the process.

In Peltola's favor is that mail voters tend to lean Democratic and that's most of the uncounted votes. Favoring Sullivan (R) is that he's more likely to be the second choice of someone voting for one of the losers.

There are four candidates on the ballot, so Republicans in third and fourth place was a theoretical possibility before any votes were counted.

Now that most of the first-choice votes have been counted and reported, it is no longer possible. The Republican incumbent Sullivan is currently in second place, and it is not mathematically possible for him to place lower. He and the Democrat Peltola will take first and second.

Either could still get a majority of first-choice votes and win on the first round of counting. If nobody has a majority, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their second choice votes distributed to the remaining candidates. This is repeated until someone has a majority, or only two candidates remain.

At 19mm thick, that is not a small phone at all.

Also not OP, and I'll decline to post my age, but I'm old enough to have used small phones, and I think my previous Sony X Compact was the right size. The Enough is very close to the same dimensions.

I do use my phone to watch video or play games on occasion, and no doubt, bigger phones are better for those things. Better still is my tablet; better than that is my laptop; better than that is a gaming PC with a 32" 4K display and a mechanical keyboard.

The phone's main job is to fit comfortably in my pocket and be easily used one-handed. Making it substantially worse at those jobs so it can be marginally better at the things other devices will always far outclass it in is a fail for me.

What? How old is that peripheral that jacks in?!

I have used all of the following this year:

• Circumaural headphones: new (this year)
• IEM headphones: 2019? 2020?
• Aux ports in various rental and relatives' cars: various
• Professional audio console to play a file for a room full of people because I was the only one with a phone with a headphone jack: doesn't matter - it will have analog inputs whether it's brand new or 50 years old
• Tape adapter in an old van: probably as old as the van (2002)

You use an ⅛-¼" adaptor, don’t you.

I believe that was involved for one of the above items.

For battery capacity, or ergonomics?