Posting just for no particular reason from the top of my head. My current hall of fame of obscure and not so popular smartphones to date. Compact phone for city: [Sony XZ1 Compact] [4.7"] [mention] Compact rugged device: [Ulefone Armor Mini 20 Pro] [4.7"] [mention] Modern cameraphone: [Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max] [6.9"] [mention] Cameraphone relic: [Nokia PureView 808] [4"] [mention]

₪ SOME PREFACE WORDS Since so-called triple A cellphones companies like apple, samsung and xiaomi, don’t give a sh#t about any innovation, and make huge shovel shaped smartphones i was forced to explore the models of not so well-known companies, like Ulefone. Luckily i was able to find out [really interesting device] it is on a smaller side [very rare thing these days] and has larger battery and more over it is ruggerized.

Considering the fact that world is going completly mad the most important features for smartphone will be reability, long running time and neat network reception. In such scenario [Sonim XP8] is a perfect phone because it has interchangable battery, strong millitary protection and it is almost indestructible. Device is based around [Android 8.1] , so telemetry is minimal, but nerual networks is already there [in their rudimentary state]. So rooting phone and installing [neat ip-tables firewall] and [root-based hosts adblocker] will solve problem like there was no any.