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New York —
At my local coffee shop a couple of weeks ago, I overheard one 20-something woman say to another: Could I ask, what kind of phone do you have?
The other woman replied: Oh yeah, it’s a Jelly Star…
I started Googling while they gabbed.
The conversation was brief, but they talked about the phone the way you might when you compliment a stranger’s boots: So cool, are they comfortable, where did you get them, I want a pair.
Jelly Star is a credit-card size smartphone that runs on Android. It does all the things that feel required in modern life: emails, calls, texts, GPS. But the 3-inch screen is so tiny — about half the size of the average smartphone — there’s almost no point in trying to stare at it for longer than a few s
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