Dec 9, 2022 3 min read

Friday, December 9, 2022

It's Friday! Thus: Wolmania.

Good morning. How's everything going? Let me know in the comments.

Item 1: a link

May I interest you in the World's Stupidest, Smallest Smartphone?

When you use this phone in public, people will want to talk to you about it. The most common question is “what is that” or “is that, like, a real phone” or, in the case of my immediate friends and family, “Dan … why.” But I’ve handed the Jelly 2 to people and after they mess with it a little, they’re also taken in by how charming and teensy it is. They’re sometimes impressed with it, too, though I don’t get the sense that very many would consider actually buying one.

This phone is shockingly non-shitty. It is clear when using this phone that Unihertz is a very, very powerful company, filled with engineers with powerful brains; I don’t know if Apple or Samsung or Google could have made this thing. What it also means is that Unihertz is absolutely capable of making an extremely good normal phone, and that they have chosen instead to make Stupid Phone. I admire this.

Really enjoyed this piece from Max Read's newsletter, Read Max, but as a weird consumer technology fanatic, I'm not sure it was a good idea to read it. Feels quite likely that I'll end up with a Unihertz Jelly 2 that I extremely don't need.

Item 2: a list

Special submission this week from Wolmania's Venezuala correspondent, Emiliana D., who has scoured international football to determine, objectively...