While the rest of CD Projekt Red is busy with Cyberpunk 2077, company co-founder Michal Kicinski is bringing a minimalistic mobile phone to Kickstarter. The Mudita Pure is available to pre-order today and "aims to improve your wellbeing" by ditching apps, LCD screens, games, internet, and most most features high up on most shoppers' lists.
What the Mudita Pure does have is a 2.84-inch E-Ink screen, a multi-band global GSM module, its own Mudita OS, tethering functionality, a loudspeaker, a music player for said loudspeaker, and a battery life up to 14 days on standby - those were the days. What has also survived the modern day distraction cull is the Medita Pure's meditation timer - or 'timer' as it's more commonly known - which will ensure you never miss a yoga session or chance to align your chakras.
The phone has been built from the ground up to ensure that you can stay offline when you don't want to be disturbed. That means no internal browser (but it can be used to connect to another device), and a slider on the side that shifts from connected to do not disturb or offline.
The phone itself is 14 x 1.4 x 59cm and has been designed to look like... a pebble. It's plain and simple, essentially. It's also rather stylish in its simplicity.
You can pick up the
Mudita Pure on Kickstarter right now starting at $221, discounted from the full retail price of $369, and the campaign will likely be funded by the time I finish writing this sentence.