{"id":13223,"date":"2026-01-02T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/minimal-phone-pioneer-punkt-is-back-with-a-new-privacy-focused-model-at-ces\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:57:37","slug":"minimal-phone-pioneer-punkt-is-back-with-a-new-privacy-focused-model-at-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/minimal-phone-pioneer-punkt-is-back-with-a-new-privacy-focused-model-at-ces\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimal phone pioneer Punkt is back with a new privacy-focused model at CES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Swiss minimal phone pioneer Punkt is back with another model, the MC03. The new handset continues Punkt’s focus on privacy, security and digital minimalism.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen Punkt’s MP01 and MP02, the company’s gorgeously minimal dumb phone line, they’re something to behold. (The MP01 is quite literally a museum piece, in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) Meanwhile, this new MC03 is the company’s second stab at a more practical touchscreen smartphone, following 2023’s MC02. What you lose in physical beauty and tactile buttons, you gain in flexibility.<\/p>\n

As before, the smartphone runs the privacy- and security-focused AphyOS, based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The fork on the MC03 appears to borrow a page from the Light Phone line. Its UI includes a Light Phone-adjacent row of text for the most common shortcuts, like mail, contacts and calendar.<\/p>\n

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