The Ikko MindOne is almost too small to be believable, but that’s what makes it so interesting as an AI-powered companion device.
I know that the Clicks Communicator got a lot of love at CES this year. Honestly, it probably deserves most of it — a physical keyboard with a fingerprint reader hidden in the spacebar is a cool design. It wasn’t much of a surprise, though, as we’d heard rumblings about big things out of Clicks leading up to the show.
However, as I wandered the show floor on my last day in Las Vegas, I stumbled upon another tiny little Android device, and I think it might have stolen some of the Communicator’s thunder. It’s called the Ikko MindOne, and it’s exactly the type of quirky little device I love to find at CES.If an iPhone and a Motorola Razr had a baby…
The moment my colleague, Joe Maring, and I rounded the corner on the show floor at CES, the Ikko MindOne immediately caught our eyes. I could describe it as looking like so many other Android phones or AI gadgets, yet it’s not a perfect match for any of them. It’s as if you chopped off the cover screen of a Motorola Razr, shrank an iPhone down into a square, or made the Rabbit R1 practical. It’s kind of awesome.
More specifically, the MindOne is an almost-square Android phone that also runs an Ikko AI operating system with the flip of a virtual switch. That means it comes out of your pocket feeling like the (slightly dated) Android 15 experience you’re already used to, but you can switch to a secondary app drawer that lets you use AI to take meeting notes, help with homework, and create real-time translations.
