GRAF

There is no microphone on the board.

Graf One is a pocket terminal for calls and messages to Graf usernames. The only microphone it has is in the headset, on the end of a cable. Unplug the cable and the device is physically incapable of hearing the room. You do not have to take our word for this. You can take the back off and look.

$299 to early backers against $599 retail, or $249 each for two. Your address, and nothing else — no name, no country, no tracker. Used once, to tell you it is open.

Microphone
Headset only
Speaker
None
Camera
None
Baseband
None
IMEI
None
Bluetooth
None
Graf One, a small anodised aluminium terminal, screen showing a scrambled PIN keypad.

50 × 62 × 7 mm · 54 g · 2.4″ IPS 240 × 320 · TRRS + USB‑C · Wi‑Fi only

The headset jack, ring unlit.
Unplugged — no path from the room
The headset jack, ring lit teal.
Plugged — a microphone is attached

A ring you can read across a table

A machined ring circles the headset jack. It is lit by the jack's own detect switch — a mechanical contact that closes when a plug is seated. No software decides whether it glows. Lit means a microphone is attached. Dark means there is no path from the room to anything. It is the only colour on the product, and it means one thing.

Built by subtraction

No speaker, so a conversation cannot leak into the room. No camera. No cellular baseband and no IMEI, so there is no carrier record and no tower to associate you with a place. No Bluetooth. No app store, and no way to install anything. Wi‑Fi, a screen, and a jack.

What that costs you

It is not a phone. It cannot call phone numbers. It needs Wi‑Fi, and the network can see that you connected to it, though not to whom you spoke or what was said.

Setup happens on a computer over a cable, because a device this small should never ask you to type a password on it.

And it holds about two days of standby, not a week. Staying on Wi‑Fi so it can ring is what costs the battery.

Nothing on it can be shoulder-surfed

The keypad's digits are in different positions every time you unlock it, so watching your fingers tells an observer nothing and the smudges on the glass tell them less. A second PIN opens a second, real profile and destroys the first.

The screen is grey and black; it holds no colour, no logo and no notification you did not ask for.

Graf One seen face-on, the scrambled keypad filling the screen.

It arrives sealed, with a screwdriver

Every unit ships under a fibre seal whose photograph and code are published to your account the day it is packed. Compare them before you cut it. Inside, taped to the card, is the driver for the four screws in the back — because a claim about what is not inside a device is only worth anything if you are invited to check.

Tell me when it launches.

It goes to Indiegogo shortly. The early tier is limited, and this list hears first — one email, on the day it opens.

Graf messenger

Graf One · $299 early backer · $249 each for two · $599 retail · invite-only
Schematics and firmware hashes published at graf.chat/one/teardown