The tear down: Zanco tiny t1 handset

NOT ALL CROWDFUNDING projects succeed. Kickstarter says that just 37 per cent of those that have used its platform have been ‘successful’. But among the failures, those where a product is prototyped, made in volume and then sold are rare. The Zanco tiny t1 is such an outlier. It is also, to date, the world's smallest mobile phone.