Telegotchi. Device + mesh puck + paracord lanyard.
Issued, not bought.
Telegotchi. Device + mesh puck + paracord lanyard.
This is not a phone. There is no app store. No Google. No Apple. No applications to download. No notifications from things you never asked for. No feed. No scroll. No algorithm. No surveillance. Just a means to increase presence and real human connection.
Think of it as a walkie talkie. An extraordinarily intelligent one. You press a button. You talk. Someone hears you. That is the interaction.
Every contact you have is reachable — whether they have a Telegotchi or not. They just need Telegram, which a billion people already have.
| PROCESSOR | MediaTek Helio G99 — fast enough, nothing wasted |
| DISPLAY | 3 inches — deliberately small |
| FORM FACTOR | Credit card size. Fits in a closed fist. |
| PTT BUTTON | Physical. Hardware. The only trigger for your voice. |
| MICROPHONE | One. Gated to the PTT button. Never ambient. |
| CAMERAS | None. Removed entirely. Cannot photograph you. |
| FINGERPRINT | None. Removed. PIN authentication only. |
| LED LIGHT | None. Removed. Nothing designed to pull your attention. |
| NFC | None. Removed. No contactless payment tracking. |
| BATTERY | 2000mAh — days of standby on a voice-first device |
| MESH PUCK | LoRa 868MHz, Meshtastic-compatible, 1–10km range |
| CONNECTIVITY | 4G LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth 5.3 |
| GPS | On-device, user-controlled, can be fully disabled |
| STORAGE | 8GB RAM, 256GB |
| OS | Android — locked, sideloaded, no Play Store, no Google |
| DIMENSIONS | 3-inch screen. Smaller than your wallet. |
| IN THE BOX | Device. Mesh puck. Paracord lanyard. That is it. |
Voice notes. Send and receive. Every Telegram contact reachable whether they have a Telegotchi or not. Incoming messages are read aloud in a voice. Long press to reveal the transcript. No typing required. Ever.
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Signal contacts bridged via notification — reply by voice without leaving the Telegotchi environment.
Claude lives at the top of your contact list. Press PTT. Ask anything. It searches the web in real time and speaks back to you in a voice.
Set reminders by voice. Take notes by voice. Get your emails summarised as a morning briefing. Ask it anything you would ask a very intelligent, very discreet assistant.
Your voice is processed locally. Text only reaches the API. Anthropic has never heard your voice. Nobody has.
Whisper STT runs on a Mac Mini you own, on your local network. Your audio never reaches the internet.
Piper TTS converts responses to speech on the same machine. No ElevenLabs. No cloud voice synthesis. No corporate server has ever heard you speak.
Ollama handles routine AI tasks locally. Claude API receives text only — never audio, never your voice, never anything that identifies you.
The microphone activates when you press the button. It stops when you release it. Hardware, not software. Verifiable, not promised.
The puck on your lanyard is always on. Always relaying. Even in your bag. Even when the screen is off.
Three layers of connectivity:
| WIFI DIRECT | 250m+ — No extra hardware |
| BLUETOOTH LE | 50m — Presence and discovery |
| LORA | 10km — The puck. Off-grid. Always on. |
Joins the global Meshtastic network — tens of thousands of existing nodes worldwide. At a festival. In a disaster zone. In the mountains. In a country that has turned the internet off.
It finds a way.
Device. Mesh puck. Paracord lanyard.
Yours forever. No subscription required.
Bring your own SIM and API key.
Everything above.
eSIM included. 160+ countries. No identity documents.
Claude API costs covered.
Cancel anytime.
Everything above.
3GB international data.
Priority mesh node status.
For journalists, activists, field teams.
No subscription is required to use Telegotchi. The device works fully without one. Subscriptions cover connectivity and API costs only.