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The Nokia N9500 phone is about 1" thick, but has a QWERTY keyboard and practically a phone in the lid.
I have an Android 5.1.1 Huawei that is as thin or thinner than any Kindle and same thickness as an almost new TCL. There is a little notch near one corner for a finger nail. Cover pops off and you can pop out the battery, swap SD card or SIM. FM Radio, & 3.5mm jack. Micro USB O2G. Even without SIM it's a nice music player, FM Radio and what ever apps loaded before it lost Playstore. As it's less than 8.x Google/Alphabet won't be blocking 3rd party APKs via USB.
A replaceable battery isn't hard. The 30 m waterproof watch has user replaceable cell.
We are going backwards. Cory Doctorow's word for it is now in some dictionaries.
The Electricity Smart meters in Ireland use 2G/EDGE, so I risked buying a 2004 Nokia N9500. Still connects to Web (HTTP only) using Opera. Voice & SMS work. Battery easily replaced and available (used in many phones). The original 2004 battery still goes for several days. There is even Mobipocket on it! No Apple or Google surveillance.
Nokia's first with WiFi and their last true Commmunicator due to internal Politics. Instead of upgrading S80 to touch they went backwards to S60.
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