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Build a Phone Empire beginner guide

You name a company, stand in a 2007 garage, and ship a phone. The steps below follow the official description plus two 10 October 2026 guides.

Updated 2026-10-24 · How to play and start a company

What I checked

This guide combines the official Roblox description with allthings.how and Roonby, both dated 10 October 2026 and re-read on 24 October. The sample phone, starter cash, two-desk capacity, and cheap starter staff are allthings.how reports, not our playthrough. Roonby supports the research, pricing, staff-cost, and office-upgrade advice.

For the correct game and starting resources, see the game overview and reported codes.

Opening minutes

  1. Join from the Roblox page. allthings.how says you name the company first. I have not confirmed you can skip that.
  2. Reported starter cash is $200,000 (allthings.how, single source). Codes are extra and still unverified in-game.
  3. Place a desk before you hire. allthings.how says staff need a workstation to work. The garage is reported at 2 desks.
  4. allthings.how recommends one cheap researcher and one bug fixer. Researchers are described as the research-point source. Bug fixers clear bugs before launch.
  5. Design one phone, clear bugs, and use the free marketing launch before you spend $40,000 on ads. Details are on the money guide.

First phone parts allthings.how lists

An example from 10 October 2026, not a required build. Pending an in-game check.

PartReported pick
Screen6.1 inch, 320p
CamerasFront camera plus a basic rear camera
ShapeRounded corners, side button
PortMicro USB
Storage / RAM4 GB / 128 MB
CPU / batterySingle core 400 MHz / 1000 mAh
Network / OS2G / RoboOS (RoboOS needs research)

Price and the first studies

allthings.how recommends a margin near 70 percent. If treated as gross margin, ordinary arithmetic gives price = cost / 0.3. Neither that target nor the interpretation is a developer-published demand rule. A larger screen raises unit cost and, according to allthings.how, does not by itself lower the review score.

allthings.how names GPS, Micro USB, and RoboOS as useful early studies, not a tested mandatory order. The official Triple Research pass confirms three projects instead of the default one. Each study spends research points and several in-game days. I do not have a full tree, so later years belong on the research guide.

A 4x speed control is described for development and bug clearing. Roonby warns that speeding time also speeds wages. Read the desk limit guide before you buy the reported $150,000 Small Office.

Mistakes the same guides flag

  1. Pricing far above or below the reported margin before you have seen one sales reading.
  2. Shipping a second phone on the same parts. Both articles say a repeat design sells worse.
  3. Hiring a crowd into two desks. Staff without a desk do not work.
  4. Skipping the free launch and opening with the $1,300,000 global campaign.
Official Roblox thumbnail of a phone screen, camera module, color row, and price label
Official Roblox promotional thumbnail, not a gameplay capture by this site. Design levers shown on the official art: screen, cameras, colors, price.
Official Roblox thumbnail of six phone backs in pink, orange, gold, green, blue, and black
Official Roblox promotional thumbnail, not a gameplay capture by this site.
PopBloxy (8 October 2026) beginner tutorial. Press play to load YouTube.

Sources

  • Roblox description — 2007 garage, design levers, 28 goals.
  • allthings.how — 10 October 2026. Start cash and sample parts.
  • Roonby — 10 October 2026. Staff costs, repeated technology, research priorities, and Small Office progression gates. Does not supply the 2-to-6 desk counts.
  • Roblox game-pass API — 24 October 2026, 06:53 UTC. Triple Research description confirms three projects instead of one.

FAQ

Do I have to name the company?

allthings.how shows a name at the start (video around 00:32). Whether the tutorial lets you skip it is not stated.

Is $200,000 the real start?

Only allthings.how prints that number. It is not in the games API. Treat it as unconfirmed.

What should I research first?

allthings.how names GPS, Micro USB, and RoboOS for the sample phone. The official text only says research moves year by year.

Keep going

Checked 2026-10-24. Play on Roblox.