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You can still accomplish a lot of what you need from a phone, and pair some AirPods and you have music, podcasts, easy hands free calling
This seems like an oversight
I wonder where this is heading. The original light phone (version 1 if I remember correctly) was simply for calling and very minimalistic. To that I am a bit disappointed that they are adding more features instead of cutting prices.
It's interesting to see exactly that happening in the comments here - "if it only had X, Y and Z I would buy it".
E-ink screen, but the battery life is bad. I can go about a week with mine.
I get this is supposed to be minimalist but the texting interaction looks really rough. You read threaded conversations in portrait mode but to reply it switches you to landscape mode where you can’t see the conversation and can only see the reply you’re typing. Nokia candy bar phones from the mid 90s let me type a reply while looking at what I was replying to. This seems like an oversight
I get this is supposed to be minimalist but the texting interaction looks really rough. You read threaded conversations in portrait mode but to reply it switches you to landscape mode where you can’t see the conversation and can only see the reply you’re typing. Nokia candy bar phones from the mid 90s let me type a reply while looking at what I was replying to. This seems like an oversight
Maybe that’s intentional, so you focus on short messages rather than sprawling conversations.
I get this is supposed to be minimalist but the texting interaction looks really rough. You read threaded conversations in portrait mode but to reply it switches you to landscape mode where you can’t see the conversation and can only see the reply you’re typing. Nokia candy bar phones from the mid 90s let me type a reply while looking at what I was replying to. This seems like an oversight
Then there is this aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thelightphone.com
Which does kinda make you wonder many things, more so, that price. Everything else seems to of been already covered in past discussions over the many many years.
E-ink screen, but the battery life is bad. I can go about a week with mine.
The 950mAh battery is extremely small.
At 950 mAh that would be just over 24 days. I would expect an improvement in battery life with E-ink.
I'm curious to see what would happen if someone made a simple phone that behaved as an access point. Hook up my watch, my tablet, bluetooth headphones, let it stay in my pocket most of the time.