The use case for this is people who want to take it to a social occasion and show it off, while using a regular phone with email, music, podcasts, maps, uber, and social media for most of their daily lives.
The Light Phone
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Re: The Light Phone
#82Well, the page is really white!
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#83My team built the OS on a custom fork of Android (https://www.sanctuary.computer).
I would say ask me anything but I’m in the middle of the Australian outback with virtually no mobile signal...!
What I can say is that working with Eink is rudimentary - we had to build everything from a custom kernel driver all the way up to the view layouts and UX. We expected Eink would give us sophisticated SDKs, but unfortunately a lot of wheels had to be reinvented. I have huge respect for the team behind the Yota Phone!
I’ve written a tear down of how it all works that I’ll be sharing soon on our company twitter if anyone is interested.
(not sent from a light phone)
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#84I don't get it. While it is better than an iPhone by having a headphone jack. Still who is the market here? Someone who doesn't want to use a phone much but can't pull themselves away from it or cutstomize an android phone to not bother them.
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#85My team built the OS on a custom fork of Android ( https://www.sanctuary.computer ). I would say ask me anything but I’m in the middle of the Australian outback with virtually no mobile signal...! What I can say is that working with Eink is rudimentary - we had to build everything from a custom kernel driver all the way up to the view layouts and UX. We expected Eink would give us sophisticated SDKs, but unfortunatel…
The battery life must be immense right? AT least one advantage there? How long does it last.
Re: The Light Phone
#86The use case for this is people who want to take it to a social occasion and show it off, while using a regular phone with email, music, podcasts, maps, uber, and social media for most of their daily lives.
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Re: The Light Phone
#87You can do exactly that kind of things with your regular smartphone by not installing tons of apps that disturb you all the time. As far as I know the user is pretty much in control of what apps they choose to add.
In that case, Putting the phone in DND mode 24x7 and only using it only when we need it exponentially limits phone usage and interruptions.
But, not many can afford having their phone in DND mode all the time due to their job/family requirements(I do it and I've read few others on HN doing it). Then again, there are jobs which require you to install apps on your personal device or at-least communication apps like Slack, Teams etc.; In those case even Light Phone cannot be used.
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#88My team built the OS on a custom fork of Android ( https://www.sanctuary.computer ). I would say ask me anything but I’m in the middle of the Australian outback with virtually no mobile signal...! What I can say is that working with Eink is rudimentary - we had to build everything from a custom kernel driver all the way up to the view layouts and UX. We expected Eink would give us sophisticated SDKs, but unfortunatel…
The battery life must be immense right? AT least one advantage there? How long does it last.
According to the website's FAQ, 1-3 days.
Re: The Light Phone
#89My team built the OS on a custom fork of Android ( https://www.sanctuary.computer ). I would say ask me anything but I’m in the middle of the Australian outback with virtually no mobile signal...! What I can say is that working with Eink is rudimentary - we had to build everything from a custom kernel driver all the way up to the view layouts and UX. We expected Eink would give us sophisticated SDKs, but unfortunatel…
The battery life must be immense right? AT least one advantage there? How long does it last.
Well they're using Android so... Probably not much. Display isn't that important to battery life (unless you're using it all the time.)
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#90You can do exactly that kind of things with your regular smartphone by not installing tons of apps that disturb you all the time. As far as I know the user is pretty much in control of what apps they choose to add.
In that case, Putting the phone in DND mode 24x7 and only using it only when we need it exponentially limits phone usage and interruptions. But, not many can afford having their phone in DND mode all the time due to their job/family requirements(I do it and I've read few others on HN doing it). Then again, there are jobs which require you to install apps on your personal device or at-least communication apps like Sla…
I have DnD 24x7 and it is bliss.