The Light Phone III
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The Light Phone III
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#2Are these hackable?
If I recall correctly v1 and 2 were completely closed, not sure though.
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#3Shipping Jan 2025, normally $799 retail (does not include tax or shipping).
For a phone that's almost certainly running Android under the hood, not having the ability to install Signal or Messenger or anything else just makes it dead on arrival imho.
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#4I would rather get a cheap Android phone with LineageOS and just remove anything I don't want.
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#5> We’ve also added a camera, but… in our own way. Taking inspiration from our favorite point-and-shoot film cameras, it has a dedicated two-step shutter button, with center focus and a fixed focal length.
I'm most curious about this feature. It sounds like there's no preview of your photo? How do you get the pictures off the phone? Is the quality any good?
I love the ideals of this this company ("stop using your phone as a way to scratch every tiny itch of boredom and frustration") but I feel like I can get there with any ol' phone and an hour of deleting all the apps I don't actually want to be using. So much work has been put into modern smart phone cameras that it'd be undesirable for me to give that up.
Also, regular smartphones have a long tail of really useful edge cases: AirBnB checkin instructions, boarding pass QR codes, unlocking scooters, paying for parking, etc.
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#6With those corners being rounded only in 2 dimensions, will the 3rd be rough on pockets?
(The only pocket photo is the phone half-inserted into what looks like the non-tight front of a paint-splattered heavy denim work apron, pulled away.)
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#8Light Phone dudes, if your whole thing is going to be future-proofing and "planned obsolescence remains an outrage to us," maybe don't stick III at the end of your product's name.
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#9As others have said, by the time it's flexible enough to have all the apps I need, it's flexible enough to have all the apps I don't want.
It's a shame they got rid of the eink display, that was one of the key selling points of the previous model for me.
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#10It would be nice to know what services they use to provide the navigation data. And in addition they should provide some sort of full disclosure of what happens to your data.