You’ll also have to shell out $250 for a supplemental phone, plus $5 a month for service. For example, the camera and GPS, not to mention the ability to summon a Lyft or Uber at a moment’s notice when you’re rushing around. OK, so reality check: You might actually miss the modern conveniences you’ve come to rely on when you leave your smartphone-enhanced with a zillion time-saving apps-at home.
It’s easy to transfer incoming calls to the lightphone, then back to your regular phone, using their app. The Light Phone solves for that, so you can truly turn the pings and buzzes of countless notifications off, and just have your phone to communicate by calls or texts, and little else.
You get the idea.Īs much as we all lament being constantly connected, it feels a bit scary in today’s world to fully go off the grid. It features a beautiful matte black and white e-ink display and best of all, it’s compact (and durable) enough to fit in your back pocket or even your wallet. It’s a simple 4G LTE phone that allows you access to the basics-the ability to make calls and send texts and set an alarm clock-and that’s it. The Light Phone is the antidote to how complicated our smartphones are. The original came out a few years back via a Kickstarter campaign (I backed them), but now the second generation is here, called the Light Phone 2, and it’s blowing up on IndieGogo. That’s why I’m a huge fan of the Light Phone. Plus, as we’ve been learning more and more, they’re especially crafty and vying for (and consuming) our attention, and creating smartphone addiction in the best of us. Our smartphones are not just a mobile connection to our sitter, spouse and kids, they’re our mobile office, our camera, our weather report, our GPS and more. The good old days, when a phone was a phone are long gone.
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