'Dumb phone' for calls and texts offers smartphone detox
Preorders for the device start at $250 each. The Light Phone 2 allows you to leave your smartphone behind, bringing a few essential tools along the way. The Light Phone was created to offer basic telephony functions in an extremely slim form (4 mm thick), and it cost just US$100. This is a struggle that a lot of people have, and to provide a solution to this problem, we have the Light Phone 2. It is a 4G LTE device that comes with a black-and-white matte display, two physical buttons on the right side to navigate menus, and just enough features to make it functional but without all the distractions found in modern smartphones. The design boasts a lovely black & white matte E-ink display. The Light Phone 2 will also have a Contacts list, an alarm clock, and an auto-reply feature.
The team behind Light Phone 2 says it's toying with other features it may add down the road, such as turn-by-turn directions, ride-sharing, weather info, etc., but anything that does get added will have a objective. That was the basic premise behind the Light Phone, the "anti-smartphone" that came out past year as a Kickstarter project. Light Phone 2 is definitely more of a compromise than a purist dumbphone like the original, but it still also sounds like it fits the company's chosen tagline of being "a phone for humans" better than your average flagship smartphone does today.
The Light Phone 2 has already reached its goal of $250,000 despite there being 24 days left in the crowdfunding campaign.
About the hardware of the new handset, Light-the company behind the Light Phone-says it is more durable than before.
The new Light Phone 2 is the second model from Brooklyn startup Light, which in 2016 launched the original Light Phone.
Researchers have found evidence that smartphone addiction may lead to chemical imbalance in the brain, with a ratio that is significantly correlated to other forms of addiction, anxiety, and depression.
The Light Phone is created to ensure that people can go out "Light" leaving their smartphone at home, and thus, experience the world around them.
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