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Light Phone

Phone designed to be used as little as possible

The Light Phone is your second phone. A casual phone for going light, enjoying quality time doing what you love to do the most free of distractions. It uses your same phone number so you can leave your smartphone behind while maintaining the peace of mind that you are still reachable.

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Digital Trends

Many tech companies say they don't develop products, they develop experiences. In a lot of cases, it's a thinly veiled attempt at ascribing some higher philosophical or moral calling to the work they do. But for one startup based out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, it's probably the most accurate way to describe what they've built.

Thriveglobal

I recently overheard the following conversation at a bar: a girl asked to use the establishment's landline because her smartphone had inexplicably stopped working. She picked up the phone, which, despite being new, looked like an ancient and comically large artifact from a distant past.

WSJ

Technology promised to make living easier-but complicated it instead. The answer? More tech that helps curb your reliance on your phone.

Evening Standard

London is in the grip of phone fever. The iPhone X is finally out, Google has launched its Pixel 2, and there are Samsungs galore boasting infinity displays and face recognition. Though they aren't all souped up: a new anti-smartphone phone, the Light Phone, is also selling fast.

Dezeen

Designers Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang have designed a mobile phone that intentionally lacks features, in hopes of encouraging users to disconnect from the internet. Designed to be used as a second phone, the Light Phone allows smartphone users to disconnect from their apps while still being contactable via phone call.

Minimalissimo

The Light Phone is not only an exciting design product, it is more a physical manifestation of philosophical questions. Those question to me are: ...

Business Insider

The Light Phone is the anti-smartphone. It does two things and two things only: It sends calls and receives them. It doesn't text, it doesn't connect to Twitter, and it doesn't have a camera. In fact, Light's founders say the phone is designed to be used "as little as possible."

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Light Phone 2

Beautiful phone designed to be used as little as possible

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The Light Phone 2 is a 4G phone with a beautiful black & white matte E-ink display. It's a more reliable, durable, and practical phone, now featuring essential tools like messaging, an alarm clock, the ability to get a ride-share home or a list of simple directions. All so you can leave your smartphone behind more often.

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Nokia 3310

A modern classic reimagined

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Nokia 8110 4G

The "Matrix phone"

Hardware

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Nokia 8110 4G is the return of the icon. Much like the original, the new Nokia 8110 4G has a curved protective cover (like a banana!) you can slide open to pick up calls and slide back to end them. Most importantly, the phone comes pre-installed with Snake.

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The Verge

Back in 1999, Keanu Reeves was famous for playing Neo in The Matrix, and not for looking sad on a bench. Nokia was also the "world's leading mobile phone supplier" back then, and it used this popularity to feature its Nokia 8110 "banana phone" in The Matrix film.

TechCrunch

Nokia's 8110 - the distinctive 'candy bar' feature phone with a slider opening - was once the phone that everyone wanted but no one could afford, made popular through the Matrix film franchise. Now HMD, the company that has the license to make Nokia phones, is hoping for a hit by bringing it back.

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