Light Phone 2

Beautiful phone designed to be used as little as possible

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Beautiful phone designed to be used as little as possible

9 followers

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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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I enjoy the intent, as I already don’t use notifications, etc.; but I think it’s misguided not to include a few more basic functions. I’m aware of feature creep, but no documents at all? I’m not going to bring this and an e-reader to the beach, say. I would buy one (when it’s actually a real product) if it included basic e-reader functionality.

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8yr ago

@jr_nelson Bring an actual book?

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8yr ago

You say it will be able to message people. But what app wil it support? What's App? iMessage? Telegram?

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8yr ago

@joehollier I'm curious about the decision to drop shipping a SIM with the Light Phone 2. From what I read about the first Light Phone launch, it had its own SIM card and maintained your smartphone number. I have Verizon, which does not allow duplicate SIMs, so it is pretty much out of the question to buy a whole secondary phone plan specifically for the Light Phone 2. Really like the concept though.

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8yr ago

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@eric_miller Hi Eric, thanks for checking it out. I completely see where you are coming from. We do actually plan to offer a few SIM options to LP2 users, which will be sharing in a few months time as we learn a little bit more about our users so we can tailor the plans and development to meet their needs. We are considering still offering the call forwarding/masking platform, the biggest hurdle for us was that it is currently not possible to forward/mask messages so the experience would be pretty confusing as it stands and we felt that it would make more sense to launch the campaign as unlocked phone and to over the next few months offer a variety of options for different ways to integrate it into your lifestyle. I will also admit, that we were never able to bring that platform internationally and in speaking with those users, the lack of same number was actually way less of a hurdle than we initially anticipated. People sometimes enjoyed have a second 'light' number. You can still call forward to it, and set up an auto-reply with a link to text your new light number perhaps, or just share that light number with closest friends and family. Obviously it's not seamless, but I guess my point is just that it wasn't a deal breaker for everyone. Also, although Verizon may not have such a feature yet, I'm pretty sure they have been working on one for a while to compete with the ATT NUmber Sync and TMobile Digits platforms. As smartwatches with SIMs and IPads with SIMs become more popular, users will expect that feature and only the carriers are able to solve it in a fully seamless way. The final side of the picture is that our speciality is in hardware and UX, the cloud platform was an ambitious task that delayed our launch by 6 months initially and in a way we want to focus on what we know how to do best. Hope some of that makes sense!

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8yr ago

@joehollier Thanks for the response Joe! You make a great point, I suppose I could actually setup a Google Voice number for LP2... I'll have to look into Verizon more if they've got some new stuff brewing for secondary SIMs. That actually makes a pretty great case for picking up a LP2 as a secondary phone akin to owning an apple watch w/ cellular. I personally would find the LP2 more useful and beneficial than apple watch. :) 🙌

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8yr ago

I need a camera to take photos of documents and pages. So, if light phone give the option of taking photo although there is no problem if I cant see photograph on mobile screen. They should provide option to just take photo and copy photo on PC. There is no need to provide photo preview option. Taking pic of documents is essential for every knowledge worker. So, I will buy and use light phone as my primary phone only if they provide this option.

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every knowledge worker should use their time and concentration wisely so it is a great idea.

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They should provide option to just take photo & copy photo on PC . No ned preview option after clicking photo.

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8yr ago

I think that illustrates one hurdle of this idea: different people need different specific features -- one person needs a camera but no apps, another person doesn't. I wonder what options are available to cater to more niches.

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8yr ago

The need for tools to live a more digitally minimal life is becoming more acute each year. I have already last year disabled all notifications on all devices and removed social media apps from my phone. These have been first aid to my addictive phone usage and light phone 2 could be the next step. Adding bluetooth to the final configuration much welcome move.

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8yr ago

I absolutely LOVE this...and yet I’ll never get it. Because either I can’t risk not having a camera on me anymore or if I really decide to go without I’ll go even more minimal and leave the house with a cellular Apple Watch + AirPods. Maybe this needs an Apple Watch app to receive notifications for non-cellular Watch owners (but that base will shrink in the next few years) or bundle it with a tiny camera! Or maybe I’m wrong and a smart watch will actually make people more likely to leave the fully featured phone at home and get yours as a minimal screen to have just in case 🤷🏻‍♂️

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8yr ago

Help.center

OMG! I was a big supporter of Light Phone 1. I remember arguing with my friends over why this is very important today. Still, I felt the light phone could do a bit more. Now you have done it. Get the message across everybody. I hope this becomes available everywhere. #NeedoftheCentury

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8yr ago

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