The Light Phone 3 is a little less light – but a lot more useful

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176026/light-phone-3-launch-price-release-date

by sanqui • 2 years ago

3 4 2 years ago

KMnO4• 2 years ago

It’s still not useful.

I don’t think I know anyone in my life who solely communicates over SMS and carrier phone calls. I currently do less than 10% of my communication through SMS.

If they ever figure out how to add WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc, they’ll greatly increase the number of people who would be willing to try it.

tocs32• 2 years ago

There are use cases where this sort of thing could be very useful. For a bunch of elderly and disabled a modern smartphone is unusable. The esthetics are nice but having something that is easy to use is important.

thecrumb• 2 years ago

I'd need some sort of chat, and a weather/radar app.

tocs32• 2 years ago

I have been looking for something like this for the past year or so for my elderly mother. Instead (and for the more or less same reasons given in the article) I am going to try to custom role a handset for a smart phone that is:

- connects to a smartphone so all the phones features are available.

- an lcd text display

- two buttons to scroll threw a contact list

- a button to call/hang up

- maybe in the future a button or two to read text.

The physical buttons are important to me (her) so she can easily make calls to the people she talks to. If anyone wants to steal the idea, please do. I might buy one.

Adding: Just some sort of DIY/Maker tool chain, for a bluetooh handset, would be useful.

The Light Phone 3 is a little less light – but a lot more useful

Related Stories