Are you looking for how to cure your phone addiction but still don’t want to miss a call? Guess there is now a solution for that. The Light Phone is exactly that. It is designed to exclude all other functions of a phone except calls.
The Light Phone lacks a camera, and every other thing you would want in a typical phone: apps, e-mail, text messaging, multimedia support, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or even a screen to display text. All it has a small strip to display numbers, and nine speed-dial buttons.
The purpose of the Light Phone is to cure people of smartphone addiction when it is necessary. These days, lots of people feel different when their smartphones are not around them. You find them tapping their pockets, listening for a ringtone, feeling nonexistent vibrations.
According to the creators of the Light Phone, having a direct line of communication to everyone and everything always available affects us more than we realize. Now, the purpose of this device is remove that stream of constant connectivity, while still giving you a way to keep in touch with people.
Now, one might think that buying this device is unnecessary, since we could simply get a feature phone. However, mobile network carriers have begun to scale back their old 2G networks, to replace them with LTE. Thus, the feature phones of past years might not be able to connect to a network now. This makes the Light Phone a good option for people who want to go light.
This device is meant to be used instead of your smartphone when you want to get away from it all. Therefore, a lot of effort has been made to make it work.
There is a cloud software platform to handle call routing, a simplified version of Android, and so much more. All you need to do is put in your own SIM card. For users in the US, the device comes with its own SIM card, which you can adopt to your own phone number. This SIM card comes with a monthly charge of $5. The device itself goes for $150.
