So, tell me about Light Phone 2? How did we get here? The level of anxiety we’re not aware that we’re perpetually, constantly overwhelmed, and we’ve gotten so habitually used to it that we forget that sitting there for an hour can do wonders for your overall health. Then after we shipped tens of thousands of, people came back saying that switching was nerve-wracking in the beginning, but once you get over the fear of missing out, you start to feel the magic. Right? So I can pick up for an hour and go without my smartphone, and have peace of mind knowing I won’t miss a call. Sometimes we just need a break and this is designed to make that experience special. We wanted it to be some sort of conscious thing, like “I’m ‘Going Light today,” to kind of consciously set aside for the day. Joe Hollier (JH): We’re a featureless phone and we really want to brand what the main feature is. Q: What does it mean when you say “Going Light”? The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Chief among them, who was buying the Light Phone 2 and what they were actually looking to get out of it? When I sat down with Hollier and Tang, we talked about quite a number of things. “It also drove a bunch of investors to us as well.” Those investors include John Zimmer (Lyft cofounder), Tim Kendall (former president of Pinterest and current CEO of Moment) and Scott Belsky (Adobe Chief Product Officer). “After Apple, Samsung and Google introduced their wellness apps, that actually increased a lot of people’s awareness of what smartphones are doing to us,” Tang explained.
The company behind the phone thinks that, in the meantime, the demand for its product will only increase. Right now, however, the Light Phone 2 is limited to calls, texts and alarms. They hope to add a hotspot feature, too, so that if you need to access the internet, the Light Phone 2 would be able to act as the hotspot for a laptop. Hollier and Tang hope that future OS updates will add features like music, navigation and support for rideshare apps like Lyft or Uber.
#Minimalist cellphone software
Interestingly, it also has built-in Wi-Fi, which will enable Light Phone 2 to download software updates. The Light Phone 2 has an E-Ink Touchscreen display and can send and receive texts. As for the price, the Light Phone 2 costs $350 (which is just a touch more affordable than a new Google Pixel). It has a headphone jack and built-in Bluetooth, too, mainly just for hands-free calling. It has an E-Ink touchscreen display (the original Light Phone just had an illuminated number pad) and it can send and receive text messages. The Light Phone 2, which started shipping to backers in the fall of 2019, is definitely a more advanced device. In its defense, it was designed specifically to be a secondary phone. It cost $150 and could only make and receive calls and it could only store nine phone numbers. The company’s first minimalist smartphone, the original Light Phone, was announced in 2015 (and then released in 2017) and was wildly successful, raising over $400,000 on Kickstarter. Their preferred nomenclature is “minimalist.” You know, a phone that doesn’t have apps or the distractions of Instagram, Twitter or Gmail, not because it’s dumb, but because it doesn’t want to. That’s one of the first things that Joe Hollier and Kai Tang, the two founders of Light Phone, corrected me on when I sat down with them early this year.
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