The Light Phone

Has your smartphone taken over your life? Do you get withdrawal symptoms if you are separated from your smartphone for a longish period of time? Or does your attention and time get sucked up by your smartphone to the extent that you can’t do other stuff? If this sounds like your problem, the Light Phone may be the solution for you.

This credit card sized phone was the brain child of Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang. They started working on a simple no texting phone in 2014 and launched a Kickstarter campaign for the product in 2015.  As the name suggests, the idea was to go Light.

With no text features the phone is simple and it is barely 38.5 grams weight. The idea is to go back to a basic phone that only makes calls. Of course it has a handy long lasting battery that doesn’t need to be charged for three days.

The creators intend the Light Phone to be a second phone. A supplement to your smartphone. When all you need to do is make a phone call you can reach of this gadget rather than the complicated and distracting main phone. Though the science project catches interest it is still to be seen how user friendly it is likely to be.