Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What a strange phone…”.
Every so often will do also known as hilly who he’ll go out on a limb send a few emails. He sees a product that he likes on the internet and then it shows up here, and he goes oh yeah that thing yeah. I thought it might be cool, maybe it should be in the show today. I have something very bizarre.
It’S called the light phone it ships in this book. Look at this designed to be used as little as possible such a strange statement for any product. You can probably guess at this point what the intention is of this device.
It is a phone meant to be as simple as possible, removing you from the tight grip that social media has over you. Now, i’m not suggesting that that’s the case, i’m just i’m talking about the concept here. This is the first device that this company has made, but apparently there’s an indiegogo happening, they’re working on the next version. Let’S check out the first version and see where we’re at this idea has actually been gathering a little bit of steam.
This idea of digital detox, where you would put your smartphone away – and i don’t know – maybe you don’t have the willpower to do it without completely changing the device. That’S in your pocket: let’s crack this thing open and see if it has a reason to exist or if it’s just completely bizarre one of the things i should mention: it’s not exactly cheap either. This one is about a hundred bucks. I can’t think of one uh functional element here that would probably extend beyond even what your smartphone is capable of and and that’s probably in the battery life range three days of battery life right now, you’re probably screaming at your camera lens. Just saying that, why would i want a phone with a keypad? You can’t watch youtube. Maybe this is uh in your future somewhere.
Maybe things get so bad you’re, not taking care of your your daily activities. Could this be the antidote okay, so they’re calling it a second phone? I i want to be. You know complete transparency here, they’re, not saying it’s going to replace your smartphone, i’m guessing here that all these experiences i would be more likely to engage with, because i’m not staring at my smartphone. Where is the actual phone? I don’t there.
We go. Okay, cool cut out in the book. It is nice, it’s kind of nice, it’s kind of cute. It’S very slim.
You will not notice that in your pocket, all right, i’m coming up with some other circumstances in which this might be cool. It’S still a hundred bucks. It’S still not a smartphone, i get all that, but what about when you go for a jog or something you don’t want your full phone with you. You just want something slim for an emergency situation. There’S something cool about the design. Yes, it’s a dumb phone.
They could have made it look. However, i just like how simple it is all right. You get that you get a cable whoa. That is so weird that that is a phone.
Can you see that wow? It is tiny? I immediately see the the earpiece up on the top. There hold switch, lock, switch over here, sim card trays over here, microphone and micro. Usb, let’s see if we can power it up, we got a haptic, a little vibration, a buzz and the keypad has lit up. There’S also a display hidden here. If i use the lock switch, it says lock and unlock it also vibrates very strongly. So you know you’ve done that going through 2g connection, hey hey very loud, so 2g, clear voice.
Here’S clear too he’s clear. I mean we’re calling we’re making phone calls x to hang up. That’S it tells you how long it was and then the time pops back up honestly guys, there’s not much. I can say about it. You kind of at this point. You understand its intention like the design of it. It’S a nice simple object, it’s minuscule, you could hide it somewhere, but of course, for many of you and various other tech enthusiasts you’re sitting there. Thinking like that’s the last thing that i would want in my life, but the company here light they’re, hoping not to replace your smartphone but to be a backup plan.
You could criticize the 100 price point. I guess you can actually get a smartphone for like 100 bucks in the next version, they took the functionality up a notch. Maybe a couple of notches you’re gon na have messaging on the new one.
You’Re gon na have an alarm directions. Ride. Sharing i mean you can watch the video on indiegogo they’re being more ambitious with the next one.
You know they’re kind of going in between they’re like all right. Some things on smartphones are actually kind of cool like how can directions be bad or navigation? You don’t really get addicted to that, imagine being addicted to google maps. I do like google maps, but imagine every day you’re, just like map freak, that’s just like yo.
They updated the one street with uh. They finally fixed it on the corner of uh. But anyway, they brought a little bit of functionality back into it.
Nonetheless, i do want to know what you guys think. Are you too addicted to your smartphone lifestyle? Would you ever consider making a change? Do you have the discipline to just put it down smartphone addiction, it is real. Is this the solution, i’m not sure, maybe a little personal discipline, all right get your act together. Hopefully you can. Hopefully i can we’ll see. Today’S episode of unbox therapy is brought to you by the senglit element: smart bulb lighting system. This is the classic starter kit in front of me. It gets you up and running with two bulbs and a hub which you can then add up to 50 bulbs to at only 10 bucks apiece budget alternative to some of the other smart bulb systems.
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