If you were to walk out into the streets, go to a cafe, hop onto the train, or go to a restaurant, you will find many people with their faces buried in their phones either texting friends, checking emails, playing games, catching up on social media, and so on. It has actually become something of a bad habit which is what the Light Phone is trying to help get rid of.
As you can see in the image above, the Light Phone is a device that’s around the size of a credit card, but in reality it is simply a phone. It is a phone in the most basic form where all it can do is make and receive calls. Yup, there’s not even texting. The idea behind it is to create a phone that does not distract the user from their daily lives, thus keeping the phone as a pure communications tool.
Conceived by Joe Jollier and Kaiwei Tang, the Light Phone can work with your existing handset by forwarding its calls to it, but at the same time is an unlocked pre-paid cellphone so that in the event your primary phone dies, the Light Phone will still be able to function as it comes with 500 minutes of talktime.
According to Hollier, “Prior to having a phone, I loved the excuse of being unreachable by my parents when I would be out. I found solitude incredibly therapeutic. And when I did go out for the day, my phone would usually die and I loved that. I used to joke about how freeing it was: no idea what time it was, no guilt of not answering or waiting for a reply.”
It’s actually intriguing to see that despite all of our technological advances, there are some out there who are willing to take a step back and “dumb” it all down in the name of simplicity. Its creators have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their device so if you think that a distraction-free world is where you’d like to live in, this could be a step towards that direction.
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