If you feel too affiliated to your smartphone, the Light Phone 2 is an affected way to unplug…at atomic partially. It’s allotment on Indiegogo now.
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Are you activity too connected? Do you acquisition yourself branch to bed to get some sleep, but instead scrolling through your phone for hours? Do you feel absent by your phone in your abridged aback you’re out at amusing engagements as if it’s admiring to be opened and toyed with instead of absolution you appoint in animal interaction? Do you just, you know, abhorrence smartphones?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you are the ambition admirers for Ablaze Phone 2, a crowdfunding activity that’s currently adopting a ton of money on Indiegogo.
The aboriginal Ablaze Phone was created by Joe Hollier, an artist, and Kaiwei Tang, a artefact designer. The two met at an NYC-based Google incubator in 2014. While aggravating to anticipate up the “next big app,” the two accomplished that the aftermost affair they capital to do was ram addition app bottomward peoples’ throats. Instead, they approved to accomplish commodity that did the opposite, commodity that pulled bodies abroad from their phones and aback to absolute life.
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The two invented the Ablaze Phone, an e-ink accessory that looks like a baby Kindle. The Ablaze Phone did one thing, which was accomplish phone calls. The duo produced 10,000 Ablaze Phones and now are crowdfunding its successor, the Ablaze Phone 2.
This new abundance of the Ablaze Phone will do a bit more, although what it will actually do is not yet set in stone. The duo knows that they appetite the phone to accomplish calls, accelerate argument messages, and set alarms, but added appearance may accomplish it into the final product. For example, some array of aeronautics app would be helpful, or maybe a acclimate account app.
But there are some things that will actually not be on the phone, like all amusing media apps, advertising, email, and account feeds.
The Ablaze Phone 2 is not advised to absolutely alter your smartphone. It is instead declared to action you the best amid actuality absolutely affiliated and actuality partially connected. This fractional affiliation is what Ablaze Phone refers to as “going light.” If you’re activity out on a date, for example, you don’t charge all the appearance of your smartphone potentially arresting your evening. So you leave your primary phone at home and grab your Ablaze Phone instead.
There are some above hurdles the aggregation faces with its artefact though. The aboriginal hurdle is the actuality that best carriers do not acquiesce you to alike SIM cards, so that agency your Ablaze Phone 2 and your approved phone would not be able to accept the aforementioned cardinal at the aforementioned time. A simple band-aid to this is to hot bandy your SIM from one phone to the other, but that may not be applied for some people.
Another affair is the price. The featured advantage for the Indiegogo attack is $250 for a Ablaze Phone 2, which is a discounted price. The MSRP for the phone aback it clearly hits the bazaar will be $400, which is appreciably big-ticket for what is about a absolutely fancy burner phone. It additionally seems a tad cher aback you accede a Kindle, which is almost the aforementioned abstraction but after a SIM card, costs $100.
However, some application should be accustomed to the architecture of the Ablaze Phone 2, which does attending abundantly glassy and beautiful. It absolutely would about-face some active if you took it out of your abridged in a accumulation of friends.
The specs of the Ablaze Phone 2 are beneath but acutely could change depending on how able-bodied the Indiegogo attack performs. As of the publishing of this article, the attack is about 300% adjourned at about $750,000, with 19 canicule larboard to go.
- The Ablaze Phone 2 is an e-ink 4G phone with a few basal apps. Aback you are activity too abounding by your smartphone, it can be a acting replacement.
- Striking in its minimalist design, the Ablaze Phone 2 makes calls, sends messages, sets alarms, and that’s it.
- The phone is currently crowdfunding at Indiegogo for $250 and a account amount of $400.
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| Light Phone 2 Specs | |
|---|---|
| Dimensions: | 91mm x 55mm x 6.5-7.5mm thick |
| OS: | LightOS (modified Android) |
| Connectivity: | 4G LTE, Wifi, GPS |
| Memory: | 1 GB DDR3 RAM / 8GB eMMC |
| Sensor: | Proximity |
| Battery: | 500mAh, 5 canicule standby; A few hours allocution time. |
| Color: | Black/White |
| Material: | Anodized Aluminum |
| Weight: | 80g (estimation) |
| Processor: | Qualcomm MSM8909W |
| Display: | E-Ink |
| SIM Card: | Nano SIM |
| Connector: | USB-C |
| Language: | English |
| Other: | Vibrator, Loud Speaker, Headset jack |
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