New Delhi: There is so much of smartness in the modern-day smart world. From smartphones, smartwatches, smartpens, the list is getting lengthier every passing day. In such a smart-scenario, a duo has taken upon the charge to reverse the obsession.
Creators, Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang, have developed a touch-based phone, dubbed The Light Phone, which is anything but a smartphone. What does it do then? Only make and answer calls. Sounds primitive? Read on.
Listed on Kickstarter, the $100 Light Phone is the size of a credit card, is thin and light, and lasts for 20 days on a charge. Since it doesn’t do anything beyond allowing you to answer or make calls, this phone is sans browser, or games, or NFC. But, it does allow you to quick dial and forward calls. It doubles as a flashlight and can be charged via USB.
This phone is a pre-paid GSM cell phone that works independent of your carrier and comes preloaded with minutes, SIM card, and an app to use with your existing smartphone. In a way, it is like an extension of your smarter phone, only a tad too simpler and allows you to feel connected, while being disconnected.
Hollier believes that today so much of time is spend connected and staring at screens that people are losing that presence in so many situations. He says the Light Phone has been built “as a way for people to find balance with their connectedness. It’s not that we think people should never connect again, it’s just that taking a break is extremely healthy in every sense of the word.”
In a smartphone and Internet-obsessed world, it is hard to imagine a phone that doesn’t let you even click a picture!
Whether it is able to make a place for itself in the ‘smart’ world or sink into oblivion like ‘real’ conversations, we will get to know when it starts shipping in May 2016.
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