Kendrick Lamar enters the tech space with a collaboration on the Light Phone 2. Light phones offer minimalistic experiences without apps or color.
They all sold out and they are all packed in one dudes garage. The actual sale of them will take place over the next year over a series of ebay auction, as is tradition for limited edition things.
There’s only 250 made, that’s why it sold out.
Hence “limited edition”
Extra limited. Dang.
So limited that it isn’t even a whole phone!
Considered this phone but couldn’t commit to something like that, nor can I justify such a price tag for that. Instead I’m attempting to dumb down my phone. Moving to GrapheneOS and starting from the basics is definitely a good starting point.
I have owned the Light Phone 1 and the Light Phone 2 – both were built with the intent to stay connected in a handful of ways without needing to have a full-spec’d, app-heavy, typically-sized smart phone.
If the intent and the vibe make sense to you, then it is a wonderful approach for a more ‘minimalist’ device: you can go outdoors, travel, hike, camp, etc., without having a smart phone to pick up and play with. I dig it.
If the intent and vibe don’t make sense to you, the Light Phone may not be a good fit.
I really like the device, and use it often enough as a daily driver on weekends. Always glad to see some public attention on it.
Let’s be honest, he could sell poop in a ziploc bag and his fans would buy it.
I hate minimalism! This is a dumb phone that got rid of everything that made dumb phones charming.
I love minimalism, but dumbphones are not functionally minimal. They do less and seem “simple”, but you’re offsetting necessary utility elsewhere. Mostly they require making compromises that don’t need to be made if not for a little self-control.
A simple black rectangle is perfectly minimal. How you set them up is everything.
Since when is Light Phone “Kendrick Lamar’s company”?
That explains why they’re so damn expensive.
You could buy equally or more functional phones in the early 2000s for $100-200.
Who?
One of the greatest rappers.
Kendrik Lamar
Mike jones
You can go buy one right now. These have been out for years.
https://www.thelightphone.com/shop/products/light-phone-ii-black
It just doesn’t say phalange or whatever on the back lol. So fucking stupid.
Not so dumb if it has voice recognition…
Possibly for accessibility reasons? No point in shafting blind people just for a gag.
The Nokia 3310 had voice recognition…
I hardly text and your call is going to voice mail. Phone things are not the reason I have a smartphone. I’d be happy with an updated Palm Pilot with connectivity.
Oh, how I miss my Treo. If only they made a next Gen, with a new OS that had backwards compatibility for Palm apps, which were tiny and used little power.
Missing lte band 71. Hope the buyers don’t have T-Mobile in an area that’s b71 only.
Yeah the Light Phone 2 has been out for a while now. I saw it and thought “oh this is kind of interesting.” Then I found out it has a shit radio and a shit battery. You’d think that it would last days and says on one charge but nope. Also it has USB-Micro for charging lol.
If they fixed a few things like that, I would be all over it.
I can only imagine what kind of profit this company is making by selling a phone literally purpose built to be as lightweight as possible both physically and on features for $299.
I’d be willing to bet they could sell that for half the price and still make a reasonably-sized profit - so I might just take out my popcorn and see if somebody does.
Just bought a Poco M3 Pro 5G for 75 bucks at AliExpress if they can beat it with their Dumb Phone I’m in.
Ridiculous price for a dumb phone
Not for a run of only 250.
Edit: I should have explained that I was referring only to economies of scale in manufacturing of electronics. Making only 250 of some electronic device means a much higher per unit cost than if one made 10,000 of the same thing. You can look at quantity discounts of microcontrollers or sensors or things like that ok Digi-Key or Mouser and see what I mean.
Yeah it is. A rare stupid thing is as worthless as a common stupid thing if you’re not an idiot about it.
I’m talking about economies of scale ffs. Not rarity.
Prices of electronic components goes way down beyond, say, 1000, 5000, 10000, etc.
And I’m talking about how much owning and using it is worth, regardless of the seller’s self-imposed extra expenses.
