Designed to push back against addictive tendencies in smartphone use, Light Phones are capable of only sending and receiving calls and texts and scheduling alarms.
Light Phone’s second build debuted earlier this week as an alternative option for smartphone users tired of constant pings from email, social media, and entertainment apps. The phone has no apps and is designed to eliminate distractions from the world’s most common productivity tool.
Light was founded by Joe Hollier and Kai Tang in 2014 with the mission "to bring a human voice back into this crazy world of technology." "We feel like it has to be a different feeling," Tang told Business Insider. "It has to be a different look and feel, different user interface. We want utility that's not a distraction, not noise. No endless browsing or discovering."