The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams

The Light Flip doesn't person a touchscreen; instead, users person to trust connected a D-pad, 3 relation keys, a corroborate and cancel button, and old-school T9 typing with predictive text. All the “tools” from the Light Phone III—what Light Phone calls its apps connected its LightOS platform—will enactment erstwhile the Light Flip launches adjacent year.

It's a beauteous constricted set, with tools similar Phone, Alarm, Calculator, Calendar, and Directions. However, successful May, the institution announced a bundle improvement kit that enables third-party developers to make caller tools for the platform, expanding the possibilities. These whitethorn request tweaks to execute conscionable arsenic good connected the Light Flip.

There's USB-C, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G connectivity, Nano SIM and eSIM support, adjacent a headphone jack, a perk missing connected the pricier Light Phone III. (There is nary NFC.) On the front, the deficiency of a surface keeps up with the distraction-free ethos—it's conscionable a notification LED that flashes erstwhile caller alerts travel through. There's a 12-MP camera connected the back, and a replaceable 1,800-mAh battery. Flip it unfastened and there's a 2.8-inch OLED display, stereo speakers, and 2 microphones.

The full instrumentality is plastic, dissimilar its all-metal sibling, which helps support the outgo down. That besides allows the institution to connection it successful six colors: black, navy, red, pink, yellow, and airy gray. It's IP54 water- and dust-resistant.

Tang points to the caller Summer of Ludd festival that took spot successful New York City, wherever helium and different Light Phone members were contiguous arsenic participants. Event-goers booed radical who pulled retired their smartphones to grounds video.

“The sentiment of pushing backmost connected smartphones is truthful strong; they don't similar AI,” helium says. “They privation these antithetic signifier factors that marque them consciousness arrogant oregon wholly separated from smartphone app stores. It makes america consciousness encouraged that this is precisely what we've wanted to bash for 10 years, and present it's getting bigger and bigger and younger and younger.” It's nary mishap that Light Phone's caller flippy handset is being announced a time earlier Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, wherever the mobile elephantine is expected to debut its latest folding smartphones.