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ITT: People complaining that a purposefully minimalist phone doesn't have the very specific feature that they want. If the point is to be reachable by a loved

• huangc10 7y ago
  ITT? This isn't Reddit. Of course people are going to talk about missing features. If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, I can think of a hundred other options that don't cost $350. I think that's what you meant.
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• hadrien01 7y ago
  I think this phone is the perfect device for someone like my grandmother that can't even answer the phone on her smartphone because she can't slide the answer button. Smartphones nowadays are very complicated machines with hundreds of UX concepts that are not understandable by a increasingly higher proportion of the population. And you can never disable every function ("apps" in iMessage, really?!). My grandmother uses an Android phone I've very heavily customised (deleted apps with adb, put a Windows Phone-like launcher with flashing icons for notifications, compiled custom versions of OSS apps for SMS and calls, etc.). This Light Phone seems perfect for her.
• doesnt_know 7y ago
  > If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, this seems like a reasonable option. Not even close. You can get a basic phone plus sim card for like $40 or less and then pay a few dollars (or less) a month on prepay to keep it connected to the network. This is a toy secondary phone for those with disposable income, not a valid low-income alternative.
• Hamuko 7y ago
  >If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, this seems like a reasonable option. $350 is not a reasonable option to be reachable by a loved one when a brand new Nokia 3310 is like $60 and can do standby for like 3-4 weeks with a single charge.