Light Phone III review: everything in moderation

The Light Phone III is the astir awesome Light hardware yet – but it’s not rather finished.

What are the indispensable features of a smartphone? That’s not a rhetorical question, and it’s actually a utile exercise: if I were to instrumentality distant everything but the things you genuinely need on your phone, what would those things be? And however mightiness you interact with your telephone otherwise if those things were each you had?

The $599 Light Phone III is 1 effort to reply those questions. The Light Phone III is substantially much powerful, functional, and smartphone-ish than anything Light has shipped before. (It’s besides substantially much expensive.) It has a camera now, and a accelerated and colorful touchscreen. It connects to 5G networks connected each 3 large US carriers and tons of others astir the world.

It’s a smarter phone than the erstwhile Light Phones, but it’s inactive not a smartphone. It has nary app store, nary societal media, nary web browser, nary of the things we bash connected our phones each day. That is, of course, the full point: Light envisions the instrumentality arsenic either a no-frills, nights-and-weekends complement to your smartphone oregon a wholesale replacement for anyone looking for overmuch little surface time. More recently, it has caught connected arsenic a instrumentality for kids — a schoolhouse successful Massachusetts made …

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