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I heard about the Light Phone recently and I think it's a decent bridge between the old brick phones and modern smartphones. It has navigation and music functionality that a brick phone wouldn't, but doesn't have all the rest of the attention thieving bloat of a smartphone.
It would be nice to have music streaming capability and alternative messaging apps (Signal) and perhaps a web browser, though.
600 dollars
this is a joke, right?
Do have any idea about the engineering required to remove all of the bloat?!
/s
Truthfully 800, but there is an old model that costs "only" 300...
you can get a fairly decent simple android device for like 70 bucks. so the gimmick seems to prey on those that wish to have an "experience" and not a functional device.