The founders of a minimalist phone designed to free people from their smartphone addiction are hoping the very words of Apple CEO Tim Cook might help their cause.
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For the unfamiliar, it’s maybe easier to describe what the Light Phone isn’t than what it actually is. It doesn’t have an app store. It doesn’t have an internet browser. There’s also no camera, and no maps feature. There’s also definitely no social media. There’s no reason to rave about its screen because there’s nothing fancy about it; it’s e-ink rather than one beautifully designed to suck you in for hours of videos or games.
“If we’re going to have a genuine conversation about our relationship to technology, Tim is kind of the most powerful people in phones,” Hollier tells Forbes. “And so the fact that he’s already speaking our language, we just felt it was an organic reach out. It’s genuine. We would love to talk about the ways that we could see the future of technology changing and maybe there is something in the Light Phone that might pique his interest.
The Light Phone 2 itself is small enough to fit in a front shirt pocket and light enough to feel like a battery has fallen out of it, but still useful enough to do what phones have always done: make calls and send texts. However, it was built with the capacity to have more features added later.
In addition to the $3.5 million raised through the pre-sale, the company also raised another $8.4 million from a variety of notable individual investors including Lyft cofounder John Zimmer, Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky, and Anchor cofounders Michael Mignano and Nir Zicherman. Other investors include smartphone manufacturer Foxconn, Hinge Capital, Bullish, and White Bay Group.
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