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Comment by ricardobeat

2 years ago

Will this one actually work?

I bought the Light Phone 2 back in 2019, and it was far from what they promised. Besides being visually disappointing compared to the renders, it lacked most of the software that was announced.

Eventually (2 or 3 years later) they added music, basic directions and notes. Yet it’s painful to use, doesn’t show images, has no support for messaging besides SMS, not even email. The cloud-only setup sucks. You can’t even copy music to it over USB. And battery life was pretty underwhelming for an e-ink device.

Maybe a ReMarkable phone would finally bring this concept to life.