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Light just announced the Light Flip -- a minimalist flip phone for $299.
It has a slightly lower-end build compared to the Light Phone 3, but aims for a thoughtful design and striking colors.
It comes with a nine-month "Flip Your Life" program that helps users prepare to ditch their smartphones for good.
Light, the company that made the "premium dumbphone", just announced the latest device to its lineup: the Light Flip, a $299 flip phone with the same minimal aesthetic but with trade-offs in hardware, build, and a lower rate at $39 a month.
The Brooklyn-based company's core ethos remains the same: a completely minimalist UI, no email, no apps, and limited features -- even less than the Light Phone 3, which was already spare. The result is a unique device in wild colors designed solely for making calls and sending texts (if you can brave the T9 keyboard).
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