I switched to the premium dumbphone everyone's talking about, and it puts E Ink to shame

ZDNET's key takeaways The Light Phone 3 is available now with support from many major carriers for $599. It's setting a new standard for simplified phones by combining a sleek, minimal product with a focused purpose. I wish the battery lasted longer, there are still some features in development, and it's not exactly cheap. View now at The Light Phone Much attention has been paid to the idea of a "dumbphone." We've all had the thought: how liberating it would be to ditch the smartphone forever, freeing yourself from the shackles of social media, the endless stream of notifications, and after-hours work emails. The problem is that we're used to a certain aesthetic experience. The idea of going back to a flip phone or lo-fi early-2000s Motorola might be exciting in theory, but navigating a 2.8-inch display, physical buttons, or worse -- T9 texting -- is, in practice, more trouble than it's worth. Also: I spoke with Google's Head of Android about the future of AI - and smart glasses a ... Read full article.