Also it's $3-400. Insane.
I can get a commodity android phone for $150, remove all of the apps, and with a little self control have the same thing.
It looks good, though.
Take any Android phone, uninstall all messaging apps, disable all other forms of background transfers and sync (increasingly hard to do as Google adds more and more of their services to the OS).
Enjoy your 3 to 4 day battery life.
You said active use, but this phone doesn't have any active uses, by design.
Standby time on modern smart phones isn't half bad, if you get rid of everything that wakes up the device!
Go to Settings / Battery and you can prevent or minimise a applications background cpu usage. Then go to your Data usage, from there you can prevent or minimize background data transfer.
This has greatly improved battery life on my phone.
Android used to let you disable 3G/4G data and just limit the phone to 2G data - - low bandwidth but adequate for syncing email and other tasks, much lower power usage. Unfortunately that option seems to have been removed.
Disabling 4G these days can often be counter productive for signal strength and battery life.
Oh well. :/
> Disabling 4G these days can often be counter productive for signal strength and battery life.
You can always have peace of mind with airplane mode or whole data disabled.
You can get rid of most, if not all, of that with Lineage OS.
>It brings a few essential tools to the Light Phone, like messaging, an alarm clock, or a ride home
And yet further down it says that these are not even definite features, but "some features that we might explore".
Clearly the appearance is the selling point. From a utility perspective flip/button phones make a lot more sense if you're only using them as phones.
$300 seems quite a stretch when there are a huge variety of dirt cheap dumb phones around. How about a Jenny TV 2.8 [1] with 175 hours standby for $30 at Amazon?
Or a Nokia 130 with up to a month of standby, which sells for around $25 in India. [2]
Kindle Paperwhite is 1420 mAh...