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There doesn't even seem to be anything smart-ish about it, except that it uses the same form factor.

>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]

[1] http://bluproducts.com/jenny-tv-2-8

[2] https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-130