[trox]

I wonder where this is heading. The original light phone (version 1 if I remember correctly) was simply for calling and very minimalistic. To that I am a bit disappointed that they are adding more features instead of cutting prices.

[onli]

There were some background articles explaining they had to. The first version was too minimalist, not even the phone makers ended up using them. The set of the absolutely necessary services for a phone is bigger than one would think and it differs more - does it include maps? taxi services? texting? Answer will vary a lot, and by making it too minimalist they would end up satisfying no one.

It's interesting to see exactly that happening in the comments here - "if it only had X, Y and Z I would buy it".

[war1025]

> It's interesting to see exactly that happening in the comments here - "if it only had X, Y and Z I would buy it".

The classic response of anyone not financially invested in a product. Hopefully they follow through with their intention not to throw in the kitchen sink rather than burn all their resources trying to attract a picky customer base that has no intention of ever actually buying the phone.

[na85]

More and more, the voice calling feature is becoming obsolete. With the exception of hands free use in the car while driving, I essentially never use my phone to make calls.

Text is asynchronous and thus the other party can respond when it's convenient. I resent voice calls as an intrusion and rarely answer them.

[foobarian]

The next killer app for me is in the network and it's the SHAKEN/STIR validation helping to show some UI indicator of a "verified caller ID". Luckily it looks like mobile carriers will be there first and when they are it's game over for spam.