[kilroy123]

Looks like a blatant copy of the light.

https://www.thelightphone.com

[sm4rk0]

It's just another minimalistic phone with an e-ink display. Different enough (numeric keypad, no touch screen) not to be called a blatant copy.

[Fnoord]

Competition is good.

Light Phone II is 300 USD.

There was a FOSS project announced on crowdfunding platform, called Blloc [1]. Its a launcher for Android, for minimal, distraction free use.

[1] https://www.blloc.com

[chadlavi]

Probably ironically, none of the stuff on that site will load in my phone's browser unless I turn off content blockers

[circularfoyers]

I don't see any mention of Blloc being free and open source software in their website.

[Fnoord]

My bad, it isn't.

It is however privacy and non-distraction/advertising focused. Makes sense it costs money (it is free, but the killer feature Tree Tile costs money).

[ForHackernews]

If the operating system is open and they release an SDK, that will be a big improvement over the lightphone.