Another expensive phone like The Light Phone that seems to ignore the existence of feature phones.
$300 is vastly overpriced for either this or The Light Phone. On top of that, you have to deal with a long wait and a company without any sort of track record.
What you really want is $80 basic cell phone that’s already sold by the likes of Nokia, Alcatel, etc and given away for free by prepaid phone carriers.
The disturbing part is that the “premium” features of this phone are sold as snake oil for the paranoid.
> You can choose between white light and the sunset light, which is closer to red. It promotes the secretion of melatonin, resulting in an improved sleeping quality.
Let me get this straight, they’re claiming that this phone’s flashlight will help you secrete melatonin? That’s a big fat “citation needed” and an outright lie.
A low SAR value is similarly not a feature. Are they even being specific about how their value compares to other phones? They seem to just say “ours is lower, trust us.” And their SAR page is incredibly misleading, and even though it’s very long it doesn’t even seem to tell us what the value is for this phone. Is it lower than a typical iPhone? We don’t know. We are just treated to a bunch of WiFi sensitivity paranoia and what I can only assume are misleading citations of scientific studies.
> That is not to say that extended exposure to non-ionizing radiation isn’t harmful, we know that it is.
I don’t know that it is. You’re telling me that it is to try and sell a $300 feature phone, on IndieGoGo, where you can just take my money and run.
You're behind the times on the red light/melatonin feature. It's now built into probably every major OS. Windows calls it Night Light. Apple calls it Night Shift. Android calls it Night Mode. I used to use the f.lux app on Linux but now it's built into GNOME. Try it out, it's pretty easy to feel the difference, IMO.
I don't think he is talking about the screen, they advertise it for both the flashlight and the backlight. The quote comes from the flashlight of the phone, which has two models, one white and another "sunlight-like" for melatonin.
But the whole thing makes me wonder, who uses the flashlight that much (near her eyes) for it to even start affecting your circadian rhythm.
TL;DR: The screen sure, the flashlight, I doubt it.
> You can choose between white light and the sunset light, which is closer to red.
My question was why would this feature exist at all if this phone is not meant for people to spend time looking at its screen but, you know, offline. It's like trying throwing in a pair of off-road bike gloves wehen selling a bed.
I don't see the solution that this phone offers that can't be resolved by purchasing older generation phones.
It looks aesthetically beautiful and the technology behind is great, but it's a solution looking for a problem. Like all the concentration apps/services that people are installing, turning off is a problem of the mind/body that can't be fixed by going 'we need more tech up in here'.
Self Control is an art, however my goal is not to limit distraction, but to have a small feature phone ( whatsapp, skype, gps (maps)) and a nice tablet for everything else. The requirements are being met by smartwatches+ smartphones+tablets but that is one too many devices for me.
Take a look at Unihertz Atom - that's my current choice. It is a smartphone that can do it all, but has an annoyingly tiny screen so you won't sit on it for life.
Is there any value in advertising less "radiation exposure"? I thought this was an answered question, that cell phone radiation is non-ionizing and has no health effects.
And also, even if your cell phone isn't projecting, you're bathing in cell tower waves all the time (which is why you have a signal).
I'm sure the inverse square law probably applies here as far as strength but the overall point holds, correct?
I would actually be interested in something like this if it were open source. But as it is I actually need a few services like telegram to be on my phone, and here I can’t even program it into the messages app myself.
I have a caterpillar b35 phone. Battery last long. You don’t fiddle and waste time with it. Also has an iPhone. It’s good to relearn to be offline. Ie not a mobile phone zombie :).
$300 is vastly overpriced for either this or The Light Phone. On top of that, you have to deal with a long wait and a company without any sort of track record.
What you really want is $80 basic cell phone that’s already sold by the likes of Nokia, Alcatel, etc and given away for free by prepaid phone carriers.
The disturbing part is that the “premium” features of this phone are sold as snake oil for the paranoid.
> You can choose between white light and the sunset light, which is closer to red. It promotes the secretion of melatonin, resulting in an improved sleeping quality.
Let me get this straight, they’re claiming that this phone’s flashlight will help you secrete melatonin? That’s a big fat “citation needed” and an outright lie.
A low SAR value is similarly not a feature. Are they even being specific about how their value compares to other phones? They seem to just say “ours is lower, trust us.” And their SAR page is incredibly misleading, and even though it’s very long it doesn’t even seem to tell us what the value is for this phone. Is it lower than a typical iPhone? We don’t know. We are just treated to a bunch of WiFi sensitivity paranoia and what I can only assume are misleading citations of scientific studies.
> That is not to say that extended exposure to non-ionizing radiation isn’t harmful, we know that it is.
I don’t know that it is. You’re telling me that it is to try and sell a $300 feature phone, on IndieGoGo, where you can just take my money and run.