Why not a Punkt for less money? Or a Nokia for a lot less money.

I really don't get these things. They say nothing about security, privacy, or updates on their site.

You want basic functionality for cheap, that's the updated Nokia from 20 years ago. You want a decent modern phone with security, privacy, updates, and black and white icons? Get a Pixel, put GrapheneOS on it and download Articons.

This thing is a mashup of a candy bar phone and a 15 year old iPod, but unlike those things you can't actually buy one, you need to prefund the company and wait another 7 months.

Can't use it until it supports Signal, so that's a no from me, dog.

$400 ?! Way, what, no, base price $800 ?!?! Interesting niche product, but come on...

Love to see it, I want more phones like this, idk I almost want a Light Phone with a microSD card slot for music/documents/files.

I know that goes against the whole super simple, less is more theme. However. I like options & I think every single phone should have expandable memory. Even Apple. When that feature isn't present in a smartphone, that is the company ripping you off.

The ability to take pictures & store them on a microSD card. Back up your phone, files & settings. Anything you want...and that phone can consequently fail or be destroyed, but you extract that card & you've got what you need? That feature is cheap to implement, that security is priceless. And that is what companies have stolen from all of us.

...anyway. Other than that, the 3 looks great. Love the small form factor & everything about it. I'm almost willing to buy it, anyway. I'm sad they don't have microSD, I am disappointed but I'm not surprised.

I was interested in the lightphone ii because of its small size and eink display. Now its just a big phone with a normal screen like every other.

At this point they might as well just release their os rom so you can get the lightphone expierence without having to buy new hardware.