This is still 2-4 years out in the current iteration. I am waiting for the Light Phone 3 to drop in 2025 to make the final decision on it. (Don’t have the cash To drop $800 right now. A New MacBook is more pressing.)
Basically I am suffering from smartphone fatigue. I long for a clear line between online and offline. I have loved Apple since the iPod days and would buy a new classic in a heartbeat. Alas the world has moved on. The Watch has potential to be the minimalist phone I want but it is still seen as an iPhone accessory which I find frustrating.
I have a Samsung HM5000 Bluetooth handset, it’s roughly the size of a marker, paired to my Apple Watch to help use it as a phone more and leave my actual phone (a Pro Max) in my bag or at home more often. I bought the HM5000 with the Note 2 when it came out. I didn’t keep the phone very long, but this little handset has come in handy.
If and when I do the Light Phone I am going back to more traditional watches and hybrids from Garmin. For me the question is Smart Watch or Smartphone I dont need 2 computers on me at all times.
I’ll probably be doing the same thing. Having to charge my watch every day was really getting old. Now that Apple has dropped support for the SE only two years after rolling out the SE2 I been thinking of trying something else that can receive notifications.
Trying to solve my tech fatigue with more tech is not working out as well as I hoped. Asking my phone company to make their phone accessory a true phone might be bridge too far.
