The Light Phone III is a phone designed to be used as little as possible — a way to step off infinite feeds and stay reachable.^1 Light, based in Brooklyn, was founded by artist Joe Hollier and product designer Kaiwei Tang after they met in a Google experimental program in 2014 and decided the world did not need another attention-seeking app.^2
It is an unlocked 5G and 4G LTE device with a 3.92-inch matte AMOLED display, USB-C, fingerprint ID, Bluetooth, NFC, nano SIM plus eSIM, and a 50-megapixel rear camera.^4 There is no browser, social media, email, news, or advertising.^6 Optional tools — alarm, calculator, music, podcasts, notes, calendar, hotspot, timer, directory, directions, album, weather, and authenticator — can be added or removed from a web dashboard.^6
Over ten years, more than 100,000 people have gone light.^1 LightOS continues to receive updates, and an open-source SDK lets others build additional tools for the Light Phone III.^7 Pastor Shane Lems writes that after leaving a smartphone, his mental health and attention span improved.^9
