Who would have thought that phones that do nothing would be back in style.
Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Candice Carrizales. Subscribe for more
social media news every day. We went from landlines to giant cell phones to Nokia
stick phones to flip phones to keyboard phones then to iPhones. And now we're
back. We're back to phones that only make calls and texts. I guess there are people
that want to live an Internet free life or maybe people that just don't want to
break the bank for a phone. It's the Light Phone 2 and it only costs $400.
Wait. What? That's not cheap. That's like the price of an iPhone. An iPhone SE. So
definitely not a money saver. So it's definitely for like minimalist reasons. The
phone first launched in 2014 being called the Light Phone. Not the Light
Phone 2 because the Light Phone 2 is the one that just came out. Just so we're
like clear and really understand each other. the original Light Phone could
only make calls and tell the time. Boring. The company themselves called the phone
quite a smart dumb phone. Very clever company. It kind of reminds me of the
Jitterbug. You know, that phone for elders. Or the Firefly. The phone for little kids.
It has like four buttons on it. You know, between the Jitterbug and the Firefly
you know there's not like an in-between phone, you know? And I feel like the Light
2 Phone is definitely the in-between phone for everyone between the ages of
children and elders. Does that make sense? So now people of all ages can own boring
phones. So what makes the Light Phone and the Light 2 Phone so different. Oh my God.
Great question. As I mentioned before, the OG Light Phone could only call and tell
the time, but the Light Phone 2 can call, it can text, it can oh my god set alarms.
Oh and it also has I quote "simple directions," which makes it sound like it
has a very bad or vague GPS system. So how many of these dang Light Phones
did they sell the first time around? Oh my God another great question
from you. They sold 10,000. Almost three years and
10,000 phones later to find ourselves asking how can we go light more often? I
guess in the scope of a start-up, 10,000 is like pretty good, but they're
definitely trying to reach more people with the Light Phone 2. The first Light
Phone kind of existed to just leave your iPhone at home sometimes and have like
an extra phone with you, but with the Light Phone 2, it's kind of made to
replace your smart phone. In an announcement for the new product, the
company said: "Enjoy a morning jog, a drink with an old friend, a night on the town
or a day at the park with your kids, waking up with a coffee and a good
book, a trip to the beach, or simply some time away from your Instagram." Okay, so
maybe at first I was skeptical of this phone, but when I read that quote you can
spend the day, all day at the park with your kids? It got me thinking, there has
to be parents that are just like on their emails constantly, looking at their
phone, and just not looking at their kids at the park. Uh huh. Yeah honey. Yeah hon.
That's great. That's so good. You're on the swing honey. Yeah hon. You look so
cute on the slide honey. Uh huh. Kind of sad, which makes me think maybe this phone
should be marketed to bad parents. Are you constantly refreshing your work
emails on your phone? Looking at your ex-wife's Facebook? And ooogling the
Instagram of Nicki Minaj? All while ignoring your kids? Then the Light Phone
2 may be the phone for you. Thank you everyone. That is my unpaid commercial for the Light
Phone 2. So even though this phone doesn't do too much, it still has 4G LTE which I
guess is for the simple instructions. But then I'm like wait you're still paying
for data, so you're paying $400 for a phone that doesn't do much and you're
still paying for data. You're probably ending up paying the same amount you
would pay for a smart phone. The phone will start shipping out early next year,
which means that's right you're gonna have to be addicted to your smartphone
for a whole year. I'm a freak for tech and I'll
mean to be turned this phone down because actually a lot of people online
liked the idea of this phone. Like celebrity Aaron Paul, from the hit TV
show Breaking Bad, tweeted: "This is amazing. We deserve to take our lives
back. I am always leaving my phone at home so
I can actually enjoy this beautiful planet of ours without distractions.
Bravo to the entire team over at @thelightphone. Check the link and share if
you agree." Someone else said: "I want the Light Phone 2, its beauty is in its
simplicity." Okay, people are into it. I just have a bad opinion. And Emily Osment,
star of Hannah Montana and the Young and the Hungry tweeted this: "I find it super
ironic and I wouldn't have even heard of the Light Phone 2 if I hadn't read the
article about it on my super overwrought, overused, highly addictive iPhone." And
someone else tweeted: "That #lightphone2 looks tempting though. But I
keep asking myself, is technology a distraction or a necessity in 2018?" I've
got to say this phone does seem to be coming at a very appropriate or
convenient time. Especially when nostalgia seems to be all the rave. I
mean look at me I'm wearing a fucking turtleneck like I'm Monica from Friends.
Also just the other day a startup company said they're bringing back the
Nokia banana phone made popular by the incredible movie The Matrix. Ever heard
of it? And it's being speculated right now that the Motorola RAZR is also
coming back. And when Kim Kardashian was in Tokyo recently, she was spotted with
what? A pink flip phone that looked like a Ferrari. She even posted it on her
Snapchat. I don't even know if I like the Light Phone or not at this point. I've
completely lost my identity in this video. Since I don't know how to feel
about the Light Phone 2, how do you feel about the Light Phone 2? Thanks for
watching this video/ I've been Candace Carrizales. If you'd
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