Your phone is ruining your life. It's nothing to be ashamed of, really. We've all become so absorbed in the blinking, bleeping monsters in our pockets that even the gadgetmakers have started dispensing salves for excessive phone use. One of their more out-there "solutions": Start carrying two phones. There's a certain counterintuitive logic at work-shouldn't we have fewer phones? Maybe. But out of this existential panic, those who created our screen dependency and those who are committed to helping us fight it have come up with a tantalizing (and tantalizingly profitable) fix. It's not about getting off your phone, per se. It's about getting on a different one.This is the phone that will help you live your best life-a life in which Instagram, Slack, Facebook, and email are relegated to the back of your mind. Barely larger than a credit card, this phone relaxes your two-handed grip and liberates more of your pocket real estate. That other phone lures you into a Chinese finger trap. This gadget sets you free.Perhaps you're now thinking of the first phone you ever owned, Tamagotchi-like with its plastic body and tactile keypad. But these are not the phones of the 20th century. The Light Phone, for example, looks like a glowing calculator. It behaves like a portable landline-it makes and receives calls, through your main phone-and does little else. No internet, no GPS, no music, no texts. (A second version, due to ship sometime in 2019, adds an alarm clock and basic messaging.) With it, you can stash your addicta-phone in a drawer and not go completely off the grid.
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