The minimum review of the phone: a medium -free land

Escape from the screen It is not easy. When I tested Light Phone III in March– A phone designed to strip the applications and focus on the basics – I quickly found the number of small things you needed from my smartphone, from accessing safety cameras in my home to authentication applications so that I can log in to the web services on the laptop. Sometimes, it is not easy to reach the cold Türkiye. But this is the place The minimum phone steps.

This is it Android phone With a physical keyboard and an electronic touch screen. It looks like a kindle He had a child with a BlackBerry. Unlike most Anti -entering products This provides a variety of basic phone functions, which gives you the minimum access to any application through the Google Play store like the regular Android phone. But the experiment is hindered by the 4.3 -inch small electronic paper screen that needs a fixed update. The keyboard will also slow you down. This is the frustrated smartphone experience type of this point.

I entered the bed one night, and ready for my usual time Doomscrolling rituals. While my wife was wandering around Tiktok, I looked at my phone and went to my wife, “I cannot wander!” I deviated from the sigh of relief, put my phone down, and went to bed. This does not mean that I woke up in a magical way the next day with the best sleep in my life – using your phone Before bed He can It affects sleepBut it has proven one thing: the phone has the minimum work in cutting my time on social media.

ghost town

Photo: Julian Chocato

The difference in the quality of construction between the minimum phone and the III light phone is blatant. The latter mixes glass and minerals, while the minimum is almost completely plastic. It is a lightweight feeling, and I must say, a little cheap. This does not help immediately after canceling the boxes directly, the back of the phone was already laughing with stains, as if you had just ate a bag of Cheetos (I hope). Perhaps for this reason the company It sells dbrand skins To cover up it.

On the right edge, there is a power button with a fingerprint scanner in it, and it is somewhat reliable. The bottom includes a USB-C charging port and headphone socket. On the left edge, there is a SIM tray, which supports MicroSD cards to expand storage if not 128 GB enough. The sound buttons are divided by the “E -Paper Update” button, and the button that you will press more may be.

This leads us to a 4.3 -inch touch screen, which is not large. This is largely because when you scroll or move through web pages and menus, there is a lot of shades – a dimmed image of the previous text that you stare. Even one or two manuscripts and you will need to hit this electronic paper update button freely to remove these artifacts-which quickly become a troublesome step.

It also does not help that a monochrome screen does not play well in lighter colors on the specified web sites, although the pages containing a black and white text mostly, such as Wired.com, look good. Fortunately, I haven’t had any problems reading a shiny screen in any lighting position. You can adjust the temperature and brightness of the screen color to suit your eyes, and there is no glow.

The transition throughout the Android 14 operating system can be somewhat slow, but this is largely just the speed of the electronic paper screen. From a performance point of view, it appears to be well formed with the MediaTek Helio G99 slides group inside. I was given, I don’t recommend trying mobile games.

The main screen displays the list of shortcuts with basic applications, such as phone, messages, camera, calendar and calculator. There is the Notes app, which is virtual to open Google Keep. (You can remove and add a new by clicking on the name of the app for a long time in the stairs.) You used the phone like any other test, even using Google Maps to move and Google Pay to pay to material retailers, although you have a subpar experience with some applications more than others.

Light phone

Photo: Julian Chocato

You will not want to do certain things on the minimum phone. Watching videos, playing games, and passing through social media, does not comply well with the electronic paper screen and the slow update. YouTube videos and Instagram are both feeling staring at a strong light, with screen flashing with each frame. Click and hold on the electronic paper update button, and you will find the “Ultra” update making this a little better, but the quality diminishes greatly, and everything appears as a point. (Usually I kept it in “Hybrid”, which turns into Ultra when passing or when playing the video.)