The menu page offers three options: Phone, Alarm, and Settings. Under Settings, I could toggle on airplane mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, adjust notifications, time/date format, and account settings. I chose to let the phone alert me when a new text or call came in, which appeared as an understated asterisk next to the time on the home screen. The sound options are pleasing; no sirens here, just gentle, spa-like chimes. I tested the alarm function, which easily allowed me to set one alarm. There’s no snooze, so it’s perhaps not my most reliable a.m. wake-up clock, but it was still useful to have the alarm when I needed a nudge to finish a task.
Within the Phone option, you can search contacts, select their name, and either call or text them. However, if you have multiple numbers for one person, each number will display as a different contact, so you may wind up texting or calling a couple of numbers to figure out if it’s a cell or landline. There’s no ability to save favorite contacts, but once you’ve reached out to someone, their name or number appears in your log, which is what I ultimately referred to for reaching out to those I needed most.
Texting on such a tiny keyboard is a painful exercise. In order to text, by default, the screen turns from portrait to landscape, and you must very precisely key in your message, as there’s no T9 or autocorrect. A cursor isn’t an option, so if you make a mistake or want to edit text, you have to manually delete, and sometimes there’s a lag when you do so.
It’s not easy, but this did make my texting strategy more concise. I found myself asking: Do I really need to text this? Could this be a phone call? Could this conversation wait entirely? All things I never normally consider before firing off a paragraph. By the end of the weekend, I relished the challenge of concise texting, especially since a subtle, haptic vibration resonates across the phone every time I type a letter, punctuating my decisions.
Similarly, calling isn’t a seamless venture. Because I’m 84 at heart, I was amazed that a device that small can receive calls. But the volume only has four levels, and the speaker is faint. In order to best hear callers, I hooked up earbuds via Bluetooth pairing (which the phone offers), and the sound still wasn’t ideal. Perhaps this was also by design because I ended up not calling anyone unless necessary.
Other things I learned using the Light Phone: You can receive emojis but not text them. You cannot see photos, though you will receive an icon that denotes a photo file. Friends claimed to send me audio messages, but at this time there’s no ability to send or receive them. There’s no voicemail, though when I later transferred my SIM card back to my iPhone, the voicemails I missed emerged after a restart. There is a hotspot capability, a calculator, and the ability to upload some music, and according to Light, later this year, they’ll add ride-share, voice memo, reminder, notes, calendar, weather, directions, dictionary, and Find My Phone options.
Fingers crossed for the addition of directions at some point too, because—I hate to admit this—I still carried my iPhone in my bag over the weekend. I live in New York City, and though I mapped my routes before travel like we did back in the Mapquest days, the idea of having zero access to directions when navigating trains during a pandemic gave me enough pause to bring it, just in case.
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