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importantSYS.SOURCE: TechCrunch2026-07-29T14:00:00Z

Light's Co-Founders Discuss Development of Simpler Flip Phone for Anti-Smartphone Movement

Light's co-founders discuss their decade-long effort to create a simpler flip phone, targeting the anti-smartphone movement. The product aims to address growing concerns about digital overuse and Big Tech's influence.

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players like Andrew Yang, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Davidson. Now, with a new flip phone and a growing wave of “attention activists” pushing back against Big Tech, they think the rest of […]

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