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Re:The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone by Animats on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:37AM (#28186674)
Why is this a "pre-order"? This outfit was posting "reviews" over 16 months ago, as if it were a real product, back in March 2020.[1] They had a product back in 2018.[2] They had some Indiegogo thing in 2017-2018.

[1] https://thismatters.blog/2020/03/01/going-light-part-4-first...

[2] https://www.inc.com/wanda-thibodeaux/how-this-dumb-phone-is-...

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Re:The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone by jazzyjackson on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:31AM (#28187127)
They shipped, there’s a couple on eBay being bid on… if I had to guess Kyocera poached their supplier of 600x480 2.8” e-ink displays with their KY‑01L, which you can buy by the dozen
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Re:The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone by pineconebutt on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:05PM (#28212194)
You're pre-ordering a phone from their latest production batch. It's real; I already own one myself.
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