Review: Light Phone III

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“You don't drive a bus everywhere you go,” Kaiwei Tang tells me in a large startup lab in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City. He's a cofounder of Light Phone.

The bus in this analogy is a smartphone, and all the seats are apps. As the driver, you're trying to focus on the road, but all of the notifications from your passenger apps on this very packed bus are vying for your attention, distracting you from what's right in front of your eyes. Tang believes you can get by with, say, a bicycle—one seat, no distractions, getting you from point A to point B. In this case, the bicycle is the Light Phone III ...