I switched to the premium dumbphone everyone's talking about, and it puts E Ink to shame

• The Light Phone 3 is available now with support from many major carriers for $599.
• It's setting a new standard for simplified phones by combining a sleek, minimal product with a focused purpose.
• I wish the battery lasted longer, there are still some features in development, and it's not exactly cheap.

Much attention has been paid to the idea of a "dumbphone." We've all had the thought: how liberating it would be to ditch the smartphone forever, freeing yourself from the shackles of social media, the endless stream of notifications, and after-hours work emails. 

The problem is that we're used to a certain aesthetic experience. The idea of going back to a flip phone or lo-fi early-2000s Motorola might be exciting in theory, but navigating a 2.8-inch display, physical buttons, or worse -- T9 texting -- is, in practice, more trouble than it's worth. 

Also: I ...