[giraffe333]

I backed the Light Phone 2 with the thought that it's kind of like being an early Tesla buyer. People buy the Tesla to look cool, sure, but some also buy it because they want to see a world where cars become something they weren't before, and solve problems with existing cars (pollution, etc).

I'd love to see a world where people talk to each other again rather than sit at lunch, dinner, watching TV, whatever, with their phones out and ignoring each other. There aren't a lot of phones in this space so backing something like this may help create the market I want to see. I don't want to "live disconnected", but I do want to limit my behaviors like "hey let me interrupt this conversation so you can watch while I google that random thing we'll forget about in a minute".

Previously I had an LG slider phone with a physical qwerty keyboard for 5-6 years before buying the Light Phone 2.

I also hate the size of current smart phones, they're just so big. I'm weird I know, but I actually liked the size of my iphone 3G.

As a software engineer I'm hoping they get the custom "tools" available soon so I can tinker with that. I'd like to experiment with making a 2FA tool like Authy or some kind of push notification.

All in all, the Light Phone 2 is kind of slow to use, but it works, and it's not red like my LG was, so it starts less conversations when I use it.