Smartphones are nice. They’re additionally… quite a bit. The thought of a more balanced device, one that provides you the entire most essential and helpful options of a smartphone however retains you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an attractive one for a very long time. Nailing that steadiness, although, seems to be nearly inconceivable.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to get it proper. The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the present to speak about the new Light Phone III, after which we run by way of an inventory of some dozen issues your telephone can do and we surprise in case your good, sane, practical telephone ought to be capable to do them. Some issues are simple, some are surprisingly troublesome. We’re nonetheless undecided what to do with Snapchat.
Lastly, we reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (name 866-VERGE11, or electronic mail vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether or not anybody is engaged on an in-home digicam that may let you know the place you left the scissors. It’s a difficult downside to resolve, however there are a lot of folks working on it. (Perhaps not particularly for scissors, although.)
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