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Can the Light Phone 3 Replace My iPhone · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: I have been losing hours of my day to doom scrolling,
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  Speaker 1: getting sucked into Instagram and TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: But this phone says that it can fix that. This
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  Speaker 2: is the light Phone three, and it is a dumb
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  Speaker 2: down phone for the modern era.
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  Speaker 1: But can it really be the phone replacement that I
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  Speaker 1: need and give me all of the essential tools to
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  Speaker 1: get through a day.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it to the test and see if we
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  Speaker 2: can prove it.
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  Speaker 1: All of the setup for this phone is done online
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  Speaker 1: via lights dashboard. There, you can choose which tools to
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  Speaker 1: add to your device. You can upload music to listen
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  Speaker 1: to because the light Phone currently does not support streaming.
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  Speaker 1: You can import your contacts, you can import your calendars,
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  Speaker 1: and you can import the RSS feeds of your favorite podcasts.
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  Speaker 3: The light Phone.
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  Speaker 1: Three will never have email, internet browsing, news ads, or
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  Speaker 1: social media.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye doom scrolls. You can't do that here. Now I've
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  Speaker 2: decided that tomorrow is the day that.
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  Speaker 1: I try and live without my iPhone. That's right, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna replace it with the light Phone three.
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  Speaker 2: In order to hold myself accountable. I am putting this
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  Speaker 2: phone into this mesh bag.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there are a couple things tomorrow that
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely cannot do without my iPhone. Stay tuned at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the video to see how well I
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  Speaker 1: did and how many times I actually needed this throughout
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  Speaker 1: the day. Starting my day off with the light Phone three,
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  Speaker 1: I realize that there's no way to snooze, so after
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  Speaker 1: accidentally silencing the alarm, I woke up and took on
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 2: Thirteen minutes later.
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  Speaker 1: Whoops, right now, the light phone is not phoning. I
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  Speaker 1: sent this like ten minutes ago, still sus sending. I've
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  Speaker 1: quickly rebooted the operating system and powered the phone on
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  Speaker 1: and off, and now service is restored and I can
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  Speaker 1: send messages again. But I just got a text from
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  Speaker 1: my friend Sam. When you receive a photo on the
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  Speaker 1: light Phone three, it comes in as a little picture icon.
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  Speaker 1: To actually see the image, you have to go to
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  Speaker 1: your email and I'm gonna respond and I'm gonna use
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  Speaker 1: the voice to text. I typed out what I said,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to food an emoji. There we go,
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  Speaker 1: hands held high.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we are finally off to the office to work
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the day. From there, I'm also going
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  Speaker 4: to cueue up some music for my commute. It feels
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  Speaker 4: like I'm using an iPod.
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  Speaker 3: I am listening to my own song that might be
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  Speaker 3: a little narcissistic.
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  Speaker 1: While the light Phone three has an NFC hip in it,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have a digital wallet just yet, so I
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  Speaker 1: have to dig an old Metro card out of my bag.
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  Speaker 1: It's really nice not to have social media access on
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  Speaker 1: the train. However, I'm realizing that the message I tried
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  Speaker 1: to send earlier still hasn't sent, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: try to copy and paste and resend it. Typing on
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  Speaker 1: this phone is such a challenge for me. The screen
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  Speaker 1: isn't super sensitive, and I feel like it doesn't properly
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  Speaker 1: register where I'm touching when I touch it, so it's
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  Speaker 1: taking a lot of tries to get this message sent.
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  Speaker 1: On my walk into the office, I'm stopping by Washington
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  Speaker 1: Square Park to test out the camera on the light
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  Speaker 1: Phone three. I like that the screen on this phone
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  Speaker 1: is matt and that you can easily adjust the brightness
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  Speaker 1: with the wheel on the left hand side of the device.
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  Speaker 1: That's making shooting in the bright sunlight a lot easier. However,
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  Speaker 1: the camera is super basic and it has the feel
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  Speaker 1: of an early two thousands point and shoot.
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  Speaker 3: I got a text from my friend Andrew. I can't
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  Speaker 3: click on the link.
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking up to the office now and I might
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  Speaker 1: have to take my iPhone out. I need an app
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  Speaker 1: on that phone to unlock the door and buzz into
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe someone's.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be there and won't answer the door when I
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  Speaker 1: ring the doorbell, and I won't have to take my
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  Speaker 1: phone out. In Now that I'm in and I have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to check my email, I'm gonna look for
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  Speaker 1: Andrew's booking link from that text message. I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: care of scheduling those sessions now. I tried to run
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  Speaker 1: an errand and deposit a check at the Chase Bank
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  Speaker 1: ATM down the street, but since I don't bank with Chase,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't deposit it there. I'm back at my desk
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  Speaker 1: and I am gonna want my iPhone because I need
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  Speaker 1: to cash this check. I wanted to hit my bank
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  Speaker 1: account before the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I just I have to. It's nearly ninety degrees
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  Speaker 3: in New York today and I would love to find
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  Speaker 3: some ice cream or some Vagan ice cream or something
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  Speaker 3: really nice to cool off with. Have a nice little tree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm using the light phone three's directory tool to look
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  Speaker 1: up some locations and found the Ralph's closest to me.
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  Speaker 1: From here, I'm able to click on the little map
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  Speaker 1: icon on the screen and use the light Phone three
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  Speaker 1: to get step by step walking directions. Ooh, I just
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  Speaker 1: got an aorification from the phone.
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  Speaker 3: It said after forty feet, I'll reach my destination.
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  Speaker 2: And there it is.
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  Speaker 1: And since I can't pay with my Apple wallet today,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good thing that I have.
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  Speaker 2: Cash on me.
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  Speaker 3: So there's this guy who wheels an upper piano out
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  Speaker 3: to different parks in the city, and usually every time
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  Speaker 3: I see him, I take out my phone, I take
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  Speaker 3: a video I instagram it not being able to instagram
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  Speaker 3: it felt great. And now we're back to the office
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  Speaker 3: to continue working.
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  Speaker 2: Is anybody here to answer the doorbell?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Nami true Well, you saved me from having to
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  Speaker 1: use my iPhone. We have made it to the end
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  Speaker 1: of my day with the light Phone three, and I
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  Speaker 1: am off to meet my boyfriend Alden at the Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Park. Shakeshack, Hi, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Did we prove it?
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  Speaker 1: Did this phone have the essentials that I needed to
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  Speaker 1: get through the day?
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  Speaker 2: For those keeping.
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  Speaker 1: Score, I only had to take my iPhone out of
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  Speaker 1: this mesh prison once and that was to deposit the check.
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  Speaker 1: I made it through the day with the light Phone three,
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  Speaker 1: but I would not want to make it through every
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  Speaker 1: day with the light Phone three. I couldn't imagine to
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  Speaker 1: the office.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do online banking.
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  Speaker 1: However, on a day where I'm looking to do a
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  Speaker 1: digital detox, or perhaps i want to spend a weekend
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  Speaker 1: off the Instagram grid life, Phone three would be really
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  Speaker 1: awesome for that because I can still make plans to
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  Speaker 1: meet up with friends.
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  Speaker 2: We have text messages or phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: I can look up directions to where I'm going, and
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  Speaker 1: I can find business and location info, and if I
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  Speaker 1: really really want to, I can take a photo or
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  Speaker 1: a video. They're not going to be great photos or videos,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a photo or a video. Nonetheless, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: hanging out during my digital detos today, and I will
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  Speaker 1: catch you next time I'm out running around