Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderDo the makers think that there's a sizeable portion of people that hate their iPhones or Galaxies and want to spend $350 on a phone that doesn't do things? Doesn't do social media, doesn't do email, doesn't do news. Most consumers would at this point ask "What's the fucking point?" Smartphones are popular because people want to do the things that they enable. You probably need to live in some sort of a niche social circle in order to justify…
I wish someone tried to compete with iphone 12 mini instead of producing these utterly niche phones: - just make it comfortable using with one hand (5 inch or less) - don't put 100W 32 core processor and 16 gigs of RAM - place a decent camera without 5 eyes staring from the back panel (I get anxiety from looking at the back of that Samsung Galaxy that has these) - burn the fucking monobrows or cutouts for a cam…
I must admit I don't really see this products major benefits over other ways of achieving the same thing (a secondary phone with call forwarding from the main smartphone). Their price is $100 and with that there's the usual risks of kickstarter delays/cancellations. But as an alternative things like the nokia 130 (http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/130/specifications/) are already available cheaper have a longer battery life and proven track record... That said the kickstarter already has £250k so they've…
Strange concept. I get more SMS messages than calls these days. 2G-only makes it obsolete already in a number of countries - just as Nokia rushed to release a 3G version of their dumbphone recently.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 394
- Total comments
- 452
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-25 | The Light Phone | chintan39 | 13 | 8 |
| 2016-01-26 | The Light Phone | samsolomon | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-02-12 | The Light Phone: Leave your smartphone behind | spdustin | 4 | 3 |
| 2019-09-09 | The Light Phone | yitchelle | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-09-12 | Light Phone II | spking | 2 | 2 |
| 2020-01-03 | The Light PhoneFirst breakout · Best thread | lelf | 240 | 277 |
| 2021-08-14 | The Light Phone: Minimal SmartphoneLatest 20+ point return | keiferski | 119 | 157 |
| 2023-10-20 | The Light Phone – designed to be used as little as possible | shortlived | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-10-21 | The Light Phone | helloplanets | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-01-11 | The Light Phone | varun_chopra | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-01-17 | The Light Phone | nullhole | 2 | 2 |
| 2024-01-25 | The Light Phone | night-rider | 2 | 2 |
| 2025-01-03 | The Light Phone | Alifatisk | 1 | 0 |