Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test

Replied to Light Flip is a flip phone with minimalist design and features (plus a keypad and T9 predictive text) by Brad Linder (Liliputing) The Light Flip is an upcoming cellphone that looks like an artifact from an alternate timeline where smartphones never took off. It has a class flip-phone design with a small screen on top and a number pad on bottom. I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other “minimalist” phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my “ideal” phone concept (creative concept photography included), I am always interested in seeing new ideas in the space. I called for open source software, QWERTY keyboard, and an e-ink screen. The Light Phone, which seems to be one of the more oft-covered “minimalist” phones, checks the e-ink box, but not the other two. Does that change with the new Light Phone? Not so, according to Brad Linder’s insightful report titled Light Flip is a flip phone with minimalist design and features (plus a keypad and T9…