It's been almost a year now since I kicked social media on my phone and the difference in my health/mental and otherwise has been great. Really looking forward to this year now I'm smartphone free (since august), still thinking of maybe switching my mudita kompakt for the lightphone 3 (i hear that I can do group texting on the lightphone which I can't on my current one). I'm recommending folks get off their phones all the time now, so evangelical! At xmas it's very obvious to see the attachment to them around you when you've kicked the habit yourself (although I never used
mine at meals/restaurants etc like some folk seem to want to do!).
I'm really encouraged seeing younger generations (I'm 50 in september) moving to more analog existences where they can and shunning the online space more and more. It gives me hope!
Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that 2025 was a good year. Hope 2026 is an even better one! Also, the Mudita can do group texts if you enable the setting under the messages settings. You have to be on the latest version, but they just enabled this feature about 2 weeks ago :)
Yeah it won't work with my tariff unfortunately! I don't know why that is. I need to look into it to see what it would cost to include that or whether I have to change to a different carrier or tariff.
I hope 2026 is great for you too Jose! How are you enjoying the Lightphone? Still loving it?
Still rocking the Light Phone 3. The latest update made it better for me since I use a bike to commute most days. They added bike navigation and some other quality of life features. Excited about their 2026. It's going to be a lot of improvements and new features that I think will help people who are transitioning from smartphones :)
Ooh that's exciting. I saw that they might at some point also come out of pre-order too. That might be when I go for it (I prefer the way it looks), if I can make my next kickstarter a success it'll be my reward to myself!
It's been almost a year now since I kicked social media on my phone and the difference in my health/mental and otherwise has been great. Really looking forward to this year now I'm smartphone free (since august), still thinking of maybe switching my mudita kompakt for the lightphone 3 (i hear that I can do group texting on the lightphone which I can't on my current one). I'm recommending folks get off their phones all the time now, so evangelical! At xmas it's very obvious to see the attachment to them around you when you've kicked the habit yourself (although I never used
mine at meals/restaurants etc like some folk seem to want to do!).
I'm really encouraged seeing younger generations (I'm 50 in september) moving to more analog existences where they can and shunning the online space more and more. It gives me hope!
Happy New year Jose!
Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that 2025 was a good year. Hope 2026 is an even better one! Also, the Mudita can do group texts if you enable the setting under the messages settings. You have to be on the latest version, but they just enabled this feature about 2 weeks ago :)
Yeah it won't work with my tariff unfortunately! I don't know why that is. I need to look into it to see what it would cost to include that or whether I have to change to a different carrier or tariff.
I hope 2026 is great for you too Jose! How are you enjoying the Lightphone? Still loving it?
Still rocking the Light Phone 3. The latest update made it better for me since I use a bike to commute most days. They added bike navigation and some other quality of life features. Excited about their 2026. It's going to be a lot of improvements and new features that I think will help people who are transitioning from smartphones :)
Ooh that's exciting. I saw that they might at some point also come out of pre-order too. That might be when I go for it (I prefer the way it looks), if I can make my next kickstarter a success it'll be my reward to myself!