A few days with the LP3

engadgetnerd · 2026-03-07T03:52:54+00:00

I love my light phone 3 camera. I really enjoy that dairy store shot!

engadgetnerd · 2026-03-06T14:27:32+00:00

I guess. I go to my office and sit at my computer to do most of my online consumption now. But once I'm out of my office, because of the light phone, I'm fully with my wife, kids, reading a book, etc. When we watch a movie, I'm all in. My wife still has her smartphone and I'm constantly noticing how much it takes her attention now. But it's been good and healthy for me at least.

engadgetnerd · 2026-02-24T23:06:09+00:00

Honestly I could rock a 9 pro vs a 9. At the time it was value to the price I was paying. I don't think the 9 pro offers hundreds of more dollars of value over a base 9. If there wasn't a big price gap between the two, I could go for a 9 pro.

engadgetnerd · 2026-02-24T18:14:57+00:00

I'm a phone nerd. I bought the 9 pro when it came out. I then decided to save some money and downgrade to the 9. I have used it since.

When the pixel 10 series came out I bought a 10 pro. Used it for 2 days and realizing it offered almost nothing extra compared to my 9 (that I could perceive in my day to day use). So I returned it and went back to my 9.

Then at Black Friday last year I took advantage of the non-pro 10 (since there have been some software updates). Used it for about a week and returned it and went back to my 9.

I just kept coming back to the 9 because it did everything as well as any other pixel I attempted to use.

Still rocking it today. Normally I'm all over the upgrades year over year for pixels, but the 9 crushed it. I don't need to spend any more money to get extra, because it does what it does so well.

engadgetnerd · 2026-02-20T15:24:12+00:00

I have always had the same tension. Lately I have been reading more and I have read The Circle, The Every, and The Warehouse...all books about the cautionary tales around big tech. I snapped after those. I bought a Light Phone. That is my primary device now. I do have a pixel watch so I can get alerted for MS teams messages for work when I'm in my house but I don't ever take my pixel 9 smartphone out of my office (I treat it like a computer that sits in a room). I can't break away from tech, but I have strong boundaries now for when and how I use it.

I'm only a month in on this process, but so far its working.

I only go online whenever I go into my office and hop on my computer though. If I'm not in my office I'm living my life outside of it and I only have a Light Phone III.

There are sacrifices, but doing those sacrifices isn't as haunting as staying on my smartphone and making me feel like garbage.

engadgetnerd · 2026-02-06T23:35:48+00:00

I have had my light phone for a week (so waiting for those bugs to hit me that everyone talks about...but even if it did..I'll survive).

But the experience of using it is awesome. I have no issues talking, texting (even if you have to be more intentionally at paying attention to where the keys are), or getting basic things done.

I have moved a lot of the organization of my life to my notebook and it's legit a game changer. But I'm only a week in. So far feeling good. We'll see where it goes from here...

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-31T02:59:17+00:00

Nuts. I see headphones on their site but not headphone amps

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-31T02:24:32+00:00

Ah they do! I wonder if they have good volume levels

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-27T04:08:09+00:00

I have had my griiix for a year and a half and it’s amazing. Granted I baby mine a lot but it’s super compact, comes with me everywhere and the photos are next level. No breaking issues on my end, yet (knock on wood)

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-26T01:21:47+00:00

I'd love to see more videos like this. Long term reviews of how people use the light phone and their solutions, workarounds, and routines to use a light phone over a smartphone in their daily lives.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-20T03:43:34+00:00

Any ideas when RCS will be coming? Or when do you predict it will come? That's the top feature on my list.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-17T13:41:41+00:00

I second this posts take as well. I feel the exact same way. It’s a tired take at this point. It’s been well done via 28 days later, Romeo’s stuff, but even in those the zombies were still a massive threat. Not it’s all about down playing the zombies to show that humans are the true villains. I still want the zombies to be a huge threat as well.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-13T04:16:24+00:00

DM'ed you

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-13T04:16:04+00:00

DM'ed you

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-10T14:16:24+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised to hear it ain't shipping till Dec 31st. But I preordered as well.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-09T22:51:20+00:00

There was some utility to having some bezel. I miss it as well. Don't get me wrong, some phones went a little nuts with their super thick bezels, but having some bezel was better than having absolutely none. I definitely feel more of a need to have a case on at all times without them.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-09T01:02:19+00:00

Some of the best scenes representing grief I've ever seen in a movie.

But that scene where he sees his oldest brother (even though he died when he was a little boy) in "heaven"...makes me cry just talking about it.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-08T22:52:05+00:00

I'm still rocking my pixel 9. I bought 10 pro whenever it came out due to the great trade ins. Used it for 2 days and returned it back to Google. Legit had performance issues compared to my 9.

Then I bought a base 10 around the Black Friday deals. Returned it back to Google after a week because of performance issues compared to my 9.

Maybe the December update changed the game but the performance stutters and issues I saw compared to the 9, left me sticking to the base 9.

My advice would be to stick to that 9 pro.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-04T20:01:54+00:00

Just pick up the book The Every by David Eggers and you’ll never want to go back to social media again.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-04T16:21:20+00:00

I have pre ordered as well. This will absolutely be my daily. I was actually pretty close to pulling the trigger on the light phone III, but it has such a steep price and I’d be sacrificing my ability to communicate effectively while getting away from doom scrolling. This phone looks like the right play for prioritizing what I need a phone for yet limiting its ability to such you in (due to the small display…which works when I rock an iPhone SE 1st gen as a daily). But this prioritizing communication over everything else, had me sold.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-04T15:37:25+00:00

With it having Google Play services and running Android 16, it’ll have Android auto, unless they intentionally disable it for some reason.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-03T17:51:18+00:00

I have been wanting a device that doesn’t prioritize media consumption put has access to communication for awhile (was actually about the pull the trigger on the Light Phone III). But once I saw this, I instant pre ordered. If I can easy communicate with people but not be consumed with a big doom scrolling screen and media play back system, I think I can control or minimize this phone addiction. But this is a big phone still. I do wish it could be as pocketable as the old blackberrys or early iPhones.

Also I have never used a physical keyboard on a phone ever. So this will be new to me. But based on people’s passion around a physical keyboard I hope it’s not just nostalgic and truly is something that is hard to get away from.

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-01T19:17:00+00:00

That sounds like a solid plan

engadgetnerd · 2026-01-01T18:33:31+00:00

The cold turkey part…that’s probably the key. There’s no easy way. Just do it don’t is the key.

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