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This beautiful credit card-sized phone just might cure your smartphone addiction

Jan 10, 2017, 19:52 IST

Light works out of New Lab, a tech incubator with a manufacturing focus that's located in Brooklyn's historic Navy Yard.

The startup was founded by Joe Hollier, left, and Kai Tang.

Light got its start in September 2014 with the mission to "bring a human voice back into this crazy world of technology." The company began working on its first product, the Light Phone: a phone that's designed to be your "phone away from your phone."

Here's Tang working on an early prototype of the Light Phone.

Light got its start in September 2014 with the mission to "bring a human voice back into this crazy world of technology." The company began working on its first product, the Light Phone: a phone that's designed to be your "phone away from your phone."

Here's Tang working on an early prototype of the Light Phone.

The product is more than just technical; it's philosophical. Light cares a lot about the importance of disconnecting from the digital world and appreciating what's around you.

That theme is carried into Light's branding and packaging for the phone. It comes inside a book where every page is a different image of what you could see if you'd just look up from your phone every once in a while.

That theme is carried into Light's branding and packaging for the phone. It comes inside a book where every page is a different image of what you could see if you'd just look up from your phone every once in a while.

The Light Phone works independently of your phone plan, but Light's technology allows you to keep the same number. Since it's not paired to your main phone in any other way, you can leave your phone at home and bring only the Light Phone with you.

The device is a phone in the most traditional sense of the word. It can't text and it can't connect to WiFi or Bluetooth.

Light's founders came up with the size and shape of the phone when thinking about what items people almost always carry with them: an ID and a credit card.

It's incredibly thin. So thin, in fact, that it can unobtrusively slip into the front pocket of a shirt...

...or a pair of jeans.

The phone has a light-up LED interface and is entirely touchscreen, except for a button on the top and the left side.

That said, you'll only see one of six different modes displayed on your screen.

Light is currently building the phones at a Foxconn factory in Yantai, China. Foxconn is the same manufacturer that produces Apple gadgets.

When you pre-order the Light Phone via the company's website, you can choose between two colors. This is the black edition of the Light Phone, called the "Night Version."

The Light Phone costs $150, plus $5 per month for a SIM card and Light's software platform.

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