So the blloc zero18 is basically a standard android phone that has gray scale on by default and lets you display color with the touch sensor.
Light phone 2 review reddit.
You still have text based distractions but i d bet those wouldn t keep people attached to their phone as much.
The screen could be a tiny e ink screen that can only display phone numbers although if you really wanted to you could have a bigger screen to have more options like receiving sms and could use the wheel like the click wheel on old ipods.
I find smart phones usefull i personaly buy a cheap 6 year old one thats perfect even for today and then i get a cheap phone plan mine is about 2 a month for emergancys.
I don t know about android but in ios you can enable grayscale in accessbility settings and switch between that and normal by tripple clicking the home button.
I still have the iphone right now without a sim but my plan is was to make the light phone my primary phone.
That keeps you from most photo and video based distractions as well as games.
A normal android phone but it only has e ink would be a better compromise.
Going from one end to the other end would put the phone in and out of silent mode.
Still the phone had sparked enough enthusiasm from the minimalist community that the team began exploring a follow up device.
In january 2018 they posted a promo video for the light phone 2 a.