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Shelf life: Are smartphones making us all sick? Lightphone II review
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Shelf life: Are smartphones making us all sick? Lightphone II review

I lived with a fancy dumbphone for a few months, and went smartphone free on-the-go. Here’s what I found

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Jun 26, 2023
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The Lightphone II with my Bedlington Terrier dog Fossil, for scale ;)

Sometime in March I tipped over the edge. I had been teetering on the idea of ditching my smartphone for two years. But on the first spring bank holiday of 2023, I had the particular feeling of wanting to throw my smartphone out of the window and never see it again.

The urgency grew re…

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