There are also apps for navigation and a hotspot feature, though they have to be enabled through Light's web dashboard, so you won't be able to use these features right out of the box. If you've synced any podcasts or songs to your device (which you can only do through the company's web portal), those will show up, too. When you turn on the Light Phone, which takes a little over a minute to fully boot up, you’re greeted with a barebones interface that lets you navigate between the Phone app, Alarm app, and Settings. Light highlights the phone's straightforward functionality, but gives users the ability to add on features like calendar, voice memos, and reminders in the near future. In my testing, the person on the other end was able to hear me just fine with a single bar of service, but I had trouble hearing them a few times throughout a long call. In practice, call quality is mostly fine, even with a spotty connection. ![]() That also means that the microphone isn't as close to your mouth as it would be with other devices. Because the device is short at just under four inches tall, you can't easily sandwich it between your ear and shoulder like you could a larger smartphone. The phone is small enough to hold in one hand, but that smaller size comes with a major drawback: It's not great for making calls. In rooms without a ton of light, it's easy to see the backlight of the phone bleeding through the top and bottom of the display, and while it isn't terrible, it's not what you'd expect from a $300 device. Unlike the more refined screens on Amazon's readers, though, the Light Phone's display suffers from occasional ghosting (artifacts or tiny pieces from previous pages) and a lot of light bleed. Like Amazon's Kindle e-readers, the Light Phone uses an e-ink display that looks more like ink on paper than dots on a grid of lights. The display, which is just under three inches diagonally, is significantly smaller than the screen you’d find on any modern smartphone, but it also doesn’t have to show nearly as much information. This can feel weird at first, and before getting acquainted I found myself hitting the menu button when I meant to turn the volume down on a call. The volume toggles were a bit weird because rather than the up and down buttons being right next to each other, they're separated by the menu button. On top of the device, there's a power button and a headphone jack (the Light Phone does support music playback, but you can't stream anything), and on the right-hand side there's a volume toggle and a menu button for navigating the device's OS. The Light Phone 2 is slightly taller than a pack of cards and looks like a mix between an iPhone and a Kindle Paperwhite. It is powered by a 1800 mAh battery and the dimensions are 177.2x161x4.3mm and weighs 210g.Equipped with calling, messaging, and an alarm, the Light Phone II is an ultra lightweight smartphone that takes the frills out of mobile phone usage. There is a USB-C port, which is used for data transfer or charging. You will be able to connect up a pair of wireless headphones via Bluetooth 5.1. There is a single speaker on the back that can play back the assistant, but also audiobooks, podcasts and music. It has two microphones for the AI assistant, which will read ebooks aloud. ![]() Underneath the hood is a octa core processor, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. There is a front-lit display with a color temperature system, in total there is 28 white and amber LED lights, so you can read in the dark and get a nice warm light effect. It has the same asymmetrical design as the Kindle Oasis. The color scheme is black around the edges of the bezel and the rest of it is this really nice offset pink, which has some silver tones. There are two physical page turn buttons on the side of the unit, they are positioned to the right of the screen. The screen is flush with the bezel and is protected by a layer of glass. The iReader XS features an 7.8 inch E INK Carta HD capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1920×1440 with 300 PPI. It supports various system languages including English. This is the first time that iReader has ever released a device isn’t exclusively designed for the Chinese market, but they are marketing it worldwide. ![]() It has an 8 inch screen that has 300 PPI and is running Android 8.1, so you can sideload in your own ebooks or Android apps. ![]() The iReader Smart XS was designed to be a Kindle Oasis Killer.
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