The Light Phone's GPS was awful a year ago. It often thought I was on a surface street instead of the adjacent freeway, or vice versa, so it would incorrectly tell me to keep going or take an exit that didn't exist and not register my actual location until a few minutes later - if it registered that at all.
But I decided to make it work, and the Light Phone 2 is still my primary phone a year later. To be fair to the Light Phone, the situation wasn't entirely its fault. Yes, the GPS was awful, and it did get me lost, but driving around Los Angeles makes me nervous on the best of days.
This 2020s-era mashup of a phone - with its chunky plastic body, E Ink touchscreen, and deliberate absence of apps - isn't for everyone. Reviewers and tech enthusiasts alike have come away from using the Light Phone 2 with little more than a shrug.
Even The Verge wrote, 'We might s
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