{"id":719,"date":"2025-05-14T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:38","slug":"calming-your-iphone-is-way-better-than-buying-a-light-phone-or-minimal-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/calming-your-iphone-is-way-better-than-buying-a-light-phone-or-minimal-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Calming your iPhone is way better than buying a Light Phone or Minimal Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Calming-your-iPhone-is-way-better-than-buying-a-Light-Phone-or-Minimal-Phone.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a bit of a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/tech-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tech<\/a> fad at present which might perhaps be better described as an <em>anti-tech<\/em> fad, epitomized by products like the Light Phone III and Minimal Phone.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that a less-capable, less-compelling smartphone will let us do the essentials without getting addicted to our device. But while I love the concept and aesthetics, most of those who\u2019ve tried them quickly found they spent hundreds of dollars on something that\u2019s more frustrating than calming \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1001250\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/14\/calming-your-iphone-is-way-better-than-buying-a-light-phone-or-minimal-phone\/#more-1001250\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a bit of a tech fad at present which might perhaps be better described as an anti-tech fad, epitomized by products like the Light <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/calming-your-iphone-is-way-better-than-buying-a-light-phone-or-minimal-phone\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}