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Should you buy it?
Skip the Light Phone III at Light's $899 preorder price (Oct 7, 2026; new orders are slated to ship around the end of the year), because Light has raised it from $599 at its March 2025 launch and $699 earlier this year. You get a 3.92-inch black-and-white AMOLED, 5G, a hotspot, turn-by-turn directions, a 50MP camera and a battery you can swap with four screws, and both WIRED and Engadget got about two days per charge unless they leaned on navigation or music. Engadget found texting without autocorrect a chore, the music player barebones and the camera one to three seconds slow to fire, and WIRED notes the screwed-on back limits it to IP54. Buy it only as a second phone for calls, texts and directions, since there's no browser, no email and no third-party chat apps like WhatsApp.