The product
Hardware you keep.
Software that gets out of the way.
Hardware
Built to last. Built to stay in your pocket.
Small OLED panel with an always-on clock. Enough to see what matters. Not enough to doom-scroll.
Physical QWERTY, BlackBerry-style. Every navigation step is a deliberate choice. A touchscreen is frictionless by design. That's exactly why infinite scroll works. Remove the touchscreen as the primary input and you break the loop at the hardware level.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 with 5G. Fast enough for what you actually do.
Dual SIM support: one physical nano-SIM slot plus eSIM. Personal and work on one device.
Multi-day battery life, optimised for low screen-on time. Charge it when you remember, not when you must.
Premium materials. Water resistant. This is a tool you carry every day. It should feel like one.
Custom AOSP fork. No Google Services. No telemetry. Full control over your device.
Every app still works, via the Kern Store. Curated apps, custom wrappers, and full Play Store access as an add-on. Banking, rideshare, work tools. Nothing removed.
Software
The OS rewires defaults, not capabilities
Launcher
Text-only home screen. No icons, no widgets, no visual noise. A list of names. You type what you want, or you scroll deliberately.
Notifications
You choose per app at install time. DMs always break through. Likes, follows, and recommendations are batched on your schedule. A count on the home screen. A keypress to check.
App Tiers
Three-tier access system. Tier 1: native, instant. Tier 2: curated apps and controlled wrappers via the Kern Store. Tier 3: full Play Store catalogue via the Kern Store add-on, behind deliberate friction.
What you don't lose
Two of the things people quit Light Phone over. Solved on day one.
- 2FAAegis Authenticator, curated in Kern Store.
- MapsOrganic Maps. Offline. No tracking.
Messaging, rideshare, tickets, banking: the full Play Store is one tab away in Kern Store. The friction is yours to set.
If this is the phone you've been waiting for, join the waitlist.
AI Agent
Natural language in. Intent out.
The agent is the fastest path to the thing you already decided to do. 24 intent types. 12 app wrappers. It only acts when you ask.
resolves contact. dialling.
> tell alan i'll be late
resolves contact. sms sent.
> navigate to the airport
opening maps. turn-by-turn ready.
> set an alarm for 7am
alarm set. no ui opened.
> play something by Gorillaz
playing. no browsing.
> remind me to buy milk at 6pm
reminder created. 18:00.
> what's the weather tomorrow
14°C, overcast. no app opened.
> take a photo
camera launched. viewfinder only.
Privacy
Your phone works for you. Not for an ad network.
No Google Services
No GMS framework. No Play Services telemetry. No background data collection. The phone is silent unless you speak first.
Standard Protocols
CardDAV for contacts. CalDAV for calendar. IMAP for email. Your data syncs with any provider. No vendor lock-in, ever.
No Mandatory Cloud
No account required to use the phone. No forced cloud backup. Local-first storage. Cloud is opt-in, not opt-out.
Manual AI Only
The AI agent activates only when you trigger it. No passive listening. No ambient processing. You press the button, it works, it stops.