Technology21 Jul 2026SEO 881 min read

Analysis: Light made a flip phone. It’s colorful and it’s cheap.

Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternati…

Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternative Light Phone , he’s as surprised as anyone that his customers are begging for a flip phone . “We’ve been interviewing young people that use flip phones for a few years,” Tang told TechCrunch, describing a pattern his team kept running into: Gen Z users love their flip phones but say the build quality is bad. R…

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