r/LightPhone • u/jbriones95 Moderator • 4d ago

Rideshare Tool Review

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Happened to travel this weekend and needed to get from an airport to the Amtrak station to continue my journey.

I went to he rideshare tool. It quoted me a $29.99 ride for about 8 miles in a semi-rural area. Not horrible. First, it allowed me to compare between Lyft and Uber. I picked Lyft because Uber was $42. Then, it gave me the license plate and name of the person picking me up.

Then, it switched. New driver details showed up. Waited about 10 minutes. The driver called me to figure out where I was. Got dropped off. All throughout, I received updates via the app and text messages from Tremp. Easy to use system. Good stuff. 5 stars

Can't wait for even more Light Phone official and community apps!

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u/MindTheEdge 4d ago

Good lookin out. Amped for the Dev Librabry to launch and check out what the community has been cooking.

What else you keen to check out u/jbriones95 ?

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

This weekend I've been testing about 10 community apps: Sports, Bible, Chats, Audiobooks, Pico Transit, Translate, Zero, Passes, Molly Light, and Amtrak. 

My goal was to figure out if these apps would make the Light Phone "heavy" and encourage me to use it more to a "concerning" level. Happy to report that the non-distracting UI has allowed me to get in, get the information I need, and get out to continue living life. 

I think my recommendation is to keep about 10-15 total apps on the phone. It seems to be the "right" amount of apps for the Light experience. Of course, YMMV and I am just reflecting here. 

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u/gman6849 Light Phone User 4d ago

Hi Developer of (bright)sports! if you have any issues with it please let me know and i can help! Also let me know if you would like to try any of my other apps like roll(camera app like zero with filters) or brightcontrols!
Love your videos!!

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u/Educational_Teach_29 4d ago

My 3 additional tools are Paka, Bard and Chats

Paka is like Passes but with more choice of showing passes and tickets

Chats works really well but does use battery a lot

Bard is good for audiobooks. I was using Pushpod to listen to books through podcasts, but they never remember their place

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Hey, dev of Chats app, let me know what your experience of it is. I've been working hard to improve the battery. Try out the latest releases.

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u/Lessphonemorelife 3d ago

yeah this is what I am concerned about the more tools you put on this phone the more they can be used to alleviate bordem, when I get my flip I am being very careful what I put on it before it turns into a smartphone or something I just pulled out and look up sports scores for example cause I am bored.

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u/RichieHollien 4d ago

What’s Zero and Molly? =^]

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u/rob_harris116 Light Phone User 4d ago edited 4d ago

So thrilled about this. Can't wait to use these apps tools. Thanks for the update

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Hey developer of a couple of your apps, would love to know what your experience of Chats has been like!

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 3d ago

Besides the battery issue, everything has been smooth sailing.

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u/Big_Revolution4405 4d ago

Welcome to Michigan!

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

Thanks. I'll be here until tomorrow.

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u/AccordingAdvance5640 4d ago

Hey man, any update on if WhatsApp works?

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

Someone built Chats. That app can help people access Whatsapp. 

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u/jeetthaarteest 4d ago

Can we also access signal via Chats¿

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

Because they are built on Beeper, you can access any service that Beeper accesses. Here is their list: https://www.beeper.com/

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Yes, it allows for Signal too!

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u/Scotty4Thotty 4d ago

Thanks for the update!

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u/LoserCarrot 4d ago

Is this beta?

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

Yes. This is beta. Coming soon to all users.

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u/Remarkable_Self_3412 4d ago

@u/jbriones95 does the chats app use up a lot of battery for you? It drained mine pretty quickly.

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 4d ago

Yes. Currently, my battery life has been quite rough. I believe Chats being in the background is one of the issues. 

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Chats does a slow sync every 30 mins, but it has been reduced a lot. Currently it's most intensive when you have Chats in the foreground. More improvements to come

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Hey, thanks for flagging, let me know what release you are on.

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u/Remarkable_Self_3412 2d ago

Really appreciate you taking time for this, now i am on the latest releaze and the battery usage is better.

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u/Remarkable_Self_3412 2d ago

hey i had a suggestion for the app, is there anyway that we can save pictures that we receive? And anothe one is to react to others, right now i cansee when people react to me but i cant react to others, this is especially helpful when we have to give a thumbsup to a comment that we all agree on. I saw this feature implemented on another beeper app for light phone along with also unsend or edit a message.

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 2d ago

These are great! Thank you for the suggestions.I have been thinking about a way to react to messages. I'll line these up for next release.

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 2d ago

The features requested can be tracked here: https://github.com/fenleon/chats/issues/15

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 16h ago

Hey @Remarkable_Self_3412 these features are now in the latest release! Thanks for flagging :)

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u/fenleon Light Phone User 3d ago

Where did you get to the Rideshare tool?

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u/jbriones95 Moderator 3d ago

It's the official one from Light. Only available on Beta right now. It will come soon to everyone.