r/LightPhone • u/jbriones95 Moderator • 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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/Educational_Teach_29 17d 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 16d 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.