Make your day
extraordinary.
A modern distraction-free phone that keeps you in the driver's seat of your life. Designed to work as a standalone device, or pair with your existing smartphone.
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BENEFITS
Where could a Sidephone take you?
Supercharged productivity
By limiting smartphone use to 2 hours per day, the average person can reclaim more than 700 hours per year.
That's 700 additional hours each year to study, explore new ideas, develop a better body, create memorable adventures, and become the best, most authentic version of yourself.
Look at your screen usage today to calculate your possible time savings.
Heightened intelligence
Sidephone helps improve your innate human abilities. You'll begin to rely more on your mind and your environment, rather than falling back to the tools in your pocket.
Without mindless consumption at your fingertips, you will begin to replace boredom with healthier sources of dopamine like socializing, reading, writing, imagination, inventing, and physical activity.
Features
Modern features in a retro form factor.
LIFESTYLE
Escape the matrix.
Your next conversation starter.
Like a motorcycle, a Sidephone isn't for everyone. It's polarizing. And it's also respected.
Sidephone will help you become the friend that's always present. The good listener. The one that inspires others to live in the moment.
A Sidephone will get you noticed, for the right reasons.
Experience flow faster, and for longer.
Celebrities and executives have had multiple phones for years. The mental shift that happens when putting down one phone and picking up another is powerful.
We're creating Sidephone for inventors, students, executives, artists and entrepreneurs who know that to truly do great work, you need to temporarily tune out the noise, so that you can become the best and most true version of yourself.
Sidephone eliminates any temptations to check messages or non-essential notifications that would otherwise interrupt your work.
If there is an emergency, your Sidephone will ring. Otherwise, you're free to focus.
Truly immerse yourself.
No social media to post to, and no $1000+ device to protect from theft. Just get lost in the music, look around, and make new friends.
Sidephone turns Clubs & Festivals into carefree experiences. In the event of an emergency, your Sidephone can be used to call friends, get home safely, and call for emergency services.
Sidephone comes equipped with a camera, however, to maintain your Sidephone's battery life for emergency use, we recommend carrying a dedicated camera.
Resistance training for your mind.
The smarter the devices we carry become, the less critical thinking our brains need to do. Adults who use their devices more have lower gray matter volume. [Source]
Sidephone makes it easy to time-box your smartphone use, so that you do not over-rely on it for every mental computation, at every part of your day.
By limiting your access to technology, Sidephone encourages you to strengthen your own innate human abilities. Sidephone is a tool to help you develop and maintain a powerful memory, sense of direction and ability to focus.
Add serendipity to every trip.
A Sidephone will take you to places you will not find on social media, or on Google Maps.
You'll be pushed to create your own path, learn the local language, ask locals for recommendations and listen to the radio to hear the pulse of the region.
Sidephone acts as a perfect burner, giving you a 2nd device to take out at night, so that your expensive electronics can remain safely locked away at your accommodation.
Reachable by only your closest circle.
Sidephone shines when connected to a new private number that only your closest friends, family, and trusted services (eg. your bank) know about.
The number would be used for 2FA and emergencies only. This way, if a call or text comes in, you can be confident that it needs your attention.
Any non-urgent communication and group chats are kept to your smartphone and existing phone number, for you to respond to at points throughout the day that you are in control of.
Calls and texts from the private number can be forwarded to your smartphone, so that you never miss a priority call.
Frequently Asked Questions
If we missed yours, feel free to contact us at hello@sidephone.com or post on r/Sidephone
A distraction-free phone designed to protect you from harmful technology. It can be used as a standalone device, or compliment your existing smartphone.
The more we rely on technology to handle every problem that we have, the less critical thinking we need to do, and the smaller our brains become. Stanford has published a study on this.
Using technology mindfully is critical to strengthening your intelligence and innate human abilities. We made Sidephone to make it easier for you to find and maintain a healthy balance with technology.
If you have developed memory loss, a shorter attention span, brain fog, depression, or general apathy towards life, do a 30 day smartphone detox to see if your smartphone is a contributor.
Yes, this is a real product. The phone is being released to the public in 2025. Join our waitlist to learn more about the release, and to qualify for exclusive early supporter discounts and incentives.
If you are an influencer or reviewer and would like to get your hands on a pre-production version of the product, please contact hello@sidephone.com
Sidephone's target retail price is $129 USD, however this may change depending on the production specifications of the phone.
Our earliest supporters will have an opportunity to purchase the phone at a 35% discount. To ensure you have access to early supporter incentives, it is important to join the waitlist at your earliest convenience.
There's a bit of flexibility here, and it depends on how you'll use the phone. If it's your daily, you'll probably want to pick up an unlimited talk/text + data plan. We don't sell plans directly, but we can point you to some good options depending on your country.
We recommend using Sidephone as a 2nd phone. Ideally, your Sidephone should only ring in the event of an emergency or if a 2FA code comes in. This means you can buy a pre-paid or pay-as-you-go SIM, load it with just $25, and keep the line active the entire year.
We want to make a phone that you can travel with. Sidephone is being designed to be compatible with the largest telecom carriers around the world. The phone will come OEM unlocked with Dual SIM capability.
Our phone comes with a 1800mAh replaceable battery. Replacing the battery takes 5 seconds.
The phone can be charged by a USB-C cable. When used as intended, the Sidephone has enough battery to last 8 days between charges.
For comparison, Light Phone II has a 900mAh battery. For more details on the specifications of the device, visit Tech Specs.
We're not looking to sell you things you don't need. A used Android or Apple phone repurposed to be a minimal phone is a fantastic option, and better for the environment too.
But be mindful of whether or not you are actually using the device responsibly, or if you are being sucked into harmful behaviours, or not using it at all. If this is the case, Sidephone may still be a great option to try.
Sidephone encourages you to live a healthier lifestyle. We make going minimal a fun and delightful process. Plus, it just feels special not carrying around a slab of glass. You feel accomplished going through a day with it.
Sidephone feels like a gadget. People will ask you about it. The buttons are inviting to press. The numbers can be held to speed dial people in your life that you care deeply about. You can use the device with any gloves on.
Reserve your spot in queue today.
We're giving our earliest supporters additional perks and benefits, forever <3
It's our way of thanking you for being a part of our story from Day 1.