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 makes you smarter by forcing you to problem solve more often. You'll begin to rely more on your mind and your environment, rather than falling back to what's in your pocket.
By intentionally making simple actions like Googling a question, and navigating around town more challenging, Sidephone encourages you to build and count on your own intellect and memory.
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.
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.
Take control in the bed room.
Using your phone at night and immediately in the morning is detrimental to your sleep quality and mental health.
Sidephone makes it easier to implement a "No Screens" policy in the bedroom.
Sidephone functions as an alarm clock, will alert you of any emergency broadcasts, and can place 911 calls.
If you think of a new idea as you're drifting to sleep, Sidephone can quickly capture it as a voice note.
And if you've set up Sidephone with a secure 2nd number, the phone will ring if there is a friend or family member in distress.
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.
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.
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.
Resistance training for your mind.
The smarter the devices we carry become, the less critical thinking our brains need to do. This is why adults who engage in excessive screen time 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.
A hard reset.
You can't be your best if you are constantly flooded with cheap dopamine, noise and distractions.
Smartphones, and the applications we use on them, are a contributing factor to shorter attention spans, memory loss, depression, and general apathy towards life.
A 30 day smartphone detox can help you identify the impact that your smartphone has on your personal health.
To perform a detox, use any simple phone exclusively for 30 days, or no phone at all.
Frequently Asked Questions
If we missed yours, feel free to contact us at hello@sidephone.com
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. You do not need to buy a Sidephone for this.
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
This is an ongoing conversation. If Sidephone's waitlist reaches 5000 people by January 1st, 2025 we will likely move straight to production and skip a Kickstarter. This will save us approximately 8%, which we will pass on as savings to you.
Sidephone is $119 USD. Our earliest supporters will have an opportunity to purchase the phone at a discounted price of $89 USD. 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 1400mAh replaceable battery. Replacing the battery takes 15 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.
Aside from cases and replacement batteries, the USB-C connection allows us to add on some exciting attachments. We'll be sharing a sneak peak with people on our mailing list.
At this time we are supporting English only. Do not let this discourage you. This list will grow rapidly as the product continues to develop.
If enabled, only contacts that you have specified will be able to call or text your Sidephone. This means 99.9% of spam or scam calls are blocked by default.
Note: It is possible for someone to spoof a number of your approved contact. This is unlikely. We're always working on our technology, and if there are controls we can implement to prevent this, we'll add them.
You will be able to manage the Sidephone entirely on the device itself. For convenience, we are developing a web application to make managing your Sidephone easier. File transfer can happen via the MicroSD card slot.
Those are good options. We're fighting a war against smartphones and harmful technology, and these companies are doing fantastic work.
As far as differentiators, at only $119, Sidephone is 1/3 of the price for similar functionality. Aside from the price, we personally prefer our form factor and UX too.
Our design is an homage to the early 2000s. You don't need to learn how to use our phone, it will feel like you've already used it before.
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 by intentionally adding friction to actions like Googling a question, using Maps, and filling boredom with mindless entertainment.
Plus, it just feels special not carrying around a slab of glass. You feel accomplished surviving 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.
Sidephone comes with a custom OS that supports features a comparable feature phone might not have, and it comes in a form factor that we've specifically chosen to feel great in every hand. Our buttons are wonderful to press, and long lasting.
Purchasing a Sidephone supports our team, and allows us to bring you other products designed to enrich your life.
If Sidephone is your 2nd phone, Opal & Minimalist Phone can still be configured on your primary smartphone.
But imagine that your iPhone is a Ferrari and retina display, with all of its vibrant colours, is a $10K custom paint job. Buying Opal and Minimalist phone is like paying your uncle $500 to spray paint the entire Ferrari with bedliner, and stick a banana in the tailpipe to encourage you to use it less.
We don't think paying more to make our expensive and capable devices harder to use is the best way to solve this issue. We think time-boxing is. The idea is to have two devices to switch between. This lets you use your smartphone intentionally for specific purposes, and at times you've allowed yourself to have.
For less than the amount of money you'd spend on Opal or Minimalist phone, Sidephone will give you an entirely separate device.
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.