Your phone should work for you.
Not the other way around.
Semo Phone is a fully capable smartphone with an e-ink display and a software layer built around your attention — not against it.
Launching 2027 · 30-day return window · 2-year warranty
The problem — and what we built instead
4.5 hours.
The average daily screen time on a smartphone. Most of it unintentional — pulled in by systems built to hold your attention, not serve it.
Designed against you.
Every scroll, every notification, every infinite feed — engineered to keep you on screen longer. The phone isn't failing. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do.
There's another way.
Semo Phone gives you full connectivity with none of the mechanisms built to trap your attention.
Semo Phone — E-ink smartphone
Everything you need. Nothing to distract.
- E-ink Carta 1200 display — no backlight, no blue light, readable in full sunlight. 300 PPI monochrome.
- SemoOS — software that actually serves you
- Full functionality — calls, messages, navigation, apps
- Multiple days of battery life — e-ink uses power only when the screen changes
Who it's for
The focused professional
Your phone interrupts your thinking 80+ times a day. Semo Phone doesn't.
The conscious parent
A first phone your child can actually use. Without the dopamine design.
The digital minimalist
The experience of paper on your smartphone. Without limitations.
“A smartphone doesn't have to be smart in the way that costs you your mind.”
— Semo Phone