My smartphone is dying. It gave a honorable battle. I'll probably save and buy myself a dumb phone for Christmas! My company mostly offers Iphones and Samsungs. I have a lot of points, as i didn't got a new phone in years. But i rather use a break phone than an iphone or a samsung even if it only cost me like 150 euros.
I used them both in the past and they felt like toys instead of pieces of hardware to run daily.
I need an smartphone, not a toy.
I don't want 4 useless cameras.
I don't want huge screen that contradict the point of a smartphone.
i don't want extremely new and expensive hardware that i will never use.
Interestingly, the last phone i had that felt like it had a serious team behind was the Nokia Lumia running windows mobile. By far the best mobile OS ever made.
Smartphones should be robust as a rock and always prioritize longevity over anything else. It is the tool i need if i need to call an ambulance. It can not be make with shiny fragile materials, it can not ask me to log in to use it, it can not install things i didn't told it to install.
And the new Linux phones have this problems too. They try so hard to look modern that they are not bringing any advantage over what is already available.
The "Libre phones" are not so libre if they cost what i earn in a year.
I also have a problem with people saying that Linux phones are secure. I don't know if is ignorance or what, but this people seem to forget that most of the things that escape your control are made in your SIM card, not in your phone system.
You can literally remove your phones software, it can still track you just by having the SIM connected.
Maybe we should be reverse engineering that. But that does look as cool.
@kkarhan I think we fully agree on this one.
And honestly, i think that really known Linux figures talking about how secure Linux phones supposedly are, without even mentioning the SIM card, which is a self autonomous computer attach to it, is problematic. Folks in all kind of places undergoing war or oppression could rely on this tools thinking they are safe when they are not.
@YoSoyFreeman A #SIM and #GSM baseband is to be considered #hostile at all times, and even if people were to tunnel everything via @torproject / #Tor that won't avoid the #tracking and "#LawfulInterception" aspect.
Ideally we'd have stuff like the #PocketCrypto1 & #Cryptofon 2 ready to #DIY, but sadly I've to still work on getting the necessary #Firmware done based upon @OS1337 / #OS1337 3.
Granted, the best thing one can do is to bounce public WiFis with anonymized MAC addresses...
That works okay with Tor Bridges, but won't work in like #NorthKorea where you only have a national intranet and the only options you have to get any #Internet access is through smuggled SIMs at the Chinese and Russian Border...
@kkarhan
Indeed. My daily battle is fighting against the forced use of mobile phones. Europeans are being forced to use a mobile phone for many quite basic tasks like banking. Public #libraries are pushing captive portals that require SMS verification, so people without phones are denied access to a public service.
What I find more alarming is no one gives a shit if people without phones are excluded. We need a #rightToBeAnalog more than anything.
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