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.
I expect my mobile network tracking it. That does not mean that folks who are not aware of how certain stuff works expect it too.
Not everyone has the privilege of knowing or having common access to certain tech, so, is part of our responsibility to make sure that people understand their tools.
In my experience, the vast majority of people does not know what "tracking", "file system" or "file paths" are. Especially young people.
Yo Soy Freeman
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