oh boy, i'm soo looking forward to a phone that runs any android version except the google-infested default android.
while also not breaking 1000 compatibilities to specific functionalities. or having gross security vulnerabilities.
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That already exists? Install GrapheneOS on any recent Pixel Phone.
The only thing I'm aware of in years of using it are Apps requiring full Play Integrity, because Google quite deliberate chooses not to allow this for GrapheneOS, despite all requirements being met. I'm not convinced they'll make an exception for a competitor's phone running the same.
This is awesome; first non-google phone supported. It us a bit on the expensive side for me, but a good step in the right direction.
Hopefully they will be able to get Motorola/Qualcomm to have the required security features on a lower end SoC and hence phone.
Over $1000 but no headphone jack?? It's such a basic request for a privacy based phone
It's not a privacy based phone. It's a phone they're hoping to sell to mass market consumers that so happens to be about to run a privacy based OS.
You are not the target audience and will continue to not be unless people like you become the dominant consumer of such a device. The problem is the people who enjoy this community, by and large, own a pixel 3 and won't purchase anything unless it's got every feature they want.
Even more unfortunately is those features only end up on cheap phones because manufacturers correlated them with poor people. Need a headphone jack? Must be too poor to afford Bluetooth headphones. Need an sd card slot? Must be too poor to afford a cloud subscription or bigger phone. Need a removable battery or to repair your device? You obviously can't afford to buy a new phone every 2 years.
The bottom line is you are all too sensible to spend the money and influence design decisions so this is what you get.
how many people really care about their privacy? even if it's 0.1% of population, that immediately gives 700k customers in EU and USA alone.
Not a big market
Even the cheap motos have headphone jacks, but I guess that's to much to ask.
What I really want is a phone that is Android based, that has Satellite comms built in
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