Trust Wallet any one? Toshi?
Hopefully all those bucks can be used to propel development of other things, like with Nim and a real sharding ecosystem.
This is a solved problem and I never understand why people keep going back to it. Host a node or use a public node. Use a local wallet to do signing and depend on the public node for RPC calls. The vast majority of users and clients do not need to be dealing with Ethereum nodes on their own devices, they just need good key management systems.
Also, public nodes can be DOSed or otherwise taken down. They can invisibly filter the requests they receive. Some jurisdictions could have the nodes completely blocked.
The point here is to build a fully p2p system, so running an on-device node is an attempt to do that. That doesn't mean that public nodes can't also still exist.
This seems to have predictable limitations, and the last people I talked to a month ago said it killed their batteries. Surpriseeeeeeeee or not really?
So you think Apple and Google don't count as a "third party"? What will happen when they kick them off the app store? How else will they communicate through push notification WITHOUT going through FCM or APNS?
The whole premise is completely flawed and naive if they're trying to build a truly "decentralized browser". The only way to make something truly decentralized on mobile is if you have the capacity to build your own phone and distribute it to wide audience. Otherwise you are relying on "3rd parties" like Apple and Google. In fact YOU are the "3rd party" that can be always cut off from users.