“Freedom Phone” is an overpriced smartphone that doesn’t free you from anything
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Just don't count on it to wake you up, the alarm clock doesn't always wake the phone on Manjaro+Phosh.
She just upgraded to an iPhone 12 so we'll see how much time goes by before she needs one again too. Luckily Apple is making one now, so hopefully it will work better than the third party ones with respect to using the lightning port pass-through, which sometimes fails.
If needing more battery time were the only thing stopping me, I'd be on a PinePhone today.
A terrible product, if this review is accurate. But you have to at least admire their boldness in trying to blatantly manipulate a very opinionated and possibly underserved market.
People paying money for a physical echo chamber could probably as financially beneficial as politically beneficial, since you now have a platform with lots of access to a decently-sized market with known interests and easy keywords that'll trick them into overpaying.
If this is true, it will be a malicious actors paradise.
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The battery is still fantastic at 5150mAh and still in good condition. It runs stock android. It has a headphone jack and a microsd card slot. Its radio runs on most bands 4g bands. It only cost about $200 and has most of the features of a mid-to-high end phone at the time which would have cost ~$500-$700.
In relation to this story about the "Freedom Phone" people are pointing out how the MicroTek CPU is likely "vulnerable." Most CPU privilege escalation exploits are hard to exploit in practice. You're at a much bigger risk letting google run arbitrary code on your phone. Then again, every Intel CPU made from 1996 until 2019 was "vulnerable" so should we also assign them pariah status?
I'm somewhat confused by this emphasis on CPU vulnerabilities. The browsers we run are now ten, twenty million lines of code, and those lines of code are very close to most people's payload. If you want to attack someone, the payload you're looking for is quite likely to be readable for the browser and other apps. It seems much easier to get something into the code of an app the user runs by exploiting some code in maven/npn/rubygems/… than via the CPU.
Android is pretty cool. I wonder if history was different and M$ replaced Google for phones, if we'd have 2 walled prisons.
They took Edge,
now they'll take Android, for their new version of Surface Duo.
Convergence for all.