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Here you go: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 and https://pine64.org/pinephone.

FAQ about the first one: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....

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I know this is off-topic but wow, following your links I just read this on the Puri.sm site:

> Introducing Librem AweSIM: > Unlimited talk, text, and data for just $99/mo

"just"? Really? Isn't that awefully expensive?!

I have a plan with ulnimited talk, text, and 40GB of data that I use extensively (including for a lot of youtube videos) and I've never hit this limit. I pay €8/mo for that. For people who would need even more data, there are 200GB plan for less than €20/mo.

1. You don't have to buy the AweSIM. You can use any sim-card with this phone, there is no lock.

2. This is not just a cellular service provider:

Librem AweSIM adds an extra layer of privacy to your customer data to protect you from targeted tracking. We register your phone number in our name on your behalf and keep your personal and financial data private and out of the hands of companies who would sell it to others.

From https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/.

Thanks for the explanation.

Is it actually unlimited data though? It doesn't say if they throttle at high usage, that'd be a dealbreaker for me.

The laws of my country already make it illegal for my mobile provider to take my private data and sell it away.

This is US-only anyway. But apart from the data selling, there are also leaks.

American mobile phone subscriptions are all ridiculously expensive compared to Europe, so the baseline is different...

Even then, $99 USD/month is about twice what you'd pay with a regular carrier.

> I pay €8/mo for that.

Because you live in happy Europe, fellow european.

But people in the US have to pay that ridiculous amount of money for on average worse service.

Europe is very well connected.

How well do the Android apps run on it (using Anbox)? I'd need that for running my banking app.

https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-the-librem-5/

Also, see the FAQ.

Do note that many banking apps use google safetynet, which means they won't work on anything that deviates too much from normal android and it won't work on anbox.

This is exactly why one needs to make a stance in public against surveillance economy. The government and banks should not support the duopoly.

I still haven't gotten anbox to work but I also realized every single app that I used besides Snapchat had a website that worked well (including my banking app.) Some banking apps apparently include a TOTP implementation, this is a trivial algorithm and there are many native Linux apps for it.

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