MuditaOS And Mudita Center are now fully Open Source

Seems values like sustainability and privacy are at least a little higher priority outside of the United States. I, too, can get behind that.

Pine is Hongkong tough.

2G isn’t a frequency. This is nuts.

Interesting. That's a restriction on Tesla's infotainment system as well. I wonder how the underlying standards differ. What makes group messaging so much harder to implement?

I agree it's a pretty key feature.

Of course, there are a lot of other problems with SMS. There's a reason other chat apps are so common, and a lot of it is key features like delivery confirmation and message length.

Perhaps Mudita should offer a cloud service that bridges various chat apps to their phone. If they take a privacy-first approach, it could be a really nice service.

Similarly, I would love to streaming music on this thing. Spotify runs on everything, so why not here?

Maybe I don't totally agree with their product vision though. I like the idea of a slimmed down, privacy-respecting phone. I just don't want to give up ALL the benefits of a smart phone. I would welcome a unified chat interface and a simplified Spotify app.

I would probably be willing to pay a subscription for secure backends to give me a streamlined, integrated experience.

That will be because SMS doesn't support group messages and MMS is a different protocol entirely (believe it or not MMS content exchange is done via HTTP, using SMS only for pushing control messages[1]).

So unfortunately group messages are one of those occasions where superficially easy problem becomes a non-trivial feature to add.

[1] > the content is extracted and sent to a temporary storage server with an HTTP front-end. An SMS "control message" containing the URL of the content is then sent to the recipient's handset to trigger the receiver's WAP browser to open and receive the content from the embedded URL. Several other messages are exchanged to indicate the status of the delivery attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#T...

Whenever I need to call a new number (and I do it often - because companies, state etc.) I manually add the country code to it. Because they often don't add it themselves when putting it on their website or in a message. If I use it as it is and don't add the country code, the moment they call/text me back the phone software considers it a different number because the caller ID actually includes the code.

> Hope these guys would consider doing an ereader though.

Why? Can't a 3rd party just make an app? Given you already have the eInk screen, how is a dedicated ebook reader supposed to be different from an eInk tablet with a reading app?

> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps?

I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false promise that a shiny new product will bring happiness).

It's easy, you just don't treat your phone as secure, do banking on a computer, along with email.

2FA is not magic, it's just another password. Just a password manager like pass [0] can generate 2FA codes, but it's easy enough to do with oathtool [1] that I wrote my own password manager.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org [1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/

Not enough volume to qualify for discounts and less phones to spread out R&D costs.

You can always run the OS on the phone simulator which is included in the repo.