I am obviously a little biased, but this is probably the first Linux phone that people can actually use. Someone in our community switched from iPhone to this without much of an issue.
In the end it also boils down to what devices the BankID app providers are willing to support, I have a hard time seeing anything but iOS or Android devices being supported in the near future, Esp as Swedish BankID's now also requires NFC support to read the local police issued ID cards (had to get a new testing-device just due to this requirement).
Note: BankID is the name of personal identity apps that support authentication and signatures in Sweden, Norway and Finland, the authentication is used to access a myriad of both public and private sites like tax office, unemployment, healthcare and gyms. The signatures done via the apps are generally accepted to be of as good legal standing as a signed paper.
On the positive side in Finland you can use SIM Toolkit for legally sanctioned 2FA (mobiilivarmenne). That should be much easier to implement without having Google involved.
I guess it's the opposite to what happened in Sweden where Telia was the only mobile provider that had an identity solution (that had any uptake), but afaik gave up due to the omnipresence of BankID that is a streamlined system supported by all the major banks.
As a private sector application developer, would one integrate with MV, the suomi.fi portal or is it a fragmented system?
Whether the banks have any common backend/provider or you need to deal with all of them sperately I don't know.
Also typing this on the ultra-cheap hardware made for the Indian market nearly a decade ago. Well, admittedly they have already announced to discontinue support and I never dared to carry it as my primary phone.
Now the last weeks I was forced to use Android as my primary phone. Really a suprise what crappy piecemeal Android is compared to SailfishOS made by a tiny company struggling economically forever.
Since these days something like >90% of people is on WhatsApp, it’s beyond quintessential to have a good WhatsApp client.
There is now a law from the EU, I think it is the DMA, which could change things for people living in the EU regarding interoperability. I haven't read anything about practical follow-ups yet.
By the way, only releasing source code as a blueprint might be fine, that happened before. I might remember it wrong, but it might be lame, the mp3 encoder.
Probably not very detectable for Meta since it uses a wrapped webview, but I've been using ZapZap on Linux for a good while now and I haven't seen a ban yet.
Interesting, my naive understanding is that push notifications won't work and battery life should be greatly affected, how do things work for you?
[2]: In 2020, Facebook shutted down the NYU Ad Observatory by shutting down the Facebook accounts of Cybersecurity for Democracy team members Damon McCoy and Laura Edelson.
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I'm actually using GNU/Linux phones since 2008. Never relied on Halium.
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