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Григорий Клюшников

There isn't any. It's still an obscenely expensive slab of glass and aluminum that's remotely controlled by Apple even after you've paid for it. Modern phones, all of them, are such a disappointment. I want to be excited about technology again.

14 Sep 2021 at 18:33 | Wall-to-wall
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Eugen Rochko

@grishka Well, the 12 is pretty good. Not sure about the remote controlling part.

14 Sep 2021 at 18:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Григорий Клюшников

Eugen, not being able to install apps without any Apple involvement whatsoever is an absolute dealbreaker for me, as is the hard dependency on Apple servers (you can't get past the initial setup without an internet connection and an Apple server giving an okay). Having the ability to unlock the bootloader is nice, but not critical — didn't do that on my last 3 Android phones, but it gives me more peace of mind somehow.

And regarding hardware itself, there's my pet peeve about the lack of a headphone jack.

Eugen, not being able to install apps without any Apple involvement whatsoever is an absolute dealbreaker for me, as is the hard dependency on Apple servers (you can't get past the initial setup without an internet connection and an Apple server giving an okay). Having the ability to unlock the bootloader is nice, but not critical — didn't do that on my last 3 Android phones, but it gives me more peace of mind somehow.

14 Sep 2021 at 18:43
Pirate Praveen

@grishka
Purism Librem 5 could be a change. I have ordered one but yet to get my hands on it (with a friend now). It runs regular GNU/Linux adapted for small screen, no locked boot loader, hardware kill switches and more.
@Gargron

14 Sep 2021 at 18:52 | Open on social.masto.host
Григорий Клюшников

Pirate Praveen, yeah but they decided to reinvent the userspace for some reason instead of just sticking with AOSP... Besides, that thing is thicc. I guess someone could port AOSP to it tho? Shouldn't be that hard since Android is Linux-based. Why Android? Because a phone without an app ecosystem isn't very useful in the modern society, and we should be grateful that one of the two Big App Platforms™ is completely open source.

14 Sep 2021 at 18:58
Pirate Praveen

@grishka
There are already some android phones which comes unlocked like iode.tech/en/ or fairphone. Android is still tightly controlled by Google which I don't consider a good thing. So looking forward to Librem 5 and Pine phone gaining more users.
@Gargron

14 Sep 2021 at 19:17 | Open on social.masto.host
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