When your phone options are currently hardware company vs advertising company
Same, it'd be cool to see pine phone or something take off , or like Huawei or Xiaomi come up with their own phone OS
Like pine OS? I love Linux but I don't hate myself enough to try to DIY arch onto my phone hardware, I've already sunk enough hours into getting video and audio working on my desktop
Yeah, I'd like to see a phone come with linux pre-installed by the manufacturer. It's one thing to change over a PC, but I'm certainly not technically skilled enough for a phone
There's plently of open source mods of android that let you sideload as much google apps as you need. LineageOS is the most popular and stable by a long shot.
Works fairly out of the box, except for the whole part of flashing onto the phone in the first place.
Lineage doesnt allow you to lock the bootloader tho. Calyx is the new cool kid iirc
Looks like another fad OS that's "focused on privacy". I can't find a list of what phones they support. It just says, "pixel 3 or newer", which makes me suspect it only supports pixels.
If Huawei keeps making phones in some form, it seems like they would be a good option. Sure, they aren't officially doing business in the US, but it's not too difficult to get one unlocked. HarmonyOS seems promising and will likely be a good option for avoiding US companies/government. They're also a worker owned company, which is neat.
Use Honor brand if you want a Huawei-like experience that still has android and can still be sold in the US
I had an Honor for a while, good brand. Not perfect (nothing can be) but was still more than good enough
Couldn't be Xiao-me :big-cool:
Just kidding, I just wanted to make the pun.
As someone that's used Huawei phones in the past, they're not great. Still plagued with most of the issues modern smartphones have. Shitty updates and support unless you bought the flagship model, EMUI is a pile of nonsense compared to almost everything else, stock android is much better, and even Samsung has a better UI. Locked bootloader because reasons. Unfortunately it's not good
I just don't understand in 2021 why no one seems capable of making a decent smartphone that doesn't crap out after a couple of years.
Probably planned obsolescence.
phones that stay alive for a week
they’d just be as powerful as phones from 2013
they’d remain useful for a decade
TAKE MY FUXKING MONEY
100% would replace my phone with one of these if it was an option. I remember keeping my Droid 4 alive by swapping to fresh batteries for years after they stopped updating it until even the texting app was unusably slow because of how much I loved the keyboard on it.
Wait so just to be clear, taking my phone off the charger at 90% and not letting it hit 20% would improve longevity of the battery?
you can replace your own battery for pretty cheap these days. just buy the repair tool kit and the battery. just did mine for $20.
Nobody is willing to make a phone that sacrifices battery capacity for lifespan (by limiting charge to the 20-90% range)
My Asus Zenfone 3(?) hand this implemented as a settings option.
Also this whole battery problem could be solved by selling new batteries, even those new squishy ones. My friend got a battery for his four year old phone changed at a repair shop but it ended up barely any better than his old battery. It's always the case for some reason...
At the end of the day, it's just a product they want to sell in order to grow and obtain the skills for domestic ARM chip manufacturing. And for that, it's a massive success. And it's not as if the phones are terrible or anything, they're just another smartphone, with all the issues that they have
you can replace your own battery for pretty cheap these days. just buy the repair tool kit and the battery. just did mine for $20.
https://swappa.com/catalog/brand/oneplus
when Chinese people have been making better phones than Americans since 2014
Can't you get them pretty easily through Chinese sites like, Aliexpress, Taobao, etc.?
Yes I think so. But if the price looks too good to be true, it is not a real Huawei. Beware "Alibaba and the 40 thieves", after all.
We're joking around, but seriously: update your iphone. I'm sure some people on this site have one.
Bad for environment.
Only smacking your own ass like a drum is a valid form of communication.
ah yes Gorcenski, who's super proud of her contributions to the US military
i kept screaming "siri update my shit" at my phone but all that happened was i started bleeding from my ass, is this how it's supposed to work? i'm not super tech savvy.
Supposedly it has better privacy or security or whatever, so if I were an anarchist I'd probably use one.
IDK, seems like they figured out how to get into the San Bernardino guy's iPhone because they gave up on forcing Apple to open it.
The only Apple thing I own is a USB C to 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor, for my android phone
It actually works so well. And it's pretty cheap too, for the quality. All other high quality ones are way more expensive. The official Samsung one is also terrible
They should be dirt cheap because it’s a passive cable. USB Type-C controller on the host detects the special alt-mode and the left/right signals are piped right in. It’s essentially a non-round 3.5mm port.
As the other commenter said, definitely look into Linux. Linux can run on aging hardware pretty well. If you're partial to the layout and UI of MacOS check out Elementary OS. I've never used it before but I have heard some good things about it.
IIRC it was a Webkit vulnerability, so you're ok on this if you're using Firefox. But as the other person said, your whole OS is old and that always comes with some risk.
I thought antifa were using non-Google custom Android ROMs or Linux phones.
I really feel like these text message attacks are implemented on purpose holy cow. There have been at least 4 of these attacks on iOS over the years. How hard could it be to make sure there isn't a buffer overflow or something in their text message code?!
well that endorsement from emily droneski definitely makes me suspicious that the new version actually has an nsa backdoor or some shit
