Interesting concept, but seems just like a phone with privacy switches and a non-Google OS. How is it on security, hardening? How would it compare to GrapheneOS?
To be fair, GrapheneOS does require a Pixel, but that's because those phones are the best in terms of security, and can be privacy as well.
I run their OS /e/ on my fairphone 4. As someone who just uses a phone for basic stuff its the tits, no bs, no google apps required at all. The built-in tracker blocking etc is great and I like the basic interface.
Biggest bonus is that my phone lasts maybe 50% longer on a single charge. Was super easy to install too.
No paying with NFC though, but I don't mind, I always had my wallet anyway.
On the other side of the foldable spectrum, the OnePlus Open is a welcome addition to the mix with the best screen format on a book-style folding phone. It’s thin and light, and the software includes some thoughtful approaches to multi-tasking — a crucial part of the folding phone experience. At $1,700, it’s just $100 shy of the Pixel Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 5 and misses a couple of key features that both of those other options include: wireless charging and an IPX8 rating.
Does anyone really care about these though? Wireless charging is really niche and worse than wired in every way, and water resistance is one of those things phones love advertising but nobody ever notices.
And yet Google had not yet added RCS support to Google Fi "messages for web" (the service to access voice and sms without connecting to a phone) after several years.
Well I'm not acquainted with Apk tool, but I understand a bit about reverse engineering, so I went on their github page to read about it.
Essentially, an android application is packaged under the .APK extension which lets you install and run the application on your phone.
This is akin to a software with the .exe extension on windows.
An .apk or .exe is a bunch of compiled code and ressources, this means that in this form, the code is mostly a bunch of mumbo jumbo that no one can understand or make edit to.
By reverse engineering, you transform the .apk to it's initial state before compilation, the code is now organised, readable, and editable.
This allows you to understand what is going on under hood and add new code and functionnalities.
If you decide to edit the code, you can package/compile this extended application into a new .APK and enjoy additionnal features in the application.
Note that reverse engineering will not get you an exact copy of the code and file structures the original developper created, it is (in general) an approximation. Depending on the decompiler, you can lose variables names, function names...etc, but the code will work fine.
For an example
If the original developper had this function.
private String getAge(String userId) {
String age = this.users.get(userId);
return age;
}
You get the code, but it's harder to understand than if you had the original code.
So reverse engineering / decompiling is useful in some use cases, but not always a miracle.
If you're considering buying one you might want to take into account that they removed the headphone jack so they can sell their own wireless buds and headphones.
I care less about the lack of a headphone jack and more about the lack of multiple ports
USB C is genuinely a great multiport, but all of these companies leave the phone with one port. People would care less if each phone had two ports, so you could plug in headphones via adapter while also charging
Wearos uses too much resources. Google needs either to dumb it down or wait ten years for a wearable soc with 8gb ram 8 cores, perfect for a smartwatch
Can't believe that hasn't been addressed yet. I had a moto 360 years ago, first version of Android wear and it was obvious they were trying to do too much with it. Sounds like it's still that way. I then used a Garmin watch with nothing visually appealing, but great battery. Very practical. Got out of running and haven't tried anything since then. Hoping to go with a pixel watch 2 with LTE, but wish they would go extreme with reducing the load on it.
I've been keeping an eye out for this as I've seen some previous updates from you, and as my instance went down briefly earlier today I was wondering how far along you've gotten.
To me this is a must have feature for Lemmy/fediverse in general. Decentralised is supposed to not only spread the work load but also guarantee access, however without an up to date profile on another instance it doesn't really work.
Imagine if we had this - physically tiny - and established standard how we could let the user add extra storage space to their small electronic devices.
I don't know, maybe SanDisk could develop something like this, some Micro format storage device. That's not a bad name, is it? Something with Micro, and SanDisk? Yeah, someone should create that!
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