Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
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#2I don't agree. It's simply that some vendors are untrustworthy.
Frankly if the telephone app on my "phone" stopped working I wonder how long it would take me to notice.
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#3Or that just means that we still call the device in our pocket a "phone" for legacy reasons.
If we are okay with having a third party handles our messages, VoIP etc, why not the phone app?
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#4https://www.wileyfox.com/the-brand
>UNRIVALLED PRIVACY AND SECURITY
>Choose precisely the data you wish to share; protect apps with additional PINs; prevent spam with Truecaller Integrated Dialler.
So their idea of privacy is privacy from everyone except the manufacturer (and "trusted" third parties)
>Of course, you can always root the phone and install custom roms. But this process takes some time and the development and compatibility with these roms is less than satisfactory.
Maybe he shouldn't have bought a device with such a small userbase?
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#6It's a real problem. Are there any voice dialing programs for Android phones which do voice recognition locally and don't require Google services? That's the way it used to work until Google broke it so they could monitor all your dialing.
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#7I don't agree. It's simply that some vendors are untrustworthy. Frankly if the telephone app on my "phone" stopped working I wonder how long it would take me to notice.
If the dialer stopped working I'd never notice, but if the phone app broke entirely I'd stop getting calls from telemarketers and loan scams.
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#8I completely disagree with the title. The fact that "telephony" can be an app on the phone is a WONDERFUL thing. It means that the author of this article has a choice, as opposed to NOT having a choice.
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#9I completely disagree with the title. The fact that "telephony" can be an app on the phone is a WONDERFUL thing. It means that the author of this article has a choice, as opposed to NOT having a choice.
So, out of curiosity, at this point what are his choices?
Re: Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
#10https://www.wileyfox.com/the-brand >UNRIVALLED PRIVACY AND SECURITY >Choose precisely the data you wish to share; protect apps with additional PINs; prevent spam with Truecaller Integrated Dialler. So their idea of privacy is privacy from everyone except the manufacturer (and "trusted" third parties) >Of course, you can always root the phone and install custom roms. But this process takes some time and the developmen…
> Maybe he shouldn't have bought a device with such a small userbase?
Yes, I think I did a mistake there. On the other hand, there are small brands which are incredibly open about hardware and software development, such as [1]. I want to stress that the current state of compatibility to smartphone operating systems is really not satisfying.