$350 for a modern Nokia?
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#132$350 for a modern Nokia?
To be fair, it's probably not subsidized by hoarding all of your data.
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#133For that price you might as well get a Palm. It’s tiny and runs android, but I’m keeping one as a minimalist phone for when I don’t want to use my iPhone - https://palm.com/
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#135Why not just get the bottom of the line unlocked Android phone from Walmart for $39?[1] Delete the Google crap, install F_Droid and some basic apps. That's basically what I have, on a Caterpillar Tractor ruggedized phone. No "social" anything. Base email, Fennic browser, ZANavi maps, Mozilla location info provider. Someone could compete with these guys by buying low-end phones in bulk and reconfiguring them that way.…
I just bought the light phone 2 and I'm reconsidering it after your comment.
Can you please elaborate on what/how to do this? I'd love to spend 49 bucks for a basic phone + maps, without crapware.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well they're using Android so... Probably not much. Display isn't that important to battery life (unless you're using it all the time.)
Yup, exactly. I would have liked to use something like KaiOS, but we had a short deadline and that would have meant porting/rewriting a bunch of Qualcomm drivers for the snapdragon on KaiOS. We also couldn’t preempt the new features we’d like to add (directions, find my phone, etc), so full android felt like a safer option all things considered.
Yep, Android was the right choice. You'd still be coding the OS stuff by now I'm sure.
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#138For that price you might as well get a Palm. It’s tiny and runs android, but I’m keeping one as a minimalist phone for when I don’t want to use my iPhone - https://palm.com/
I used the tiny Palm phone for a few months as my primary phone.
The battery life was terrible, even with a battery case, it lasted 2-3 hours.
I'd love a phone like that which had a proper battery life.
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I thought the whole point of this phone was to NOT have those things.
Nobody bought the Light Phone to escape the dopamine drip of Calculator.
My three year old and I actually had a lot of fun with the Calculator app on my phone just a couple hours ago. He thought that me reading off large numbers was hilarious.
So, yeah, Calculator is a pretty important feature.
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#140I would love a dumb phone, except then I lose my ability to make encrypted calls and texts. Can't stand uncle sam being able to read anything I text my wife at any time of the day.