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What phone to do you own that doesn’t require proprietary software? What wearable doesn’t require installing an App on your iPhone or android?
I'm currently using a Sony Xperia X running Sailfish OS but I'd like to switch to a Pinephone running Postmarket OS.
Has anybody tried to reverse engineer garmin's bluetooth protocols? I often want to buy one of their smartwatches but the idea of having to install proprietary software on my phone kind of puts me off. I'd love to write my own software but I don't have any experience doing bluetooth RE.
The sync protocol mostly just sends all the files to the Garmin server so there is not a lot of logic locally. I no longer have any interest in the topic but if I were to restart, I'd focus on the "Explore" protocol which seems to allow upload/download of waypoints/tracks which is all that I wanted from the device in the first place.
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What phone to do you own that doesn’t require proprietary software? What wearable doesn’t require installing an App on your iPhone or android?
I'm currently using a Sony Xperia X running Sailfish OS but I'd like to switch to a Pinephone running Postmarket OS.
Edit: Looks like Garmin 'Explore' is still up, so maybe it'd still be OK.
Recently I was looking into Fish finders. Garmin has some cool tech and their maps are great. I’ll have to make sure I don’t get a connected device.
Having your gps time-out on you might be lethal. Imagine an hypothetical auto update bricking all gps devices in the group on a mountain top or the sea and relying on a compass and map if you were smart enought to bring it. Not having a gps makes many endouvers just that much more risky. Edit: made it clear it is a hypothetical scenario
On a side note the graphs of their revenues per year and by category show a company that successfully branched out when their former big category, automotive, which was 80% of their revenue, began to be eaten by in car GPS and then smart phones.
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What phone to do you own that doesn’t require proprietary software? What wearable doesn’t require installing an App on your iPhone or android?
I'm currently using a Sony Xperia X running Sailfish OS but I'd like to switch to a Pinephone running Postmarket OS.
Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can't see my history, surprised they don't cache that locally). Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can't say the same about my friends iWatches/fitbits or eve…
Do they? Last Garmin product I had was a Vivosmart HR: an internet connection and a Garmin connect account was required to change basic settings such as the display orientation. And there was no way to disable syncing.
https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/139004 (I'm not sure if it's reliable) This Taiwanese tech site says because of virus, IT system and production line are down for two days according to insider. they claim it might be ransomware.