The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along
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#2This feels like a gimmick. Most privacy issues aren't from the camera, bluetooth, and microphone.
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#3Such irony that the site has difficult to opt-out cookie/tracking settings sharing everything possible about you with hundreds of "partners", and flashy, distracting ads between every single paragraph…
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#4I kind of remember and Jolla like 5 years ago, but I think this is supposed to be a hype generating post OK. Try buying one though it is not so easy
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#5This feels like a gimmick. Most privacy issues aren't from the camera, bluetooth, and microphone.
> This feels like a gimmick.
Yeah, marketing, but there are many other reasons, including competition within this space. I was looking at their new C2 community phone and the price (circa 300 EUR) too seems fair to say the least (with 5 years of support). Fairphone seems nice too. But as foobarkey commented above, these things should really be in brick and mortar stores (or in Temu, god forbid...).
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#6This feels like a gimmick. Most privacy issues aren't from the camera, bluetooth, and microphone.
The article agrees:
"It’s real Linux. Like, actual Linux. Not Android with Google quietly running 47 background processes to figure out whether you’re sad enough to buy ice cream. Not iOS with Apple playing gatekeeper over which apps you’re allowed to have. Just clean, honest open source Linux that treats you like a grown up who actually owns their stuff."
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#7This article feels like it's written by AI. And from what it sounds like the switch just enables Airplane Mode.
I used to own (well, technicall I still own) a Jolla Phone when it was released in 2014 and what was way more beneficial towards my privacy as a user, was the fact that it was a full fledged linux phone where I could have potentially installed any piece of software I would have wanted, with full root access in a custom linux terminal with bash. I think I once tried to run a Minecraft Server on it.
I was hoping that they'd port aircrack-ng to it, like it was possible with the Nokia N900, but sadly that never happened.
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#8> This isn’t tin foil hat paranoia. This is just honest engineering.
This sentence and others makes me think this article was written or edited by an AI. Anybody else get that feeling too?
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#9I'm not sure if this article is factually correct in claiming the privacy switch to be a physical disconnect for microphone, camera and bluetooth. IIRC Jolla advertised that the user would be able to configure the exact function of the privacy switch, which would mean that there's some system software involved.
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#10Such irony that the site has difficult to opt-out cookie/tracking settings sharing everything possible about you with hundreds of "partners", and flashy, distracting ads between every single paragraph…
Totally...