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This phone made me think a lot about the future of mobile in emerging markets. I was reading a lot of great feedbacks about Mozilla with Firefox OS in Africa and some South American countries, they are very happy about the price/value of devices and the fact that these countries have a very basic (or even no) infrastructure, makes them very interesting for these systems, because you can actually build from scratch, u…
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The only reason why some sites still use http is because of the need to purchase an ssl certificate from one of the cartelized CA providers.
True, and how stupid is that? We consider a self signed certificate to be worse than no encryption.
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Wouldn't using a VPN help if you're that concerned?
VPNs aren't secure end-to-end. You can still have your connection spied upon and/or hijacked in the link between the VPN gateway and the website servers (including by the VPN operators themselves!).
I got burned once with a windows phone Omnia 7 as an early adopter and it was beyond useless (lack of apps/configurability) so I will definitely not rush again on unproven phones despite my interest in Ubuntu. Also the price/specs on this phone is horrible compared to Xiaomi Note 4G (190euro) which I own and can recommend to anyone. I hope Ubuntu phone catches on though. Competition is good.
The specs on that Xiaomi are really nice value. I'd been looking at the 2nd gen Moto E or G for my parents, but the Xiaomi beats it, although at a higher cost. It just amazes me how cheap tech has become. The other day I was looking through the Microsoft Store, saw a $90 ish tablet that had various discounts at times bringing it down to an absolutely ridiculous $60-70 range. I checked out some reviews and they were g…
Also the battery dies on you quickly on idle, and it doesn't charge that easily through usb, you need a really high power charger for the charging indicator to turn on.
Love it. Only one missing feature prevents me from buying it: Ubuntu Phone doesn't seem to have easy, painless, over-the-air syncing of calendars and contacts with third-party applications/services like Google Apps and Microsoft Exchange, for snappy access to that data whether I'm online or offline.
Calendar syncing to google should work (but i haven't checked, and i don't know whether it would meet your other qualifiers).
Being burned by two FirefoxOS phones (mostly burned by not being to upgrade to anything latest and stuck to some version). So I'll be careful this time... But I so much wanted to try it out...
>Being burned by two FirefoxOS phones (mostly burned by not being to upgrade to anything latest and stuck to some version). Which ones? I had the same experience with the ZTE Open C but found great community updates for this and other phones. Open C updates are this way: http://builds.firefoxos.mozfr.org/doc/en/devices/zte-open-c
Why FirefoxOS phones there? Because they don't draw much attention, they are cheap, and reliable for basic phone needs - calling, texting, even some browsing. Also the battery life is pretty good.
They are bit sluggish, but still much faster than other cheap phones.
http://www.bq.com/gb/game-ubuntu "Telegram is the most secure way to..." or http://www.bq.com/flexy_templates/game/assets/en/screen-3.pn... If you market your phone towards nerds, don't bullshit us with crypto marketing.
Would you mind to explain what you are talking about ? I thought telegram are more secure than whats app and etc . I would gladly hear what do you think about these app in general.
MTProto has... issues. It uses IGE (infinite garble extension, a variation on the accumulated block chaining - ABC - mode of operation) as its mode of operation, which isn't exactly widely used or battle proven and is considered broken. Something like GCM wouldn've been a saner choice. Another issue is that it uses SHA1 for message authentication. Now, the issue isn't so much that they're using SHA1, but that they aren't using a MAC for message authentication.
It has other issues, but I have to rush off.
If I'm a business with a valid VAT number outside Spain, I shouldn't pay the VAT, right?
I hate to be that guy, but I believe I need to share this. I was amongst the "lucky" ones who managed to get one of the phones of the first batch they sold (my Serial Number is lower than 1500). After using the phone for 20 minutes, I realized that the OS is _very_ far from being usable. I was able to spot more than 10 bugs that would prevent any regular smartphone user to use Ubuntu Phone as a replacement of a rudim…