06-17-2021, 07:39 AM
(06-17-2021, 06:24 AM)Mtravel Wrote: Hello everyone
does anyone know if there is basic dumb phone with kill switches available or any prospects of Pinephone manufacturer to develop such a product? Many people are turning to those simple phones as a response of becoming too overwhelmed with the ever more complicated and time consuming smart phones. And Pinephone is quite big in size too.
And what you think about the KaiOS operating system, whether it is secure without any backdoors for agencies to listen your microphone? Some Nokia dumb phones have it. Are they any good privacy wise?
Cheers
basic phone with kill switches, short answer, no. although, i don't know does actual technical basic phone even need kill switches, if it is basic enough. pinephone software with only basic functions might be possible, but i don't think developers are interested that much. what makes previous more complicated is lte-voice. in the future lte-voice is practically mandatory.
i don't know enough about kaios. however kaios has kaiaccount, which seems to be not required. kaios is heading somewhat to centralized direction which worries me. what i know kaios is better than average android in case of privacy but not necessarily good enough.
generally speaking, i'm much more worried about big corporations than bad governments.