AT&T cutting off my LG flip phone in 30 days

[Zebulon Walton]

Looking more at the phone that AT&T sent, it's an AT&T "Cingular Flip IV" model U102AA. Downloading the manual and specifications I'm somewhat surprised to find that it is not running a version Android, it is running KaiOS, which is an open-source fork of a previous fork of Firefox OS. It does have Google Assistant installed but that's an application that you don't need to use, so it may be that Google is not deeply embedded into this thing. (Though I note that Google as well as Facebook have partnered with KaiOS Technologies.) According to the Wikipedia entry on the OS it is possible to jailbreak KaiOS, though it remains to be seen if that's possible on this particular phone.

So while there is still reason to be suspicious of this device it may not be as bad as I thought and could be seen as an acceptable temporary backup phone if something happened to my Pinephone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS