Oh man, this is great news! I’m waiting for a couple more to make it, and I’m off the megatrain!

FLX1 has an audio jack, SD card, and removable battery?? If they continue to develop this (if it doesn’t die by the wayside, as the others have), and Signal continues to work on it, I’m in! From this cursory look, it seems to be exactly what I was looking for.

Edit: holy crap. It’s bigger than the Pixel 7 Pro.

Ah, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, sorry, I did try to read it all, but it was very, very long, and English isn’t my mother tongue.

Ah ok. Makes sense, I suppose. But what about the Chinese brand phones with the larger batteries? Are they, then, illegal to fly with in the USA?

What’s the reasoning behind this? Less risk of explosion?

That was my approach until about 3 weeks ago. I hope something good happens soon.

Same here. Except I didn’t get a tablet. Just waiting for a CyanogenMod-style group to get this going. I wish I had the knowhow.

If I can’t change it once it gets breached (because it will get breached), then it’s not security, it’s a hurdle at best. Biometrics entry isn’t security; it’s convenience.

I’ve always had it…

When I contracted in the USA, they provided a Verizon phone. There was a system app called something like App Manager, which was a Verizon app, installed as a system app, that bloated your phone with crap like Peel Remote, NFL, Amazon, and other nonsense, all mostly also installed as system apps. Once I disabled this App Manager, this bloat shite stopped. Try looking for something installed as a system app that didn’t come directly from Google.

I’m hoping for a really good translation layer. Like WINE, but for APKs.

your android phone…

Nope. Not mine.

That is strange. I have a 7 Pro, and have had this for a long while (before I started seeing people post about it on Lemmy). But I also have CalyxOS, which I’m sure plays a role. I have a buddy with a 7. I’ll check their phone later today and report back. Though they usually complain about updates rebooting their phone, and they haven’t mentioned anything since they got this phone… a bit concerning lol

Edit: so, they have it on their phone. They don’t use it, but they have it. I’m not sure why your 7 doesn’t.

It’s manufacturer specific. What brand is your phone?

Same issue with me, and for the same reason. I set the preferred network type to LTE.

and (I’d like to add) the ability to change said battery when it, inevitably dies, and the I also want a minimum of 6 years of security update.

Permalocked bootloader is a hard pass for me. If I buy a device, that device is mine. If I want to install something on it, I will. If they prevent me from doing that, I will simply not buy the device.

Cool concept. Very, very poorly implemented.

Holy crap that’s awesome

I haven’t figured out how to fix it, yet. But I really don’t want to do a full reset for that. I hope it gets addressed in the next patch.

Oh good. I was hoping it was a “moving on” reason, as opposed to a catastrophic one. Thanks for settling my nerves lol

I didn’t see a reason. Did Tavi give one and I missed it?

Same issue here, since 15 upgrade. 7 Pro.

Oh, it does lol. If it’s images on the screen and audio through the output, OBS can record it. It’s awesome!

Sorry. Open broadcaster software. While not really intended for this use case, it works great for it.

30 days is set by your company. Ours is set to 90 days. Stupid, on my opinion. If I recorded it, I obviously want to keep it. For this reason, I user OBS on my computer and record meetings through that. Bypass teams’s recording framework altogether.

Cool website!

So, the very thing the block claims to block, is completely allowed lol genius

This type of dumbass design is the reason we have passwords like password12345.

The same reason why I almost didn’t buy it. But I changed my mind after missing a very important sms, because I was at work and couldn’t take the phone out of my pocket.

To each their own, for sure, and notifications on the wrist isn’t for everyone.

I use a Pine64 watch, and set it as a notification center. It shows me notifications as they come in, so I don’t have to take my phone out of my pocket while at work. It allows me to see if the notification is urgent or if it can wait until break. When I’m not at work, I put on an analog watch. I don’t use tablets, except for an ereader.

Edit: added link.

CalyxOS, if your posture isn’t strick enough to require GrapheneOS (more strict than the Average Joe, but not as strict as Snowden).

I don’t understand the X chip being visible. Is it just esthetics?

What does the red button-looking circle do?

Moto was semi modular. We all know how that ended. If hmd can get it right, where modules are supported throughout the phone lines (within reason, of course), then great. But I suspect capitalism will get in the way.

I’ve been on calyxos and grapheneos since at least 11, and didn’t realize they were gone from the google variant of android, since I’ve had them this entire time. I wonder, now, if it’s an AOSP thing or a calyxos/grapheneos thing.

“…filled with framed lawsuits and litigations against their fans.”

They can go suck on a tailpipe and die in the sewer.

Impressive, I gotta say

Seems like an easy workaround is to not use your phone as a payment method. Or am I misunderstanding the ars article (which, I must say, is very low quality in comparison to their usual ones)?

I nixed the Play store and its related gpservices. Google doesn’t own my phone, and they can stay the hell away from from my sideloaded manually installed apps.

Depends on your security and privacy postures.

From least private to most: stock, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS.

Security from updates on all three should be mostly comparable, as long as they keep receiving security updates, and you install them. However, CalyxOS has custom code, and tends to be slower to implement the updates.

I skimmed this comparison, and it seems pretty on point.

Some features are proprietary and, therefore, only available on stock. Personally, I went CalyxOS. I don’t miss any of the stock features, but built-in ai is useless for me. My security and privacy postures are evolving, and I may go GrapheneOS next phone. Not sure yet.

Think of the shareholders!