Never, ever put your money into an Indiegogo project. It’s not investing, as you don’t earn any money. It’s not purchasing, as there are no guarantees of products finishing or shipping. You also don’t have any consumer protections or rights, even if the project violates Indiegogo’s terms of service and commits fraud, unless you reside in the same country as the company leading the project.
Don’t ask me how I know; I am still bitter.
Edit: Hardware-wise, this phone is doing a lot right: microSD, headphone jack, sim slots, NFC, and what seems to /maybe/ be a user-replacable battery without needing a new water seal on the back of the case after opening it up. IMO it falls short on RAM (16GB is the new minimum and this phone only has 8) and they used a screen with a freaking notch in it.
Software-wise, they don’t seem to be doing anything new, except for offering a somewhat ready-to-go product that tried to de-google Android. This could be nice for people who don’t want to spend weeks or months learning how to secure their phones themselves.
Also keep in mind that AT&T (and I believe Verizon too) do not approve of any new devices with unlocked bootloaders on their network, and as such, this phone does not support the full range of bands used by these companies. Of the three main cell network providers in the US, only T-mobile allows full access to all their bands with devices that ship with official unlockable bootloaders.
This seems like a normal cheap android phone with a bootloader-unlocked operating system and some pre-installed ad-block and rethinkDNS’ish Apps imstalled?
And no offence, but the advertising video itself is more scamy then the wedding-dress shop around the corner that is always closed and dusty, but still paying a horrendous amount of rent each month…
Yes, it’s just iodéOS, which is LineageOS and microg. You can do this with literally any phone if the bootloader can be unlocked. Even easier if it’s officially supported by lineage.
From the specs it sounds like it’s like a Vivo Y28s. It’s not that exact model but something very similar. Same features, same soc, has microsd and headphone jack.
And they are selling it for USD 300. I found this vivo on middle eastern and indian webshops, and it costs less than USD 200.
So do you think the wedding dress shop is laundering money for a drug cartel?
Also, is rethinkDNS an alternative DNS which protects privacy?
Their shipping estimate sounds like a pipe dream. There is no way this ships in March, or April, or probably even May.
I never trusted that brax guy
Does it run lineage? Any other FOSS, third party OS? No? Hard pass.
It does, in it’s early stage eg. Ubuntu Touch, but I think there isn’t any problem to run other Distros too, at least Android itself is Linux (stock Android is only bad because it’s contamined with Google APIs) and Linage OS is an Android fork. The OS isn’t a problem, but the question is the compatibility of the needed apps, eg, in profesional ambit, medical apps or other official apps, all of these normally only for Android or iOS.
iodéOS, and support for UbuntuTouch
iodéOS is powered by “LineageOS”
So yes, it also has microG. So it’s the same thing again, as /e/.
Nothing new, ordinary Chinese phone as many. Only like that is back side is transparent.
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