[Bradford] I lost me Phone!

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

You can, of course, buy a Huawei and install lineage; you then get an Android 
phone without Google. How useful that is depends on what non-Google apps you 
can get for it.

John

On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:03:05 BST Moanin via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Dick and Nick,
> 
> Thanks for the replies. I was waiting to see if there'd be any more,
> 'cos my old phone turned up thanks to an honest bus driver, buying me a
> bit of time.
> 
> It seems the only Pinephone shipping at the moment is running an alpha
> release of Manjaro and with just a 1 month warranty, so worth keeping an
> eye on for the future. I do like the sound of the GrapheneOS, though.
> Will it work on a Huawei?
> 
> Isn't Galaxy a Samsung brand? Or is it Google? Or maybe an Android
> release? Anyway, the esolutions offerings all look to be refurbed.
> Guaranteed reliability is a must for me, so it has to be new.
> 
> The conclusion is that I'm still open to suggestions, whilst currently
> leaning towards Hauwei as an incomplete alternative to G.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> "Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording
> was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.
> 
> On 29/09/2020 18:20, Nick Rhodes via Bradford wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Edward Snowden recommends GrapheneOS - https://grapheneos.org , it
> > appears to be well supported by Google Pixel phones, you will need to be
> > able to perform the flashing of a firmware to install GrapheneOS.
> > 
> > For those who possess more tin foil, one should worry about the trust of
> > the hardware and consider a far more FOSS hardware,  I think the
> > Pinephone - https://www.pine64.org/pinephone is the only current
> > example, the hardware seems pretty good, but not being Android based has
> > much more limited in terms of applications available.
> > 
> > Cheers, Nick
> > 
> > On 29/09/2020 17:54, Moanin via Bradford wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >> 
> >> I lost my mobile phone today. As it's almost as old and knackered as
> >> me I don't feel it's such a great loss apart from contacts and a small
> >> number of other details. I've been chuntering on about buying a new
> >> one for some time, so this gives me the impetus even if the old one
> >> turns up again.
> >> 
> >> What I'm looking for now is a recommendation for a replacement. Not a
> >> lot of the Google, even less of the Apple, just a little bit of the
> >> Open Source and a lot of freedom from being spied upon.
> >> 
> >> If there is such a thing as a spy free phone in our "democratic" (sic)
> >> society, an idea of where to buy it would be helpful, too.
> >> 
> >> Huawei look tempting, with their EMUI OS which appears to tick some of
> >> my boxes. Does anybody know much about them? I know John Hudson had an
> >> older model last time the topic came up in conversation but that was a
> >> while ago. Any updates, John?
> >> 
> >> Apart for an eyewatering price for the cheapest lurching skywards from
> >> model to model, is there much practical difference between the Huawei
> >> p40, p40 Pro and P40 Pro+?
> >> 
> >> The Mate Xs is a bit two grand for me.
> >> 
> >> All ideas fitting the above description, including but not restricted
> >> to Huawei, accepted and absorbed without hesitation.
> >> 
> >> TIA,
> >> 
> >> Mike
> >> 
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> >> "Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording
> >> was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.
> 
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