[Bradford] I lost me Phone!

[Dick Thomas]

1st-ly sorry if I've done this mailing list thing wrong. 

top/bottom posting, I always get confused.





I have plenty of tin foil, I'm fully stocked.

so I'm a non android  or IOS guy.

In regard to the pinephone, I didn't buy one as ££ and i had bigger plans for my birthday money 



but I did buy a ubports compatible phone https://ubports.com/devices/promoted-devices

and I've been using that for 3 weeks now to my wifes horror at the lack of whatsapp.



At first, it was hellish but once I got used to the lack of "apps" and that could easily make a "webapp"

https://open-store.io/ is the app store

if  you have any questions about it the forums are very friendly for ubports.com or I can try answer then



at some point ubports will have an android emulation type affair from what I can gather.

I've not tried it as the phone picked doesn't support it... yet 



if you want Googleish there is https://e.foundation/

they were my "gateway OS" to fuller FOSS phone.

and worth checking out.



regards



Dick Thomas









---- On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:20:19 +0100 Nick Rhodes via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> 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
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> "Moanin" is a track wrtitten by Charles Mingus, first public recording 
> was on his album "Blues and Roots", 1959.
>

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