The HIROH phone is apparently launching with /e/OS exclusively or before there is an Android version (which is great :)) ♥️
- 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage expandable up to 2TB, giving you room for everything that matters.
- A 6.67-inch AMOLED display and a camera system pairs a 108MP Samsung sensor with a 32MP Sony front lens for crisp, striking detail in every shot.
- A hardware kill switch; disconnected completely the microphone and cameras at the circuit level, leaving nothing open for intrusion.
- A software-based switch, to easily turn off all your radio signals, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC.
https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/hiroh-phone-powered-by-murena-pre-sale/
1200€???
ok… i guess privacy is only for the rich
The cost of the device is not being subsidized by all of the bloatware installation income, selling of personal info, etc. I think a lot of people don’t realize that inflation really shot through the roof on the last decade and it’s only because products are subsidized by the sale of your data and other unethical practices that product prices didn’t go up. Food uses shrink-flation to hide inflation, tech uses selling your personal info.
Fairphone doesn’t have any bloatware either (besides base google apps), yet their phones aren’t priced 1k+
yeah, no doubt, it’s not being subsidized.
low income privacy supporters don’t want it subsidized either.
at the same time, they are in fact excluded from this model of phone.
in the universe of possibilities, it’s possible to have an affordable phone with privacy intact that serves more communities, at some time in the past or future.
but not from murena, not right now.
tl;dr no duh.
Man, I want to try it so bad, but I don’t have a thousand EUR…
To be fair making a phone is likely not a cheap endeavor
More to the point. Making a cheap phone is not an affordable endeavour.
Linux phone makers such as pine have discovered this in the past. As your first products are going to be low demand. Running a business on the profit margins of lower priced phones becomes hard. It seriously limits your ability to gain investments. Making competition with similar priced products insanely complex.
it’s not.
I’m not blaming Fairphone nor Murena. the economy everywhere is not helping make things cheaper.
it doesn’t change the truth that right now, privacy is for the rich.
They also have the CMF for 359 euro, you don’t have to get the expensive one.
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s/rich/dumb/gThis device is not worth the illusionary pricetag of $1423 (converted). Whoever buys this has more pressing issues than their privacy.