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This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy
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Interesting.
Yes , it's got decent hardware, but they should cut the price off in half
While I agree with that, they don't have the luxury of scale of mass production, so it's not possible for them (yet hopefully)
I know prices may be higher but check this: https://www.techwalls.com/production-costs-of-smartphones
If you go to china and go to a factory they will show you the menu where you can choose the components from, you just give them the 3d cad file of the desired form factor. And prices are the one I linked. You have to customize android, I know, and spend on marketing, but that's it
Hmm fair enough, maybe the more special features are the main reason it is so pricey, like the physical modem switches? Just a guess.
Probably yes, but iirc the pine phone has them too and it's 150€
Big companies sell their expensive phones for cheap because they'll get their money selling your data and showing you ads. A phone like this won't get any money out of you other than the money you give when buying the phone. So it makes sense that it's pricey.
"Big companies sell their high end phones for cheap"
What crack rock are you sleeping under? I can buy a street legal used vehicle for less than the "latest and greatest" samsung or Apple phone.
The truth is, if it wasn't for data collection, these phones would be more expensive than this. So yeah, they are cheap compared to their price if companies didn't collect user data.
I know there's other costs associated (like the engineering and advertising) , but I happen to know with the iPhone 13 pro they were making about $400 per device. I doubt those margins have shrunk much, if at all, since then.
Thanks... That one took me back a bit. We are age of 1k+ flagship devices jfc
Like $1400 or $1500 for the top S line phone, and $3,000 for the top Samsung fold. Fuck all of that.
The response time looks really slow in the video. Not sure I've ever seen a loading logo for the settings menu before.