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Thoughts on the Brax 3 phone? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Supposedly, he sells out of his phones but I haven't seen any review or unboxing videos for the Brax 3. I know that you can ask for iodeOS or Ubuntu touch.

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I heard that he was a scammer or pseudo privacy expert from other comments. I wouldn't recommend that phone. If you care about the privacy or security of your device, use DivestOS with a supported Pixel/OnePlus, or GrapheneOS with a Pixel. Only buy the phone new if you are super paranoid of some zero-day vulnerability being used on you. I recommend swappa.com because they have quality control, returns, and good prices for used devices (you can even get mint quality devices).

Comparison of Android ROMs: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

iodeOS has been behind on security updates often (still better security against unsophisticated attacks than Ubuntu but not a good ROM): https://divestos.org/pages/patch_history

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why Divest over Graphene? Was considering moving from stock to Graphene.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

It removes more proprietary binary blobs and I dont care about gapps.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I learned about Swappa years ago and exclusively use them for buying and selling all my smartphones. I have no idea why they aren't more popular, except for the fact that repair shop resellers use it too, but they are pretty easy to avoid.