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/
Price:
How the PRE SALE works for you:
- Pay 99€ today to reserve your device.
- You’ll receive a 299€ coupon. (Prepaid 99€ + 200€ discount) by email.
- Use the coupon in January/February to buy the device for 900€ instead of 1199€, retail price of the device.
Pay for a coupon that might not be honored
haha, no.
Why not call it a deposit? Is it due to the word ‘deposit’ having legal basis?
Considering where Murena is based I’d expect the price to go up a few hundred dollars before release. Probably negating any ‘coupon’ if it’s even honored.
1200€???
ok… i guess privacy is only for the rich
edit: privacy via this phone model is only for the rich. you nitpickers happy now?
To be fair making a phone is likely not a cheap endeavor
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.
/e/os can be installed on devices that can be purchased on the secondhand market for under $100. This is the opposite of “privacy only for the rich”.
us poor have to diy it like everything else. lol
so true
i’m going to do it with a fairphone 2 or 3; depending on whichever i can find unused.
Man, I want to try it so bad, but I don’t have a thousand EUR…
Headphones jack TYPE-C DAC digital headphone
is a funny way of writing “no headphone jack”
Not trying to be a hater, cool project, this just made me laugh
I noticed today that you can also get fairphone 6 with eos
it is sad to see people falling again and again on the same traps.
Murena is not our friend, it is very much business-minded, and /e/os is also lacking in privacy and customer respect (going straight to the worse of AI company with OpenAI, pushing/forcing you into their VPN stuff)
Here we have a 1200€ phone (who buys that? Tesla owners?) with 2022 hardware (Mali g615, really?) and amoled screen we never asked for (maybe Linux tech tips kinda folks want that yeah).
I like privacy indeed, give me linux please, don’t sell me half-decade old hardware for insane price just because “hardware kill switch” (librem guys came back?). Don’t shove amoled in my throat and give me my reliable audio jack. Then we’re talking
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Does it have a high refresh rate display? That’d pretty much the only quality of life feature I really care about.
Only want to talk about a headphone jack. It’s not the most important feature, but it’s essential to showing the mindset of the builder.
Once we’ve talked about that, we can examine ANY other feature.
Isn’t eos horribly insecure though?
No, not horribly, but not as hardened as GrapheneOS for example. Their focus is more on escaping data collection and maintaining a high level of usability, as I understand it. @Fairgreen@lemmy.world
Yes it is, the people telling you otherwise are just unaware of its issues
GrapheneOS has a great post talking about some of this: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private
true,
but this is c/opensource, not c/privacy
