> Incentally FYI in the end I *downgraded* my phone to an older non-smartphone!
Sorry to go OT again but well did a little bit of thinking and after a bit more poking around online I can only say I've decided to wait and/or find out more info. So far my options are either to go with replicant (though it does not seem to work 100% on any phone right now) or get the Neo 900 (though I can't afford it, I'd have to save for one over about 6 months to a year). I did turn up a couple of other options however. Unfortunatly they are still android :-( . But there is "omnirom" ( https://omnirom.org/ ) which seems to be similar to cyanogenmod (which btw has now turned itself into a company and upset some of its developers). Don't know to what degree omirom can have all the spyware junk disabled as per cyanogenmod. Also there's something called "paranoid android" as well though I don't know much about it right now. Isn't it frustrating that all these phones are like this btw? As someone else correctly pointed out people value convenience over freedom. I just have this nightmare sometimes with the way in which 'phones are going that in 10 years' time there'll just be one big "APP" button on your phone and people will just be pressing and tapping it again and again crying "app!", "App!", "APP!" if their whatever-they're-using dosen't magically appear as they don't know how to do anything else and the phone's so locked down in any case :-( . I think for the time being for me I'm going to stick with a non-smartphone. - _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
