Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-04-02 Thread Boudewijn
On 17-3-2015 2:49, Stefan Monnier wrote: But the FR's hardware is too limited for that in my experience (e.g. the screen is too small for a resistive touchscreen), and the software is not reliable enough. I think, with the constraints of the FR case, a resistive touchscreen is the best opt

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Nick wrote: > That said, I do like the idea of having access to strong encryption > for SMS type messages and voice, but the way to do that which is > compatible with what other people use is to use android apps that > communicate over the internet. Which would req

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-17 Thread Nick
Quoth Spacefalcon the Outlaw: > But I just can't help but wonder: > are you using your FR because it's free or because it's a smartphone? I'm using it because it's free, plus I don't like replacing electronics which are still working. For me the FR is just an incredibly inefficient and somewhat

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> are you using your FR because it's free or because it's a smartphone? I don't really use my FR for the following reasons: - I don't use its phone part because it's not Free (I guess by now I could try to use your firmware to fix that part) and because I don't like the idea of being actively

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-16 Thread Spacefalcon the Outlaw
Matthias Apitz wrote: > I do not exactly know what a 'smartphone' is. Harald Welte gave a clear technical definition in one of his presentations: a smartphone is a phone that has two separate processors for the application and baseband functions. It's a clear technical definition independent of

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-16 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Hey, I don't talk on phone. I just don't talk. I chat. I email. That's why I don't need a dumbphone. I need a device with a full operating system so I can compile my preferred applications for it. If I need a gsm then I need it to get an Internet connection. Then I can use ssl/tor for chatting

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, March 16, 2015 a las 07:31:52PM +, Spacefalcon the Outlaw escribió: > g...@unixarea.de wrote: > > > I'm using since 2008 the FR as my one and only cellphone. This is not > > lying, it is just a fact. And I do not know any other person from this > > list who is doing so. > > N

Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-16 Thread Spacefalcon the Outlaw
g...@unixarea.de wrote: > I'm using since 2008 the FR as my one and only cellphone. This is not > lying, it is just a fact. And I do not know any other person from this > list who is doing so. Nick followed: > I am too. The only thing that makes me tempted to switch phones is=20 > redphone or c