Niche product, niche price, nice intentions, sure. But if they were going to go for a niche market, they really should have leaned into it.
Things like a headphone jack, removable battery, and not-gigantic display aren’t unrealistic beauty standards. They were perfected over a decade ago and still relevant among sub-300 phones from small-time manufacturers.
Also, the modem is the big unauditable black-box component that should have been the subject of the hardware kill switch.
Why won’t they just start selling it on local e-shops like MediaMarkt in DACH or Alza in the Slovak and Czech republic?
It’d attract them more customers that (if they’ll like the phone) they can sell future phones/products to.
If they want to have reach, they have to be aggressive both with pricing and with availability. I don’t care if it is available at a carrier (they are prohibited to carrier lock devices in the EU anyway) or on Amazon, it has to be everywhere to let the public know that they exist.
And then the snowball effect starts to show as more outlets and influencers start to say positive things about the phone.
Simply put, every privacy/Linux phone company sacrifices user’s shopping comfort with greediness.
when they adding phone fry button so i can hit a switch and it explodes
Probably won’t work if it also plans using a custom rom
Will this work in the USA?
What makes you think it won’t? Shipping wise?
Frequencies.
US networks might use different antennas/communication hardware.
