Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 15:05 UTC (Tue) by spacefrogg (subscriber, #119608)
In reply to: Good development by torstenaf
Parent article: Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

There is at least one German company that sells Google phones with GOS pre-installed, incl. optional extras like removing the internal microphones.

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Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 16:49 UTC (Tue) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (3 responses)

Without a microphone surely they're incapable of being described as telephones?

Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 17:30 UTC (Tue) by crsc (subscriber, #138772) [Link] (1 responses)

If you want to make a phone call, you will need a Bluetooth headset. This is a compromise for maximum security. No sensors, no microphone, and no camera, for example. I would like to see physical switches that can deactivate the microphones, cameras, and sensors. But I think that would be difficult to implement. Smartphones now have a lot of microphones built into the circuit board.

Good development

Posted Mar 4, 2026 15:05 UTC (Wed) by mnohime (subscriber, #174134) [Link]

The HIROH phone will have some HW kill switches; see https://hiroh.io/.

Good development

Posted Mar 4, 2026 9:59 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

To many of us the phone functionality is very far down the list of priorities for our mobile computing devices.