Has anyone ever used a Brax device? What was your experience? (braxtech.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. Seems it was too good to be true.

The phone looks interesting abut the other devices almost look too good to be true, like potential vaporware.

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[-] BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have one. It kinda blows. Just get a used pixel 8 or 9 and install grapheneOS. That's what I ended up doing.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

my antipathy towards google was making me avoid pixels, but knowing that motorola's graphene friendly phone is going to be a $1k+ high end folding phones and making me reconsider.

[-] undrwater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You might go the route of dumb phone with tethering, which opens up your computing flexibility slightly.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

dumb phones are running android these days.

[-] undrwater@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That wouldn't be dumb, but I get your point.

https://dumbwireless.com/collections/phones

How many of these do you suppose run Android. The operating system is listed in the specs. Do you suppose they are not correct?

[-] YexingTudou@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Dumbphone 2 listed is a TCL Flip 2 which runs modified AOSP. Functionally, the Flip 2 is a dumbphone, though if you're willing to put in the elbow grease you can install apps through adb and install a cursor to use them. The screen resolution and modified OS make many apps unusable though, but I was able to get Firefox, Jerboa, and Molly (Signal) working on mine. It was definitely better to tether to a tablet or laptop as you said.

I think the Sunbeam phones, Keyphone, and Light phone are AOSP as well, with varying openness.

A lot of manufacturers just use gutted AOSP so they don't have to write network, UI, notification, etc. stacks from scratch. If not Android it's usually Mocor or KaiOS