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I submit for your approval: https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
by jngreenlee 8y ago
I submit for your approval:
https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/ https://www.punkt.ch/en/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
- kxyvr 8y agoI've not owned, but I'm interested in the Punkt phones and have followed them for several years. That said, the MP01 adapted an operating system from MediaTek, which I'm pretty certain was Nucleus RTOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_RTOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_RTOS Their new phone, the MP02, uses a cut down version of Android managed by Blackberry. Ostensibly, Blackberry has produced some secure devices in the past, but it's still Android, which is a large, complicated code base and the there're dozens of comments around here about the insecurities in the Android ecosystem. Now, given how cut down their version of Android is, is it more secure? Possibly, but I don't think Punkt or Blackberry has committed to releasing their source and, even if they did, it's a somewhat niche market, so it's not clear to me that an appropriate, public audit would occur. I really do like this device and may end up buying one, but I'm not confident that this is the ultimate in secure devices that I'd love to have. As an aside, it seems like all the 4G feature phones use Android or some derivative. Does anyone know why? I can find non-Android 2G feature phones, but 4G seems universally Android and it's not clear to me why a phone that can't run much for apps needs that.