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For me, it is likely already too late. A law has been passed in Russia (effective since April 1) that requires certain apps to be pre-installed on all smartphon
by patrakov 6y ago
For me, it is likely already too late. A law has been passed in Russia (effective since April 1) that requires certain apps to be pre-installed on all smartphones that are sold or imported, and some of them (e.g. for the Wink streaming media service) are simply not available for desktop linux. Therefore, if the phone arrives later, the customs will turn the phone back and apply charges against me for an attempted smuggling. So unless they can ensure that it arrives earlier, I have to ask for a refund.
- seniorivn 6y agothe shit in Russia is crazy but I don't think customs is going to check any of it especially if you are going to use mail proxy so it will come into Russia as a regular parcel with an old phone(it even looks old)
- kube-system 6y agoI'm curious, what's the stated reason for requiring that streaming service?
- patrakov 6y agoPromoting Russian services (Wink, ivi.ru and others) over foreign ones (e.g. Netflix). Removing the uncompetitive advantages that Western services have - because apps for foreign services are typically preinstalled already, and the user had to install apps for Russian services explicitly, and a typical grandma cannot do it.
- swiley 6y agoGet a PinePhone then.
- patrakov 6y agoI already have one (BraveHeart edition).
- linmob 6y agoThat law sounds like a really bad idea, but: In theory Purism should be able to comply. As long as these apps support Android 7, they could ship the Librem 5 with Anbox and these apps preinstalled. BTW, do these apps exist for Sailfish OS (or its russian variant)? If so, they can likely be ported to Kirigami and then run natively on Linux phones.