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A lot of bla-bla, but missing the two most important questions: - Is it possible to remove/exchange the battery. This is a requirement for a business cell phon
by kephra 13y ago
A lot of bla-bla, but missing the two most important questions:
- Is it possible to remove/exchange the battery. This is a requirement for a business cell phone, as its usual that everybody is removing his battery on every phone, when talking real business. Having more then one battery is also a requirement for some games, e.g. Ingress.
- Is it possible to exchange the Linux kernel. Motorola has the bad habit to publish the kernel source to follow GPL by word, but lock the kernel boot loader and prevent freedom by meaning. In result every Motorola phone has kernel bugs with known exploits, and every Motorola phone is ready for trashcan just after unpacking from security point of view.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoWow, those questions don't sound interesting to me at all. I'm sure they aren't interesting to 99% of the cell phone market.
- gbog 13y agoWhy do you say that? Being able to change the batteries is extremely useful for many people in countries were you check it out before buying a new phone. Having security issues is very important for all the business market, and because of them the device might not be allowed in the business phones fleet.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI live in one of those countries...the battery is not the problem, otherwise they wouldn't sell so many iPhones here. Putting a custom Linux kernel on your phone probably won't convince your IT manager one way or the other to let your phone on the network.
- gbog 13y agoIf I were in charge of security in a company handling sensitive data I would consider enforcing that all connected devices run a stable and open source os with root access and would add a special app checking for odds and phoning home regularly.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThat would be a nice ideal, but that hardly represents the real world.
- kephra 13y agoBut we are not the 99% of the stupid end users. We are the 1%, the HN readers, hackers who want to own a phone, and dont want to be owned by the phone.