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$179 is way too much for a phone that sends all of your login information for different pages and services to Motorola's servers in plaintext...

• ye 13y ago
  What are you talking about?
  • ehPReth 13y ago
    http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin...
  • laureny 13y ago
    Just the regular "NSA/Google is evil/wake up people" troll. Ignore and carry on.
    • ehPReth 13y ago
      Nah, this one is credible: http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listening.html http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin...
      • byjove 13y ago
        This is pre Google acquisition, pre Google models.
      • zobzu 13y ago
        default android phone sends your location to google, as well as your contacts, app list, app usage, calendars, todo list and some other things. You can disable a good part of it manually, thanksfully. Still, he sure has a point.. its not like if that data wasn't sent. It fucking is.
        • kllrnohj 13y ago
          > default android phone sends your location to google, as well as your contacts, app list, app usage, calendars, todo list and some other things. By default it does none of those things. You have to hit "yes" to enable the location reporting which defaults to off but which you are asked to enable the first time you add a Google account. The rest isn't done at all unless you are using the Google services to sync that data. Which is only an option if you've added a Google account.
          • throwaway2048 13y ago
            ever try to use an Android phone without a Google account? know anybody that does?
            • kllrnohj 13y ago
              Sure, it's not that hard. Sideload Amazon Store or F-Droid to get your non-Google app store fix, and the rest is pretty straightforward.
              • glogla 13y ago
                It's pretty nice, and as a bonus the apps from F-Droid don't do stuff like "flashlight app that sends you contacts somewhere". It sucks for some apps, like bank-specific mobile banking apps, that aren't possible to get outside of Play store.
  • wyclif 13y ago
    Forget it, he's rolling.
• nly 13y ago
  It's completely unlockable and reflashable from what I can tell
  • zobzu 13y ago
    just like nexuses. still sends all the info to google by default, that's not something we can deny. in fact, even if you flash it, you'll want google play services, and it then still sends all the info to google again. So unless you can live without gapps (some apps won't even work without it nowadays, due to calls to the proprietary API), you're a little screwed.. well thats unless you wanna port FirefoxOS to it or something.
    • nly 13y ago
      Even if your concerns are justified, they apply to all Android phones not just the Moto G