The Phone That Respects Your Privacy

jatin songara
Nov 1 · 4 min read

You can imagine the flow of data is the same as the flow of oxygen now a days internet is the basic need ,comfort at the cost of your privacy

Hope you are surfing the web you know you are sharing information over it via your devices like laptops and mobile tablets this is the kind of communication we sort of you liked using the device you paid for it and internet connection paid for it most commonly and frequently you are using your mobile phone which you paid too, broadly people use android or ios and their companies claim about your security and privacy with them is maintained by them but this is the half-truth they continuously monitoring you with your location even if you turned it off the same thing with microphone of your device, they collect your data and process it for Duplex like products and target advertisement here the term data analytics comes in the picture a job that provides some behavior points what you like about your dislikes your behavior where you go via bus or plain what you click even your screenshots of your banking are stored and monitored how much you earn this is important to pay attention to your privacy you are manipulated using your mobile Case like Cambridge Analytica data scandal

You know nothing is free in this world everything comes with its cost

If you are not paying for the product you are the product

How to Get rid of these data traders PureOS is the solution

you can trust on open-source technology which is free and transparent to all and everyone can contribute and everyone can use it for free as we know the android is free and open-source this is true but this is the half one Android is free but it’s Google services are not free you have to pay to the Google for this services as your mobile manufacturers any brand that uses android as pre-installed OS on your mobile devices like your phone and tablet so how to ditch the Android your google’s Android OS

The OS also born in the open-source community like android but it is different google it not there or any companies are there pure open-source and same Linux that you use on your computer system Debian based OS “PureOS”

Still is unstable performance is advanced like the flagship standard most of the tech giants like Microsoft wants to move there os from PC to Mobile phones they failed due to there are fewer developers as compare to Android and ios PureOS stand out with its performance it can run desktop-based apps there is a company, not a company more researchers team in the hardware and software the software part is PureOS the hardware is librem 5 it supports the GNOME and KDE plasma user interface this mobile phone is designed from the scratch Hardware to Software components this is made up under the concern of privacy and security desktop-level

End to End Encryption with Matrix

World’s first IP-native mobile handset

CPU separate from baseband

Hardware kill switch for the camera microphone wifi Bluetooth GPS

You can attach a monitor using USB type 3

PureOS UI and device

Pure OS UI keyboard and web browser
Task Manager & App Drawer
GNOME Help

Specifications (Hardware)

Display : 5.7″ IPS TFT screen @ 720×1440
Processor: i.MX8M (Quad-Core) max. 1.5GHz
Memory: 3GB
Storage : 32 GB eMMC internal storage
Wireless : 802.11abgn 2.4 GHz / 5Ghz + Bluetooth 4
Baseband: Option 1: Gemalto PLS8; Option 2: Broadmobi BM818; w/ single nano-sim: tray on a replaceable M.2 card
GPS: Teseo LIV3F GNSS
Smartcard: Reader with 2FF card slot (SIM card size)
Sound: 1 earpiece speaker, 3.5mm headphone jack
External Storage: microSD storage expansion
Accelerometer: 9-axis IMU (gyro, accel, magnetometer)
Front Camera: 8 MPixel
Back Camera: 13 MPixel w/ LED flash
Vibration motor: included
USB Type C: USB 3.0 data, Charging (Dual-Role Port), Video out
Battery: User-replaceable — 3,500 mAh

jatin songara

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Technology Geek pursuing Masters of Computer Application

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