I’ve been lingering on OTFC #debian-it IRC channel and the almighty Elena of Valhalla made me discover the importance of maintain control over our communications that nowasdays are oftn channeled into various chat, social network and the like. So I’ve read her article «Modern XMPP Server» and Enrico Zini’s «Modern and secure instant messaging» discovering…
Category: Smartphones
Link
Quite obviously when you ask Google to search for “ethical smartphone” it answer with a glowing FairPhone as first answer.
Among the answer pages shown there’s http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/buyersguides/phonebroadband/mobilephones.aspx that tells us that the only other reasonable choice is LG phones.
That’s mostly surprising to me…
Other products don’t look minimally viable from ethical point of view.
I wonder how many people will accept to pay a 2x price premium.
Android, Smartphones
Stonex One real identity
I’m an happy owner of an aging Stonex Ultra. I live near Stonex, less than 5km and I’m pretty biased toward them. So it hurts to discover that their latest phone Stonex One is actually an AMOI, rebranded phone (article in italian). I knew they were china-phones, I just thought they sold it with support.…
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
Stonex One
7 maggio 2017, aggiornamento: la cosa dovrebbe essere oramai nota ai più, ma codesta azienda ha mostrato di essere – e cerco di essere educato e non querelabile – molto fumo e poco arrosto. Questo secondo la mia modesta opionione. Ma pare essere condivisa da molti altri Non è mia abitudine sponsorizzare telefoni ma per…
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
RedPhone
I can’t believe I still haven’t install RedPhone from Open Whisper Systems : free-as-in-freedom, licensed under GPLv3
Javascript, Smartphones
The amazing JavaScript
Javascript, HTML5 and the browser in all its incarnations are quickly becoming the new amazing way of developing applications for the “plain and simple end-user”. On the MacBook Pro Javascript was 44% slower than C (Java only 1.5%). The Javascript Nitro VM on my iPhone 4S was 99% slower than C. On the Nexus 7…
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
I don’t care about cookies
Today I was digging into Firefox extensions for my Android phone discovering this nice “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/?src=category
Android, Smartphones
A little too much
In a middle of typical morning I saw the battery of my smartphone quite lower than what I expected so I looked at power usage : Hey, wait a moment, I haven’t used Google Play Music! It must have been working under the wood: Dear Google, I understand that you strive to provide refined, responsive,…
Smartphones
YotaPhone con a bordo Sailfish OS in un prossimo futuro? · Jolla Community Italia
Per chi non lo conoscesse, YotaPhone è uno smartphone Android prodotto dall’omonima società con a bordo un secondo schermo sul retro che permette, grazie alla tecnologia eInk, di leggere ebook ed utilizzare alcune funzioni del sistema operativo con un impatto quasi nullo sulla batteria. Sorgente: YotaPhone con a bordo Sailfish OS in un prossimo futuro?…