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Ask HN: What usable mobile phone do you recommend for privacy conscious users?
I looked into pine64 and purism, they both look impractical for day to day use. I have bad luck in the past picking android phones and finding out the custom ROM route was difficult or impractical. I wanted to know if anyone on HN had any success stories with recent phones.
- pacamara619 6y agoThe PinePhone or a Fairphone with LineageOS. Have a look at the Librem tho, just for shits and giggles if nothing else.
- ffpip 6y agoBuy a pixel and flash graphene OS. Tons of guides on YT
- giantg2 6y agoI like this idea. I might use it for my next upgrade. Probably soon since one of my buttons is loose and there's a discolored spot on the screen.
- valuearb 6y agoiPhone SE2, fastest mobile phone CPU in Universe, has all of Apples privacy protection features, and only $399.
- speedgoose 6y agoThe fingerprint of an iPhone is very common. If you use a rare privacy friendly Android operating system on a rare device, your device may have a very unique fingerprint. So if you don't install many apps, I believe an iPhone is the best solution. You will still be tracked of course.
- abc-xyz 6y agoI’ve had success with an iPod. It’s very cheap, the size is perfect, and it’s just as fast as the latest iPhones. It does everything a normal iPhone does (and I’ve never encountered an app that didn’t work), except you have no SIM so you can’t make regular calls, send/receive SMS, or use data. This can of course be a problem at times, so I still have a cheap backup phone that’s usually powered off, and often left at home unless I’m meeting someone or need to use Google/Apple maps. From a privacy perspective you also benefit from its lack of SIM card since it doesn’t ping cell towers.
- runjake 6y agoAn un-jailbroken iPhone with the latest software.