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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by rhn_mk1 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:06PM (#16461465)
An open alternative is the goal of the Librem phone from Purism.
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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by mirimir on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:51PM (#16462960)
Does it use closed-source firmware in the radio baseband? And is there a physical switch between the baseband and main system board?
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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by rhn_mk1 on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:58AM (#16464049)
The campaign page [0] says there will be a kill switch:

> Hardware Kill Switches for Camera, Microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and Baseband

but is somewhat unclear on the baseband firmware:

> The mobile baseband will most likely use ROM loaded firmware, but a free software kernel driver.

[0] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

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Re:KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System by mirimir on Monday February 26, 2018 @02:07PM (#16468020)
Thanks. I somehow didn't see "baseband" in the list of switched stuff. Impressive!

About baseband, as others note, I get that it's a minefield.

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