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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by teddyh on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:33AM (#28290217)
Not, reportedly, the Librem 5 phone.
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by grishka on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:06PM (#28294232)
But it still contains a cellular modem and a wifi module, both of which run proprietary firmwares.
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by teddyh on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:54AM (#28300464)
But, crucially, they both run externally to the CPU and main system, and can not affect it in any way. It’s just as if they had put the firmware on a ROM chip beside the modem and wifi chip.
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by ERD0L on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:52AM (#28290482)
A phone, sure, a smartphone, not a chance
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by teddyh on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:46PM (#28291386)
The Librem 5 is absolutely a smartphone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:04PM (#28291731)
Your linked page calls it a "phone" not a "smartphone", so you're proving GP's point.
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by teddyh on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:28PM (#28292116)
What. By that definition, the Google Pixel 5a is not a “smartphone” either, since its product page does not use that term, either: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_5a_5g?hl=en-US
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:39PM (#28292322)
Your leg is being pulled.
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by teddyh on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:56AM (#28300478)
*plonk*
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Re:Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you u... by yellowapple on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:14PM (#28291899)
By what metric is it somehow not a smartphone?
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