Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by deno on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @10:05AM
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Your best bet is probably to use a phablet and a Bluetooth headset for answering if you want to do VoIP.
Actually that’s one of the reasons I’m excited for smartwatches. Headset + BT-only watch + phablet + Internet AP over Wi-Fi/Bluetooth + VoIP over VPN seems like the most elegant solution to the backdoor baseband and general security and privacy issue right now.
Google’s project Ara would be the most elegant, of course. I hope this is the future, but I don’t know.
Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by jacquesm on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:15AM
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Can't you just run a regular phone without a sim and with a snipped antenna lead?
Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by dpifke on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @08:09PM
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This is an excellent suggestion; thank you. I don't think there would be room for a tablet (or "phablet") in the pockets of any of my current pants or jackets.
I wonder how easy it is to identify the cellular antenna vs. the ones for wifi/Bluetooth/NFC/inductive charging, but definitely something to look into.
Re:Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]
by userbinator on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:45AM
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no-baseband devices
a wifi-only phone
If you're looking for "Android phone without the phone", you'd be better off looking for an Android tablet.
I've been unsuccessfully looking for a wifi-only phone, ideally a relatively modern one which comes with an unlocked bootloader and can easily run Cyanogenmod.