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sado1 t1_ir99hgi wrote
Reply to comment by HiPat in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
I mean, I am not sure if that's interesting for you, but there are alternatives for that as well.
Sharing photos and documents (and many more things that Google's software stack can do) between all those devices is easy with NextCloud/OwnCloud. You can use an independent NC/OC provider, who will let you use this software on their own servers, or you can set it up on your own server for maximum privacy. Obvious difference between Google-provided solutions and independent providers, is that you gain a little more privacy but you have to pay a small fee for costs of operation.
I never needed to use favourite map locations sync, so I can't give you first-hand information. I have a maps plugin on my NextCloud, it allows to set favourite locations, and there is an app that allows to see them on mobile. It's not tightly integrated (it seems to be a list of favourite locations, and it launches external software like OSMAnd to show them on a map) but from the description, seems good enough.
In general, I understand that it's all not for everyone, but the only reason Google's stuff is so universally used, is people's tendency to avoid anything that needs to be paid for, marketing and the fact that the alternatives are largely unknown. (Changing that, hopefully, is the main reason this post exists)
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Reply to comment by galacticwonderer in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
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HiPat t1_ir92yhi wrote
Reply to comment by sado1 in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
Ok. But personally I want to be logged in. I want my favorite locations in maps, my photos, and my drive docs to be available on my phone, my Android tablet, my ipad and my laptops (including a Chromebook).
sado1 t1_ir925i0 wrote
Reply to comment by HiPat in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
microG allows to have best of both worlds, I am not sure how good for privacy their implementation is, but at least it allows to download apps from Google Play without logging in.
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scottjeffreys t1_ir8kh5b wrote
Reply to comment by drtitus in This device allows you to connect any landline phone to a car using bluetooth by p8pes
That’s so basic. I have a Beta tape changer in my trunk.
2001zhaozhao t1_ir8i709 wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
My old phone is faster than this.
219523501 t1_ir8b3el wrote
Reply to comment by 1stFunestist in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
To test us
txredgeek t1_ir82ggy wrote
Reply to comment by Ashdown in Matter 1.0 has been released! by rk5577
What do they connect with?
Ashdown t1_ir7tujv wrote
Reply to comment by txredgeek in Matter 1.0 has been released! by rk5577
Matter device options have been available in the dev betas for iOS 16, so arguing semantics is really all you’re doing at this point.
Mad_Aeric t1_ir7qacg wrote
Reply to Zipline drones will deliver medicine to communities in Utah | It can only do deliveries in the Salt Lake Valley area for now, but it will expand its coverage over the next five years. by chrisdh79
Wendover did a great video a while back about their operations in Africa. I'm generally sceptical about drone deliveries, but this is one of the use cases that makes sense.
fernandorincon t1_ir7o76w wrote
Reply to comment by Both_Street_7657 in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
Android without appstore, google play services, google apps, etc
emelrad12 t1_ir7goka wrote
Reply to comment by azuser55 in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek
That seems like asking for trouble. Like what about cars?
PhatRabbit t1_ir7654k wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
A Google pixel with grapheneOS will cost less.
Uncertn_Laaife t1_ir736d4 wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
Still using Google’s OS though. What are the chances that Google does a backdoor using the SimpleOS?
azhiazthesky t1_ir70opc wrote
Reply to Zipline drones will deliver medicine to communities in Utah | It can only do deliveries in the Salt Lake Valley area for now, but it will expand its coverage over the next five years. by chrisdh79
Fast forward 25 years. Zip line drones now deliver your slotted daily happiness medication to be taken at the prescribed hour while watching the mandatory augment reality program provided by Amazon, the current corporation CEO governing your work class living quadrant.
Both_Street_7657 t1_ir6xtmy wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
Holdup whats google free android ? Are they a central maintainer on android reps ? Like a mcdonalds free mcflurry
HiPat t1_ir6x1wu wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
I would be very annoyed to have a phone without Google. Seriously they provide a great value, and the only price of being tracked, which you are anyway.
galacticwonderer t1_ir6w2lk wrote
Reply to comment by sesor33 in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
And people call apple fans sheep. lol
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therealnai249 t1_ir6u79p wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
So not cheap and not good? My iPhone SE 2020 was 400, why would I downgrade for the same price lol.
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Reply to comment by Double_A_92 in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
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Double_A_92 t1_ir6s536 wrote
Reply to comment by barbernator in Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
Those contracts will be more expensive than a similar contract without the phone. Companies are not giving away free phones for fun...
Basically if you are paying more than 30-40$ a month for unlimited everything, the difference is going towards the hidden payments for the "free" phone.
barbernator t1_ir6rifj wrote
Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz
But many phone companies and s4vice providers are practically giving away brand new phones to just sign a service contract. Which your going to need regardless to have cell service.
communistfrankocean t1_ir99t5w wrote
Reply to Zipline drones will deliver medicine to communities in Utah | It can only do deliveries in the Salt Lake Valley area for now, but it will expand its coverage over the next five years. by chrisdh79
Litter in the sky.