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ZeroPhone Is "Coming Soon": A Raspberry Pi-Based, Linux-Powered Phone For Just $50
With data security and privacy becoming an alarming issue while dealing with the data-hungry companies, ZeroPhone seems like a sigh of relief. ZeroPhone is a Raspberry Pi-based, open-source, Linux-powered handset that has been launched as a project on Crowd Supply; we’ve already told you about the phone in the past. The device promises no carrier locks, no pre-loaded apps and good riddance from harvesting of data without users’ knowledge.
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It looks like the internals of an old Nokia phone. If this thing is going to be run on a rpi that means it's OS will be run off of an SD card, I just don't know if that's a good thing. I've had rpi media players and game players and at some point that sd card corrupts, maybe in newer rpi's that isn't a problem but in older ones it was.
Also, I'm willing to bet that price is the cost of the phone pieces and the board not the cost of the case, sd card and charger cable.
So... I'd be better off buying some old phone off of eBay or Amazon than this thing due to the lack of data or a screen to use that data with. Because let's face it the most touted feature of this is the no tracking stuff, well it's still a phone there will be tracking in some form.