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#0 kick stand #1 if you do the chop motion, the led turns on #2 twist motion turns on the camera #3 large speaker with extra battery magnetically attaches to the back, it contains the kick stand. It is really really good for music #3.5 nice fast responsive side fingerprint reader. Not that slow under screen crap #3.6 no holepunch in the screen #4 old OS doesn't contain post 2019 three letter agency spyware #4.5 240fps 720p camera actually rules #4.6 can record in 4k pretty good #5 nice oled, 4gb ram is enough,cpu is enough, has microsd for unlimited storage, battery lasts a day, new battery is 7$, new screen is 55$, new glass is 5$ #6 cost 30$ so I bought 60x #6.9 magnetic mod 360 camera is excellent, polaroid printer is good, switch-style gamepad is excellent, car dock is excellent #7 I will eventually crack security and be able to finally do general purpose computing
Downsides verizon took a shit in the firmware No headphone jack, curse steve jobs' ghost
As for network, it is behind NAT so it can't be accessed directly. And then I don't run viruses on it. So security wise I'm bullet proof.
Thats pretty imprewsive. Thanks for elaborating. :)
I mean it when I said best phone ever made ! My next phone, I will 3d print and I aim to have all of that, plus the headphone jack and removable dual 18650
As long as you don't visit shady websites...
That's why I have a moonlight client that remotes into an isolated immutable linux VM. And I'm working on a vanilla android VM so I coild basically do any android thing but in a high security, off device sandbox.
My phone basically is just a wireless touchscreen with kick ass speakers and a slow mo camera