BraX3 Privacy Phone

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Rob Braxman is making a new BraX3 Privacy Phone that works in the U.S., doesn’t use any google drivers and will help any project to port their OS to the phone. He has not tried /e/ OS, and knows that /e/ OS is used on European phone, and doesn’t realize how many U.S. models that it can be installed on. The new phone will be available for preorder at https://www.braxtech.net/ by an associated company, and right now, they are going to put their Brax O.S. on and are looking to give the option to have preinstalled iode OS. I will be buying 1-2 phones and will try to put /e/ OS on one, but I don’t know how much time I will be able to put on that project. The phone as already been approved for use on ATT and T-Mobile in the U.S.

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Interesting, but since it’s still in pre-order stage, why don’t you try suggest manufacturer to support \e\ directly ?

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I have asked them too. They are working with the developers of Ubuntu Touch and iode OS to have those OS also working on the phone. I don’t know if Rob Braxman has been able to contact /e/ foundation. (They may have even dropped support for their BraxOS, as they want to focus in other areas, and iode OS was good enough.) I have preordered 2 phone and hope to have /e/ OS running on one of them.

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I ordered one myself… iode and e are very similar in function, so I dont see them spinning a third version. Personally, I like iode very much.

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You should watch last night’s stream. Brax discusses that they are willing to with any OS vendor, but that vendor should reach out to them.

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Hi, I’m involved with the project.
We’re happy to support the porting of e/OS/ as well.

We can get you in touch with our engineers if you need help with porting e/OS/. I can ping you via email, or simply write our support at support@braxtech.net

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seems like the road to getting it ported is having a working/current GSI build pipeline and use the treble things brax provides (according to the Q&A vid) and do compatibility testing.

(it’s a MT6835T device - Mediatek SoCs used in chromebooks have a good mainline kernel / mali gpu driver story, else - not so much)

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Seems the funding is running very well:

Also a nice review for it (German only):
https://www.galaxus.de/de/page/dieses-android-smartphone-ohne-google-ist-ein-crowdfunding-hit-35747

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Would like to see collaboration of him and /e/ helping each other as well.
I like both.

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I’ve also ordered one for my 12-year-old daughter as her GS290 is starting to show signs of weakness.
I’ll be able to test IodeOS but, as a happy /e/ user on Fairphone 4, I’d love to be able to install /e/OS instead.

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I saw that phone mentioned in another thread. Looks like a great phone and Rob Braxman already said he’d fully support an /e/os port for it. Should be an easy one to knock out. Since he’s all about privacy the goals align.

The one question I have about the BraX3 is the repair-ability. Being able to DIY the battery and screen is a huge selling point for me.