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Murena's HIROH Phone is a premium smartphone that runs de-Googled Android & has privacy kill switches (liliputing.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Can any of you nerds tell me what it would take to realistically run this in the US?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not much. It only needs to have support for our screwball 4G LTE/5G frequency bands, which are different from the rest of the world Because Reasons (well, some of the bands are, anyway, especially for 4G).

    From their specs, it looks pretty comprehensive:

    4G supported bands B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/28AB/66/71

    5G supported bands N1/2/3/5/7/8/20/25/28AB/38/41/66/77/78

    This should work pretty well with Verizon or AT&T. It'll work with T-Mobile, too, but it's missing support for just one of their 5G bands (71).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That being said, ATT has a whitelist for phones on its network, so that should be noted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's interesting, because my phone is definitely not from ATT and my cell service is US Mobile (which is a reseller of ATT). I connect to ATT towers all the time.

    I wonder how that works today.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not entirely sure, but if you are on ATT prepaid there is a bs list of phones that are supported, and while I've heard of ways of bypassing it they can revoke your phone randomly. I'm pretty sure it applies to most ATT stuff, but I suspect the main idea is that priority traffic is gatekeeped.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Currently using GrapheneOS on a Pixel in the US. After a bit of "finagle-ing" some app permissions settings, (banking app didn't like running without additional permissions that GrapheneOS blocked by default, everything works great.

    The additional security settings are welcome and very much worth it. Feels like using a proper phone, not limited by what Google thinks I should be able to do, nor is it trackable the way Google thinks it should be.

    Flashing Graphene on to the new Pixel was effortless. Simple as change 2 settings, plug in, follow a guide and click buttons on a website to wipe Google's installed OS and install GrapheneOS. If you can read this comment, you can do it too.

    Still have access to Google Play, but it's "sandboxxed" and unable to view/interact with the rest of the operating system. Can't recommend enough.

    Even ignoring all the added security and privacy, it's easily the fastest, smoothest running phone I've ever held, including others' "top end" devices. It's not even a comparison.

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