273
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Eventually I’ll try my banking apps, which might be the sticking point as I’m not sure I can get those outside the Google App Store.

If it has a full compliant web browser, you'd still have the bank's desktop website available, yes? Though its possible the bank's website may not be written with context awareness so usability may be cumbersome, but at least you'd still have access to the information.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    My bank has a separate Push-Tan app that you use as 2fa for sending money for payments (i’m in the EU). While I’m sure there’s some workaround for the luddites and geezers (or us privacy respectin folk), I haven’t gotten that far yet. But I’ll report back when I do!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The bigger problem for me personally is that my bank uses the app to verify certain transactions and there doesn't seem to be a way around that. I'm planning on moving to GrapheneOS on my daily phone soon, my solution will be to have my old iPhone run nothing but my banking apps. It sucks but privacy sometimes involves sacrifices.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    As long as the transaction doesn't require biometrics, I wonder if you could have a traditional smartphone (iphone/android) located physically somewhere else, and a self hosted VPN that would allow you to VPN and remote control the traditional smartphone remotely. So you could run the real bank app on real smartphone hardware (no emulation), and not have to carry it having all access through your Linux phone with a remote control client.

    The downside is you'd be responsible for the burden for securing this solution, as your banking app would be one of the most critically security data concerns.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •