Has anyone ever used a Brax device? What was your experience?
a month ago by mrnngglry to c/opensource
Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. Seems it was too good to be true.
The phone looks interesting abut the other devices almost look too good to be true, like potential vaporware.
That wouldn't be dumb, but I get your point.
https://dumbwireless.com/collections/phones
How many of these do you suppose run Android. The operating system is listed in the specs. Do you suppose they are not correct?
Buyer beware. Years ago, Brax was selling end-of-life Pixel 3s (with a degoogled OS) and not letting his customers know these devices would not be receiving security updates.
Until the day I die, I will associate "Brax" with "scammer".
According to GrapheneOS, Google is the one who publishes security and firmware updates. If this is true, the Pixel 3 and 3a will remain insecure regardless of OS.
Fwiw the GrapheneOS developers themselves have spoken negatively about Braxman, as in hes a fraud I guess. I don't know the full details myself. As said above just get a used Pixel 8 or 9 and install Graphene, its really the best way to go.
Both absolutely true, AND they live in a world where a lot of money is being paid paid to attack them. It's like elections in a corrupt country: on paper you may even have fair voting, but in practice there will be constant attempts at sabotage.
They live in a harsh world. Personally, I forgive them their paranoia. A huge chunk of security+freedom on mobile currently stands on their shoulders, and on PinePhone / Librem5.
Louis Rossman is not being paid to attack them. Murena is not being paid to attack them. PrivacyGuides is not being paid to attack them. Calyx is not being paid to attack them. Techlore is not being paid to attack them. And if you think one of them are, refer to the rest, because there are many.
I guess you're right in a sense that, I'm not aware of anyone specifically getting money with the job "just hurt them somehow".
I don't know if people receive money to say other things though. Like that a googlified phone or other things are secure (when they're much less secure, and that can be proven in the technical realm). Do people receive money for that? I'm aggressively blocking all ads and barely watch any youtube at all, so I'm a bad judge for that. I've seen what looks to me as traces of that, but I could be wrong. So I'll take back my claim and just state that I merely have doubts. Maybe someone can add more information on that. If they know whether people are getting for saying that google is secure, or that some of the alternative firmware is just as secure. It would not be attacking GrapheneOS then, but it would be attacking and muddying the truth.
Louis Rossman
That one guy that's been related to nazis from FUTO?
Murena
e/os is the worst "private" mobile OS. It is just a LineageOS with a bunch of proprietary crap. Their STT even uses OpenAI as a provider.
Also Murena founder has made some diabolical claims about exploits about how they aren't developing their OS for "pedos":
However, we don't have a "hardened security" approach, we aren't developing a phone for pedo(censored) so they can evade justice.
PrivacyGuides
PrivacyGuides recommend GrapheneOS as the only AOSP-based mobile OS, what do you mean? Calyx is not being recommended by them.
I don't know anything about Calyx or Techlore critique, so I can't comment on that.
That is entirely false.
no they don't
This guy's videos get pushed a lot to people interested in privacy. He also (used to?) advertise his own "secure social media" with no metadata/tracking, until some other youtuber discovered it had security vulnerabilities. I'd suggest, stay away from anything related to Brax
To his credit, Rob's videos introduced me to cell phone privacy. But his products are all just pre-flashed off-the-shelf devices. The bespoke Brax phone models are merely rebranded mid-tier phones from a generic ODM. None of it is more secure than what GrapheneOS on a Pixel offers and all of the offerings have alternatives that are cheaper or better audited.
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I have one. It kinda blows. Just get a used pixel 8 or 9 and install grapheneOS. That's what I ended up doing.
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