Comment on I found pre-installed (unremovable) malware on my phone, and ESET doesn't seem to be checking system apps... (Ulefone Armor 24)

carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eeeeh, some of these are far from cheap. For example, the Armor 34 Pro that I was interested in is EUR 750.
  Unique hardware, that’s why. Otherwise I’d have gotten Moto G54 5G. Actually, I tested both, I just liked the Armor 24 more hardware-wise.

  Lots of modern electronics feels too boring as it’s all the same. Phones, laptops, TVs, they especially feel like copied homework.

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  • carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Armor 34 Pro

    Okay I just had a look at that and wtf is this smartphone, battery and projector abomination?

    How about just buying projector instead? Because that thing will never fit into your pocket anyway…

    Moto G54

    Yeah that’s at least a normal phone.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The first amazon listing I can find for the armor 34 pro has “andriod 15” on the back of the phone lmao

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I daily drive the Armor 24 which is just a bit thinner. I am a man, so it does fit into most of my pockets (I hear women’s clothing has chronic lack of pockets).

      I am just that tiny bit of market who likes very unusual things. Unihertz also has some Blackberry-style phones (Titan series), but they don’t sell around here, and it’s not a brand trustworthy enough for me to import it with basically no warranty.
      By the way, Unihertz seems to fund new models via Kickstarter, which I find a bit funny.

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      • punchmesan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not that I care, but there’s a funny contradiction here. You don’t consider Unihertz a trustworthy brand, but you do (or did) consider Ulefone a trustworthy brand? Even a cursory, 30-second search for Ulefone doesn’t find anything good to say about them aside for the novel hardware. Did they have a better reputation at the time?

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I get you. I have an armour 29 pro, the hardware is insanely cool, the software… Meh at best. Still, I’m using it daily and I love the phone but now I feel like I need to fun a bunch of scans on this one too

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In this specific case, throwing /system_ext/priv-app/PriLauncher3QuickStep/PriLauncher3QuickStep.apk at VirusTotal would light it up.
      But as I found, ESET won’t care about system files.
      Sophos’ Intercept X did find it, but I had to enable scanning of system files in settings. Though I am not sure how reliable they are for AV.
      Oh, and if it finds something, it will block you from opening that app. In this case, that being main part of the UI, I couldn’t access recent apps and homescreen. So for the chance it flags Settings, it would probably be good to enable ADB in advance (and trust your computer).

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