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

• 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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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn’t say I consider either trustworthy/untrustworthy.
      It’s just that I don’t trust the devices enough to keep working (or even do so well) to basically waive my warranty (by purchasing it from wherever they sell it).

      Otherwise, it seems Unihertz has a better record (I didn’t find mentions of embedded malware) than Ulefone.

      If I can buy it here, I have 14 days to return it. When I was choosing a phone, and employee of the store just told me to buy all of which I am interested in, test them, keep 1, return the rest. So I bought 3 phones and returned 2.
      Not something I could do if importing a device.

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