Category: Mobile Phones / Tarife

it was one of the first mobile phones with color display but… … it also had some problems. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_S25 plus: problems with charging the battery… constantly dead.

can smart phone cameras compete with the “big” ones with big lenses? more flower pictures (unedited): wanted to get the best smart phone camera that is not Apple 😜 (this phone is a offline camera-only phone (it will not get […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

Reset Basisstationen ein Reset der Basisstation bewirkt Folgendes: die Einstellungen sind im Lieferzustand die PIN lautet “0000” alle Mobilteile sind abgemeldet SIEMENS Gigaset 1010, 1015, 2010, 2015, 2011, 2016 (ausser 2016 plus) sowie baugleiche Telekom Sinus 43 und 44: Trennen […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]

short version: 2021: bin wieder bei SimDiscount X-D + D1 Masten nicht überbucht/gute Netzqualität bei Nutzung von LTE (muss Handy können, kostet 5€ extra d.h. für 25€ monatlich (Stand: 2020-01) kann man dann tatsächlich sein Handy auch nutzen (falls dieses […]

Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]

update: 2020-05 for whatever reason the following SSHDroid app does not work anymore. please checkout the even easier to use (default port: 2222) and setup: SimpleSSHD (Easy to use SSH server) – https://f-droid.org/app/org.galexander.sshd # start the ssh server app # […]

the affordable 100% Open Source phone: update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel […]

update: 2021-03: https://www.space.com/air-force-emp-attacks-protection fast answers: EMP is a serious threat to all survival of electronic devices (esp without a proper (double!) metal casing) get one of those: wrap whatever shall be EMP protected into cartonage + wrap aluminium foil around […]

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls […]

  one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]

“Thinking is hard work and not worth the effort” (The Love Police) Ever wondered why WhatsApp is for free? It is a self-surveillance tool. Phones with closed-source wifi drivers are cheap. Because to know the last detail about you – […]

FOR SECURITY REASONS, KEEP ROUTER FIRMWARE UPDATED! Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices. (src: heise.de) welcher router/welche hardware verwenden/zukunftstauglich? (ändert sich von Jahr […]

i would love iceland or any government come forth on that issue – developing and standardizing free hardware (from phones to laptops to 3d printed houses?) for it’s free citizens – without closed-source-binary-blobs and drivers. https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Machines Further hardware resources: […]

replicant.us: Samsung Galaxy Qualcomm Modem Backdoor in Software (FSF) “We are also having tough times with GPS: all the GPS chips found in the Android phones we support implement a secret and non-documented protocol that we just cannot figure out.” […]

Update: 2021: von Congstar zurück zu SimDiscount 🙂 (Drillisch) Nachdem ich jetzt 2 Jahre Congstar Kunde war muss ich sagen: Drillisch war doch gar nicht sooo schlecht X-D Aktuell der einzige Vorteil welcher mir Congstar bietet: 3er Telefonkonferenz. Meine Erfahrung […]

2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]

update: 2020-09: problems getting bigger without regular updates because a SmartPhone (no matter Android/Samsung or IOS/Apple based) are essentially complete “notebook computers” with a very very small form factor directly or NAT (NAT better to avoid direct attacks, but no […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]