While half the world has its eyes fixed on the iPhone 16, in the United States, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on the Liberty Phone, a curious device with a price that is not at all accessible. We’re talking about nothing more and nothing less than $1,999 for a cell phone. which doesn’t exactly have the best features on the market.
This phone is presented as a safe alternative to the iPhone. The idea behind its development is based on a sector of American society that understands that if something is made in China, becomes automatically controlled by his government. A political argument with solid foundations. With this in mind, in the Purism digital store we can buy a terminal entirely produced in the United States to cover this market segment. It is very legal indeed, but it is not an alternative to the iPhone. We tell you why
Paying $2,000 for a phone that should cost $200
The Liberty Phone is a mobile device manufactured by the company “Purism” and sold for more than 2,000 dollars. Taking this into account, You would think it would be equipped with countless cutting-edge components.: the best processor available, 108MP cameras, an OLED display with a variable 120Hz refresh rate, an all-day battery, and at least 1TB of storage. However, these expectations couldn’t be further from reality.
Its screen is 5.7″, uses IPS technology and comes with a resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels. It comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Its processor is a Cortex-A53. Old and low-end. It gets a Geekbench multi-core score of 1638. The iPhone 14 Pro reaches 6330.
The front camera is 8MP and the rear camera – it only has one – is 13MP. In its favor it must be said that it has Bluetooth 5.3, that its side bezels are quite thin and that it’s made almost entirely in the USA. It’s not completely ugly, but it’s not the design of the year either. In general, this is a low-end device – below mid-range – that sells for twice as much as an iPhone 15 Pro. The reason? Security. At least that’s what the company says.
Is this device safe?
Yes, but it’s not necessarily more secure than an iPhone. It uses its own operating system: PureOS, based on Linux, promises to be the safest in the worldbut it does so on the basis of a series of claims that are not entirely clear and somewhat inaccurate, and at no point supported by analysis reports from experts who were able to access it and carry out blind tests.
The company provides the user with a comparison table that shows everything that PureOS includes and what Android and iOS do not. The problem is that half of the things stated there are imprecisebesides being vague, which they probably did on purpose to avoid legal problems. We leave you the table below and comment on it.
PureOS, an operating system that “doesn’t track”
We see that it is said that PureOS has the famous “trackers” disabled by default, and that iOS does not. However, since iOS 14, when you download an application on your iPhone, you receive a notification in which you must allow us to be tracked. iOS 18 is even more comprehensive on this point. If we do not allow it, the developer will not have the possibility to do it. In other words, they are disabled by default.
The next section of the table talks about “privacy by default.” That’s too vague. What exactly does that mean? Nobody knows exactly and they’re playing with it. The truth is that iOS and Android are pretty good at this.. In fact, when you think of privacy and technology, it’s easy to imagine the Cupertino brand’s products.
The next statement is exactly as vague as the previous one: “it doesn’t track you.” A moment ago, we saw that trackers are disabled by default on the iPhone. So what are they talking about? Are they talking about some other type of tracking? GPS maybe. They know that what they’re putting here is too imprecise, and that’s precisely why they’re doing it. The more vague it is, the harder it is to sue.because they can say they were referring to something else and you can’t prove otherwise.
We could go on and on with all these statements, but I think we’re starting to understand where this is going. It is not known how many units were sold.. What is clear is that it is not profitable for hackers to develop a virus for this operating system. Given the nature of their statements, and the fact that they have 24 employees according to LinkedInI would be very clear that it is no safer than iOS, developed by 12,000 engineersor Android, which does a similar number.
In Applesfera, if the buscas is a media range, we recommend you even like an iPhone SE or including a reconditioned iPhone 12, which will enter safely in your presupuesto, and if you want gastar more dinner, the iPhone 15 Pro is your better option right now. Of course, the iPhone 16 has some time left and it might be worth the wait. But this kind of Donald Trump’s Favorite Phone This does not convince us.
An older version of this article was originally published on 12/07/2023.
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