The United States is the cradle of innovation, there is no doubt about it. Sometimes they surprise us for the better, although sometimes they surprise us for the worse. This is the case of the Liberty Phone, a curious device at a price not at all accessible and that it doesn’t exactly have the best specs on the market.
This phone is promoted as a safe alternative to the iPhone. The basic idea behind its development is based on a sector of American society that understands that if something is made in China, automatically becomes controlled by your government. There’s a lot of politics behind it. With this in mind, this company is launching a device produced entirely in the United States to cover this market segment. It’s very legal, of course, but it’s not an iPhone alternative. We tell you.
Pay 2,000 dollars for a 300 phone
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 state-of-the-art components: The best processor available, 108MP cameras, OLED display with 120Hz variable refresh rate, all-day battery life, and at least 1TB of storage. However, these expectations could not be further from reality.
Its screen is 5.7 inches uses IPS technology and comes with a resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels. It brings 4 GB of RAM and 128 storage. Its processor is a Cortex-A53. Old and low end. It scores a multi-core Geekbench score of 1638. The iPhone 14 Pro comes in at 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 frames are quite thin and that it is made almost entirely in the United States. It’s not ugly at all, but it’s not the design of the year either. In general, this is a lower mid-range device – below average – that sells for twice as much as an iPhone 14 Pro. Security. Or so 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, which is based on Linux, promises to be the safest in the worldbut he does so based on a series of assertions that are not entirely clear and are somewhat inaccurate.
The company provides the user with a comparison table that lists everything PureOS includes and what Android and iOS do not include. The problem is that half of the things stated there are not very precise, as well as vague, something they surely did on purpose to avoid legal trouble. We leave you the table below and we comment on it.
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 downloading an application on the iPhone, you receive a notification that you must allow us to be tracked. If we don’t allow it, the developer won’t have the ability to do so. In other words, they are disabled by default.
The next section of the table talks about “privacy by default”. It’s too vague. What does that mean exactly? Nobody knows, because you can’t know, and they’re playing with it. The truth is that Both iOS and Android are pretty good at this.. In fact, when we think of privacy and technology, an image of Cupertino usually comes to mind.
If you want to sell yourself as a safer alternative to the iPhone, you need to be able to prove it.
The next statement is just as vague as the previous one: “He’s not following you.” We saw a moment ago that trackers were disabled by default on the iPhone. So what is it ? Are you talking about another type of tracking? GPS maybe. They know what they put here is too imprecise, and they do it that way for that very reason. The more vague it is, the harder it is to prosecute because they can say they meant something else and you can’t prove otherwise.
We could go on like this with all these statements, but I think we’re starting to see where it’s at. Most likely they sold very few, if any, units and It is simply not profitable for hackers to develop a virus for this operating systembut given the nature of their claims, and that they employ 24 employees according to LinkedInI am quite clear that it is no more secure than iOS, which is developed by 12,000 engineers, or Android, which is developed by a similar number.
At Applesfera, if what you are looking for is a mid-range, we recommend something like an iPhone SE or even a refurbished iPhone 12, which will surely fit your budget, and if you already want to spend more money, the iPhone 14 Pro is your best option right now. Of course, keep in mind that the iPhone 15 will be released in two months.
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