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> It bends; don't put it in your pocket. And people liked it so much you can now buy a bendy phone for $2000. https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/samsung/galaxy-z-fold2-5g.html > It's simply arrogant to assume that just because I can afford to be > online 24/7, buy the latest £400 'phone, etc. that everyone can. Even > in this country. Although (if I recall the facts correctly), in India, > where over 60% of ppl don't have access to a flush toilet, approx 80% > of the population owns a mobile 'phone. In India, one can get a JioPhone 2, which looks like a Blackberry but uses 4G internet and runs KaiOS. KaiOS is a phone operating system that is much less heavy on the CPU and battery, and has a large app store much like Android - and Indians can buy it for the equivalent of £30! Manufacturers know that they'll not be able to profit from selling £400 phones in India, so they sell these phones instead (also in Tanzania, Ukraine etc etc.) However, it's just expected in the US and UK that people will pay 3-figure sums; any phone you can buy for £30 here can barely make calls, let alone stream online videos! I find it sad that these power-efficient and cheap devices are being withheld for the purpose of forcing more profitable, wasteful models on us. It would be remiss of me on a GNU/Linux mailing list to point out where KaiOS came from: it is a fork of Boot2Gecko (B2G), itself a fork of Firefox OS, which runs on Linux. Despite the years of development put into B2G by Mozilla, and then by a community of volunteers, KaiOS is closed-source - the Mozilla Public License only has copyleft for modifications to existing files, not new ones. If Firefox OS had been under the GPL, maybe we would _all_ have the option to run KaiOS. Best wishes, Sebastian Freenode: 'seabass' -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq