A premium smartphone running de-Googled /e/OS, complete with hardware kill switches.
The HIROH Phone (Powered by Murena) is available for pre-sale. You can pay a €/$ 99 deposit to reserve your device and get a voucher to buy it later for €/$ 999, discounted from the retail price of €/$ 1,199.
1,200 moneys is an absurd price for a phone like that IMO. You can get a Fairphone for literally half that. I’m not so sure there is a market for ‘premium privacy phones’ that is not already satisfied by (also significantly cheaper) Pixels with GrapheneOS
NGram@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Hopefully it sells better than the other phones on the market with hardware switches (e.g. PinePhone).
That's not a flagship processor according to MediaTek; it's in their "premium" category (8000 series) which is one step down from their "flagship" category (9000 series). The RAM and storage seems possible to get on decent midrange/high-end phones in the USD $600-700ish range too. I found the Vivo V60 and OnePlus Nord 4 with similar specs pretty quickly. The Hiroh phone is definitely priced like a flagship though.
Now, I'm not saying flagship specs are really worth it these days (except maybe camera stuff), but this is definitely not a flagship phone.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
OnePlus and Vivo benefit from economies of scale. If you’re like me you often end up paying more for less. As stupid as it may sound.
NGram@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Yeah, so did I. I've got a Fairphone 4 which has midrange specs and a flagship price. But that wasn't my point; the article is wrong, the specs are not flagship territory.
Paying more for less is stupid, but paying more for things that others don't value so highly (e.g. a headphone jack, privacy, ethical production, durability, etc.) is actually smarter than buying the popular thing.