Pledged for a phone in Dec 2025. Anyone received one of these yet(newest model I guess)? I did get an email saying they would begin shipping beginning of March 2026 but then I think I saw that they may be delayed (until mid March i think). What has anyone heard that is expecting one of these?
As far as I remember they start shipping mid-March.
General response: I ordered B3 back in Oct 25, but do to moving & other set backs on my end, and postponements on Manufactures end, I haven’t received order. I receive notifications which seem like I’m required to spend time in the online community? But with my lack of technical understanding & not having a product to need help with, what am I to talk about with the community? I’m not good at, nor am I given to small talk. If I started talking politics you wouldn’t like me in due time, so that leaves the community, and me wanting. I accept this since it is typical in my life nowadays, but I ask the community to accept I have no technical knowledge to share until my phone comes. Then I hope to learn & add to its features, battery case, etc…
If you are going to receive the new batch it is shipped mid-March, else check that you haven’t missed some SMS or email from the delivery service, it’s a very complicated delivery system, you may need to respond with a location where you want to have the package delivered.
Please let me know when you get one. I want to do an Open Box on Youtube to compare the later production BRAX3 with the initial batch. It is supposed to have a brighter screen so that you can read it in direct sunlight. But before I order it I want someone else’s opinion. There must be a reason for it not being a Brax3.5? Does it use Ubuntu Touch or are we we still stuck with the Google built and maintained AOSP which will be supported only if it includes the Google Play store. “Starting in March 2025, Google confirmed that all core Android OS development will now occur exclusively in private internal branches, accessible only to Google and companies with a Google Mobile Services (GMS) licensing agreement. “ What happened to deGoogled phones? Will Google “Un deGoogle” these phones? It seems to be a Big Tech war of who gets to control client side extraction/exfiltration under the pretext of Ai. They hate degoogled anything as well as Linux distributions.
Huh, I haven’t gotten any of those emails. I’m technical ( an EE) but not accustomed to chat rooms or forums. I’ve read plenty but am struggling with the interface herte. I’m not even sure if I’m responding to saj54 or to the entire thread but I understand your hesitancy to talk politics. Probly better to do that elsewhere. Acyually I think there is a “category” for discussions of any kind that I saw. Maybe there you can get away with it! Thanks for your reply.
Thanks George. Now I’m not sure if I entered my mailing address anywhere. Don’t think I’ve missed any SMS nor emails requesting address but will keep an eye out. Its not mid-March so I’m not worried…yet.
I’ll try to let you know when/if I get mine. My understanding though is that the OS is iode (spelling?) which is a branch off AOSP and I would be surprised to learn that it was developed under the watchful eye of Google. I mean its open source so anybody can “watch it” but not developed with thier help or oversight. Thats my understanding anyway. You can watch the man himself, Rob Braxman, explain it on youtube. Thanks for your reply.
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I just found Rob Braxman’s website, Brax.me, where he’s got lots of other privacy solutions. Its a great resource. The DOJ doesn’t look kindly on all this privacy stuff and it’s highly admirable that Rob Braxman is willing to put himself out there. Check it out.
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I am interested in the first x86 Linux supported tablet that works like a typical Linux laptop such as a Thinkpad.
Probably non-ARM/RISC-V tablets won’t exist, the closest to what you are looking for are those Yoga laptops that the keyboard folds behind the screen.
Yes, I am aware of his website and Youtube channel. I also have a few others that may be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/@NaomiBrockwellTV https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage/videos https://www.youtube.com/@NetworkChuck https://www.youtube.com/@davidbombal https://shop.hak5.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@hak5
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Hey pizzalinux1, thanks for the links. Checked em all out and subscribed to davidbombal (tutorial to install Kali on a virtual machine) but sure couldn’t figure out what that fella on hak5 was doing with his pinnapple pager. The vid was like watching one half of a phone conversation.
Privacy is mostly an attitude and there are some basic ways of conduct.
- Assume they can find anything any time since they control the infrastructure.
- Don’t make accounts as much as possible and don’t disseminate personal information on the internet.
- Though you can have a private email service there is no point since you are sending emails to Google, Outlook, Yahoo etc.
- Using very sophisticated privacy tactics like the Cape carrier makes you a target.
- When they reach you, they should not be able to find anything either because you are a regular guy watching porn or because you have already wiped out everything, like in the case of border crossing where you prefer to attempt to cross with an empty unlocked phone rather than catching fights refusing to unlock the phone like provoking them to make you a target.
- If you are some kind of activist the rationale is that the moment they access your data you will already have fled to some other country for an asylum.
- To get a bit into politics, most open-source foundations are controlled by “woke” people, for example the Tor Project asks for donations to develop the project and then they spend the money for tutorials on privacy to specific groups but not others, like the abortion activists in Brazil, in that case choose more carefully where you donate your money.
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It is the collection of data that itself violates privacy and easily inhibits security at all levels. What you see in most privacy regulations and laws is “security-privacy” theater that means NOTHING to anyone who understand the details of the laws and the technologies.
Any such law and regulation says that they can collect anything but you don’t have to worry because they are processed for specific reasons or are processed anonymously and similar things.
Say what? When data is created, it was created for a purpose. One of those purposes is to be able to read the data. Thousands of laws concern the “reading” of data, but those laws are severely restricted by the governments that have the laws. Example: Belize is a tiny island but there are hundreds of banks and insurance companies that have offices there. Belize laws are Lax about privacy rules from other countries. Who cares? If one makes an inquiry from Belize to a data center in Belize to a server in any other country, what privacy laws were broken? Privacy? Nonsense. If you have the money or connections, No data is private. Privacy theater is what many call it. Talk talk and no action.
Since this is some infrastructure developed and maintained by a regime there is no reason that it would protect your privacy, from that point on is the question of what is the purpose of the regime, for example if it was to protect the integrity of a nation you probably wouldn’t like foreigners roaming around in privacy. In Europe, North America and generally the “westernised” world the regime does completely inverse, contrary in China the regime doesn’t seem to try to replace the population while recently takes measures against degeneracy to counter the low birth rates, no matter how much dark propaganda the western governments do against the Chinese state they will never accuse it of Orwellian tactics and anti-privacy because they use the same tactics, conversely they will regularly praise China for its measures like enforcing vaccinations though the totality of the information of what happens in China comes from western media, at least if you don’t do some research on the internet for independent personal experiences.
Yeah like that HIPA nonsense they always try to get you to sign at the doctors office. Read closely it says they can give out your info for “law enforcement purposes” which mean a cop coming in and asking for it.
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Thanks for responding to my post about Brax3 shipping time! I logged in today to find any new information about the same issue of when the new batch in “Mid March” is shipping? I’m very anxious to get the Brax3 since I’ve become acutely aware of the reported ways our Tech can be monitored. I need to learn more about many more ways our tech can be monitored, but from what I understand the Commoner will always be on the Defense when it comes to Cyber Security? But if we don’t want to by herded from one digital prison to another, we have no choice but to learn about IT or Info Tech. I’m currently switching to Linux OS on computers, and wanting to switch my phone to the Brax3 when I get it. It is very difficult to navigate all the possible compromised websites, using questionable tech hardware, and questionable software? I become mired down with questions of which website, app, or approach is the most secure? Not good for optimizing a healthy lifestyle! So, I’m very anxious to get a phone system I can learn to trust! Hopefully, that will come soon? Then, many of you will wish you hadn’t opened your forum to a person who wants / needs to know everything!
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