Personally, Having a Phone that have Kill Switch make me feel more secure and Comfortable
I wonder why Brax Phones doesn’t have it, where as Rob BRAXMAN emphasized the importance of having kill switches as he mentioned on YouTube
Do you think we should add this in the future?
Any thoughts guys?
Hi Robert.
That’s a good feedback.
It’s all about scale. The bigger scale we can reach, the more options we will have on hardware customizations - especially for smartphones (a lot to pack in a small form factor). But we’re slowly getting there.
In the meantime, we’re working on some other device form factors that we have more flexibility with.
I would also love to see physical kill switches on the next iteration of the BraX phone. To my knowledge, the only devices with physical kill switches are the Librem 5 ($800) and the Unplugged Phone ($989). I suspect that these hardware switches will add significant cost to the build. The BraX3 is very reasonably priced compared to other options and allows for more users to enter the privacy phone space. Perhaps the next BraX device could have a standard and a Pro version with kill switches.
Thank you for the feedback.
The switches don’t actually add cost in terms of COGS. They do add quite a lot of R&D, but it can be all amortized if we’re selling a decent amount of phones. We’re getting closer to that volume.
I understand about physical switches. I was expecting (still hoping for) software toggles for SIMs and Cameras, like those for WiFi, Bluetooth, dark mode etc. The software toggle (enabled thru developer mode) for sensors works well. Any hope for future firmware upgrade?
BTW. no complaints, all seems well, I THANK YOUR TEAM!
SIM solution was posted in other thread… THANKS!
The SHIFTphone 8 also has kill switches for mic and cams:
But it costs almost twice as much as the BraX3, isn’t available yet and will still be on Android 14. 
Iodé sells this as a preoder now, it will ship with 6.x / Android 15 when available.
Water resistance is an excellent idea. It reminds me of the small paper discs that Apple embeds in their products to avoid supporting warranties. I know of users who never had their i device anywhere near water sources, but their warranty requests were denied because of the relative humidity even in the lack of moisture, water or steam..
I would love to see that as well, and also an optional lora radio for meshtastic use. I feel like the first people to come out with a solid combo of privacy phone and mesh coms will have a market.
We will also require a portable antenna with stand so we can best exploit LoRa. An LNA and RF amp would also be nice along with companion battery pack and portable solar panel. I would extend this to a Walki Tappie with built in Keyer break in and small portable Iambic Bencher like paddles. I always carry a few sets of these micro sized light weight paddles just in case.
This totally caught my eye, OM!
the open_slate project is a prep for a brax phone with switches.
Oh! Rough time frame? A year?
We will have more clarity within the next 30 days or so. I don’t want to guess, but unlikely tro ship this year. The project takes about 9-10 months from start and we’re busy with open_slate for now.
@plamen I forgot to ask, what was the outcome of the decision to go to physical kill switches on the brax phone?
We will do it.
Excellent! I’m all in.
(can somebody tell me when to buy it?)
Plamen, I have been interested in Brax3 since I first saw the specs and ordered one when you could do that from the store at brax.me. That didn’t work out and I had to get hold of Rob to get a refund. But he got a big “Thank you, SIR!!!” from me when I saw that credit on my card.
Like I said, that was from brax.me store. Now we have to go to Indegogo and I haven’t seen many enthusiasts for that site. I know I don’t like it or the comments about others’ experiences with them.
Any way that can be shifted back to the shop on brax.me?
It may be easier to put an interface for lora, radio, etc… to be added afterwards and see how many prefer that by selling it separately as a per unit production cost. Both LoRA and Radio benefit from longer antennas anyhow. Maybe something like a back case with the stuff in there.