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The Freedom Phone Is a Budget Chinese Phone
July 16, 2021 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 113 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/16/the-freedom-phone-is-a-budget-chinese-phone/
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Daily Beast: The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone, a $500 smartphone that comes stocked with conservative apps and promises to liberate anyone else who buys it from Silicon Valley censorship.
Despite being lauded by some of the right-wing medias leading figures, though, the Freedom Phones buyers could be getting less than they expect for its $500 price tag. Thats because the Freedom Phone appears to be merely a more expensive rebranding of a budget Chinese phone available elsewhere for a fraction of the Freedom Phones price.
Goddard:
Freedom Phone appears to be a rebranded Umidigi A9 Pro which you can buy for $120.
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Yonnie3
(17,437 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Erik Finman
Freedom Phones website is nearly totally devoid of technical information about the device. Finman declares in the promotional video that the Freedom Phone is comparable to the best smartphones on the market and truly is the best phone in the world.
In fact, Freedom Phone appears to be a simple rebranding of a budget phone called the Umidigi A9 Pro, made by the Chinese tech company Umidigi. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Finman confirmed that the Freedom Phone was manufactured by Umidigi, but couldnt say immediately which Umidigi phone it was based on.
The Freedom Phones $500 price tag would represent a substantial markup on the Umidigi A9 Pro. That phone is available on Chinese retail giant AliExpress for $120 less than one quarter of the price of a Freedom Phone.
Initech
(100,068 posts)"It's the best phone. It runs the best operating system. It has the best apps! Nobody makes a better phone than I do!"
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)Goddamn, if they weren't also so dangerous the stupidity of MAGAts might be funny.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)that has anything to do with the supposed 'censorship'
Whatever they've done to the $120 phone you could, I'm 99% certain, do yourself, for free.
And you could almost certainly do it to your existing phone, at least if you own it (i.e. aren't tied to a contract with a carrier due to owing them money for your phone).
But most people aren't too bright, so ...
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)nt