![]() ![]() I would reluctantly buy a phone with a camera hole if it was otherwise acceptable and there was no ideal option on the market. I think it's more in keeping with the ideal 2015 design to make the bezel just large enough to contain a camera, speakers, light sensor, flash/LED, etc. I realize this is more controversial, but I don't know the last time I even used a front camera. ![]() Likewise, I have not much interest in a phone with a hole punched in the screen (?!) for a camera or an ugly "notch". I just know that I (and many others) won't consider buying your phone unless it has a jack. That's apparently anathema for modern phones, but probably 90+% of us want it. Design wise, that means that you've got to have another hole in the bezel, because there's going to be an earphone jack. What most of us want are the particular set of trade-offs made by phones around 2015. > Sub 6" display, matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini Thank you for working on this! I want to be honest, though, and say I think you're missing what the majority of users on this forum want in a small phone. Failing to produce a device with this capability is a failure to address a key and leading market. Many people who also work with Classified information, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), or just with business security issues have the same need. Not only that, while eavesdropping the signals on the headphone wires will yield only a conversation in the room, which can be much more easily gathered directly, cracking a Bluetooth 2-way comms channel will yield much greater access to the device.įor most of us, neither is a concern, but it certainly is for people who do have real security needs, e.g., I've read that the current VPOTUS specifically uses wired headphones for this reason. To do this against a ~1m wire with millivolt signals without putting a clamp around the wire seems pretty tough in contrast to cracking a signal that is explicitly broadcast with not great security. This still requires access to get malware onto the device itself, and I'm more considering 'drive-by' or remote attacks in my comment. The latter seems to be the mode used in the (pretty coo) hack you posted - it's software attacking the Realtek chip, which must be driven by the wire, so exploiting the quasi-equivalence/reversability of speakers/microphones and the back signal from the speaker diaphragms. Yes, there are ways to extract signal from almost anything.Įavesdropping on either the output of the headphones or the audio data before it leaves the computer/phone is the same for wired vs Bluetooth. If you want a small premium Android phone, this may be your last chance (ever?) to help bring back the phone category that we love. If no one else builds one, and enough people sign up.maybe I will be forced to make it myself. I will put them to use in our shared quest to get the perfect small Android phone. I have a very specific set of skills and industry connections that I have acquired over a long career in the hardware business (my first startup was Pebble). My goal with is to rally other fans of small phones together and put pressure on Google/Samsung/Anyone to consider making a small phone. So I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve resorted to using an iPhone Mini, biding my time and hoping desperately that some Android OEM would step up.īut it’s increasingly clear that a small premium phone is not on the roadmap. The Pixel 6 is gigantic, and the Pixel 7 looks like it is also destined to be huge. But after the Pixel 5, I have not been able to find a suitable small Android replacement. I’m a long-time small phone Android user.
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