Comment by dgellow
2 days ago
Strange nitpick. I never heard of a phone with an actual hardware privacy switch. Is that a thing? I don’t think that’s enough to dismiss the „privacy phone“ label, given it is indeed a phone focused on privacy, and that label doesn’t have a strict industry meaning.
Though to be honest the privacy switch is a gadget feature, I don’t expect anyone to have an actual use case for this
Pinephone https://pine64.org/documentation/PinePhone/Privacy_switches/
Those are not really usable as something you toggle on/off when needed, since they are under the battery cover and you are strongly recommended to only flip them while the phone is off.
Cool that they are there, but not suitable for what most people actually want.
> I don’t expect anyone to have an actual use case for this
The people who remove the batteries from their cellphones do.
Actually, that would be a nice feature too, having a power disconnect switch as well.
Several Alt phones have done this, including the Librem in addition to the others people have pointed out to you in sibling comments.
Furi Phone (furilabs.com) has 3 hardware switches on the side. Runs Linux