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		i_am_proteus 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphone... This is a very important point. Jolla's pre-order site (https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder) states: >User configurable physical Privacy Switch - turn off your microphone, bluetooth, Android apps, or whatever you wish Unless that user configuration is via internal jumper or DIP switch, then this cannot be a hardware privacy switch.

ttkari 3 months ago [–]

Exactly. And on that list, running Android apps on SFOS is very much a software feature, imo quite unlikely to be disabled purely in hardware.

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