I was very hopeful about this, been using a phone I bought in 2015 trying to wait out buying another one because I have one of the few phones that came WITHOUT the facebook app preloaded, and I like it that way because I'm not on facebook. The more and more I try to reach out to this company, the fewer answers I get. My first email to this company was on 7/14, which still has not been answered.
Today I went back to their website and saw that they had a chat feature. I thought, "good! Now I'll get some of the answers I've been looking for." Yeah, not so much. The chat begins in an automated fashion asking for your name, email address, etc. No problem, I typed all that in. Then it says, "We'll be back in 53 minutes" and states that I'll receive answers to my questions both in the chat window, as well as in my email. I am now a full 2 hours past the point when I initiated the chat, I have no answers, no reply at all - I even typed in the chat window after an hour, "So....back in 53 minutes....it's now been an hour...Anyone there?" Then after another half hour I typed, "Hello? Been trying to reach you guys for over an hour and a half now..." Nothing - no response at all. NO email.
If this company is legit, why won't they answer any questions at all? Their customer service is nonexistent. This is a red flag in my opinion - I wanted to ask if anyone else has had any luck at all getting through to these people BEFORE placing an order?
We can’t trust a word the extreme leftist NPR says.
YOU ARE AWESOME - thank you for this link!!! Yes this is my fear behind all the other crap, that Patriots are being duped in this very fashion. Thank you SO much for this link, Fren - I appreciate it!! :)
Yep...FBI honeypot
Actually I was looking forward to someone, anyone, making a phone that uses an OS other than apple or google. It's not so much about politics, as it is about legitimately being spied on and our information stolen, our phones listening to us - and that does happen, I've proven it. I don't like apple or google, and therefore I don't really want a phone that has anything to do with them. So this is about more than just "politics", a lot more. I'm just very disappointed and want to make sure anyone considering buying this phone is aware of their lack of transparency and customer service.
So I emailed last night to cancel my order of this phone as it won't ship till August. Today I received confirmation of the refund and a follow-up email asking why I decided to cancel. So I experienced good service, just backed off the order due to $$ and I'd like to be able to hopefully see the phone in person before committing $$.
Check youtube for Rob Braxman Tech. He actually has phones that he has taken all the spying out of. He de-googles phones. Brilliant guy. These freedom phones transfer by taking the sim cards from your iphone or other phone and inserting them in the freedom phone. Most sim cards are part of the tracking process so you are just transferring the old tracking into the new.
Thank you for the tip - I will check that out.
https://www.howtogeek.com/348545/how-to-install-lineageos-on-android/
How to Install LineageOS on Android phones
Thank you so much!
You are more than welcome, Patriot.
Good Luck, enjoy your freedom.
Thats what happens when a company gets swamped. They are probably getting thousands of questions an hour.
That's a fair enough point, but it seems like that's the time to hire more people. Or at least set up something like an out-of-office type message that automatically responds to people via email to state, "we are experiencing a high level of email volume..." or something like that. Any kind of response would be good. And here I was on their "live" chat feature on their website, waiting and waiting, nobody's there. It's just frustrating.
If faux conservative MSM radio pundits push it, don't buy it.
Well but that's just it - this is being advertised by thegatewaypundit.com, which is a pretty darn based website. This is my dilemma.
I think it’s almost certainly legit. The fact that the leftist MSM are trying to debunk this as a cheap Chinese phone shows they’re panicking and scared of what would happen if we started buying Freedom Phones. I have already purchased two for me and the wife. We’ll be excited to receive them next month so we can finally get rid of this Korean crap.
I appreciate your input - thank you!
https://www.xda-developers.com/tag/lineageos/
Reports, articles and downloads for LineageOS - free
Thank you!! :)
I've read that this is actually a cheap generic, Chinese phone, with a good hardware spec that can be purchased new for around 150 euros.
The software/OS is a free custom ROM available for a wide range of Phones, called LineageOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDA_Developers
No offense but I wouldn't believe Wikipedia about anything, they're way too compromised. This phone is actually made in Hong Kong, that much I know for sure.
My point is that ANY Android phone can be installed with LineageOS for just the cost of the hardware.
I will definitely look into this - I appreciate the tip, I am clueless about this kind of thing. I'm not tech savvy at all, so this is a challenge for me. I can use the computer and the phone, but I have no idea how they work.