SMS and cellular phone calls are insecure, unencrypted and not private. We should not and cannot trust cellular carriers/providers to keep our messages and calls private.
All digital communication should be encrypted IMHO.
Please find a way to bring encrypted messaging and calls to MuditaOS and your phones. Particularily the upcoming Kompakt maybe. The best option might be integrating Signal somehow like Punkt has done with Pigeon.
I strongly prefer to get a Mudita phone but encrypted communication is very important to me and thus I have to lean towards getting a Punkt phone sadly.
Good to hear! I can’t wait to hear the full details of all the privacy and security features of the Kompakt.
I really hope encrypted (E2EE )messaging (and calls) is part of that. As far as I understand it, it doesn’t really matter how private and secure a device is if all the communication from it, specifically messages and calls are unencrypted/in plain text.
totally agree with you! it will be great if we can have either Signal, Session or Telegram for encrypted messaging as well as photo / video / file sharing
I second that Signal text only should be demake for PURE, as well as maps, since these were two KS stretch goals
that were not funded, but could make phone attractive again.
As of KOMPAKT I agree Signal should be app of choice
Probably not Signal. I think in another thread, someone said Signal stopped protecting privacy? Someone correct me if I’m wrong. I do agree with the rest.
No thats WhatsApp and since recently Telegram. People want WhatsApp in US and Africa and usualy Viber in Europe, but only Signal is secure. telegram is Russian? but has great discussion group options and easy file transfers up to 1.8 GB per file.
Perhaps sideload one app for yourself on Kompakt and make that one app an encrypted messaging one. For me I will most likely sideload Signal until Mudita incorporate it into their OS, which I believe is likely.
I am an owner of a Punkt MP02 since almost 3 years now. Every 2 months Pigeon (Signal) isn’t working for up to 1 or 2 weeks. Now it’s offline since more than 4 weeks and still no fix. That’s the reason i preordered the Mudita Kompakt 3 weeks ago, as i can sideload Signal. PUNKT is not able to adress the issue right now, but everytime Signal gets a bigger update it leads to a complete shutdown of Pigeon.
Encrypted messaging on any cellphone eventually may become meaningless. Consider, for example, an encrypted-message conversation between a non-iPhone 16 user and an iPhone 16 user, which I discussed here.
I had a Punkt MP02 for a little over a year and In that short amount of time I went through 4-5 replacements. Every single phone I received had a problem within a couple months. Pigeon being down for 2 weeks - 1 month happened twice in that year (not counting this one).
I’m done trying to convince myself that it’s a good phone. It’s a great idea with extremely poor execution. I do have a soft spot for the Punkt, but unfortunately the cons far outweigh the pros. Onto greener pastures!
Yes, same here, 3 replacements in 2 years, display issues and 2 times keyboard problems. I am glad that i discovered the mudita kompakt, as i was really interestet in the mudita pure. but for me the unique selling point is and was Signal/Pigeon. An with sideloading on to the Mudita Kompakt, it seems the perfect phone for me. Can’t wait!
Yes, same, however no replacements (yet). The buttons stick A LOT and it’s incredibly frustrating. I decided not to use Pigeon after the issues with it going down. I switch between the MP02 and Mudita’s Pure (which I prefer). The best thing about the MP02 in my opinion is the ease of tethering to other devices. I am hoping the Kompakt is very easy to tether.
I don’t use Signal and nobody uses it in my surroundings. They all use WhatsApp. So should I start fighting for WhatsApp to be standard on Mudita, when I can sideload it?
i will keep posting this over and over.