@roberto You’re not the only one who has asked about this. 
stay tuned
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Hi @urszula and @Wojciech_Cichon, I wondered if the team had considered integrating signal since it was last discussed? Did the idea mentioned by @John_Andersson go anywhere?
Thanks a lot.
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@rhysjones we’re stuck with the idea so far. We’re constantly working to release the phone and MuditaOS so that both work perfectly in the setup we promised. I think we (including the OSS community) can come back to this topic once the phones start reaching our first backers. I hope this answers your question.
All the best!
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Thanks for this response, it means a lot. Do you think it is possible to implement at a later date given your involvement in MuditaOS thus far, or do you think there are hardware restrictions that limit it?
As far as I know, there aren’t any hardware restrictions that could ruin this. This subject was brought up on the forum I believe in this thread and many others (please search Signal). It’s mostly about making sure that Signal app for Pure would be accepted by the guys at Signal and maintained by the community.
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Re-reading this thread, I conclude that there are basically three camps. 1) people that want a smartphone with all the flexibility it can provide, at the expense of complexity, expense, privacy. 2) people that want a multi-communication device and entertainment device. Do these people even NEED a telephone? 3) people that want a basic mobile phone.
I believe that Pure was intended for the third group.
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@nicole-ksusa GREAT observation! I’m also of the opinion that sometimes, a smartphone isn’t really about having A PHONE & being connected. It’s more about convenience of immediate gratification & being entertained every second of the day 
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^ This likely encapsulates how several Mudita Pure customers see smartphones!
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I was never in quite the same situation. I am a technology professional, but I am a little older. I was an adult before smartphones became a thing. I have personally always loathed smartphones. I’ve hated how they’ve changed society. When I was a child, I dreamed about a handheld computers and how they’d change the world, but I was very wrong about the form they’d take and how they’d be used. They are essentially electronic leashes that allow humans to spend money and time on things that make no meaningful addition to our lives.
For me, the life transition similar to the one you made was stopping watching so much TV, reading so much news, and reading a bunch of pablum. I started spending more time exercising, meditating, and focusing on those things that have more meaning to me. It’s made the world of difference in my life.
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Interesting.
It’s a good analogy. Restricting movement - or rather creativity, contemplation, emotions. Or even worse, interest and understanding in others.
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I say this to myself almost every day.
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I do not want the Mudita Pure phone to be like a smartphone.
However, I would love to see a Mudita phone + text terminal, as explained here.
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The first part of this video, which YouTube suggested after I watched one of the Mudita Pure videos, does an excellent job of explaining why the presenter ditched his smartphone:
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I just wish that those that want smartphone features, would just go buy a smartphone, and stop pushing the Mudita Pure team for more features.
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Oh but there aren’t enough rectangular touchscreen phones to choose from already! We need every phone to look the same so we can argue about important stuff like aluminium versus plastic, bezels and where the camera lens is hidden and operating systems and ecosystems and security update frequency.
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Wow fascinating! Thanks for sharing - I am excited but also not exactly looking forward to watch more of his videos.
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Yeah, the tracking of a smartphone’s location when the user believes that it cannot be tracked creeped me out.
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