• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Not EU so I’ll have to wait. It cost me around $40 USD in shipping and taxes just to import a damn Pinecil to Canada, my country is ridiculous.

    • The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Wanna to hear worse? In Turkey you can not import a phone with shipping. You have to bring it with yourself and register it with your passport after paying around 1000 dollars.

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      5 months ago

      I’m not 100% sure on this but there is always the possibility your carrier could always block devices it does not recognize. I need to look more into this.

      Also, it seems that someone has already started to work on bringing mobile Linux “PostMarketOS” to the new Shiftphone. It’s not even released yet. If it’s officially supported, I’ll have a favorite brand for sure. That kind of software support would be unprecedented (except maybe the Librem as mentioned earlier but their hardware repeatability is much lower).