Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with first smartphone | TechCrunch
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Minimalist phonemaker Punkt has launched its first smartphone, positioned at the crossroads between minimalism, privacy, and utility.
  • guyrocket@kbin.social
    10·
    4 months ago

    Or any pixel and putting grapheneos on it.

    I think the advantage is that you get to pay $20/mo for some software after the 1st year.

    Wtf.

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Right. Like, why would anyone pay a subscription for that?

      Edit: I think I get it now:

      Those who buy the MC02 get a year for free, after which they’ll pay around $20/€15/£13 each month (discounted if paid annually) to access a handful of services, including email, a VPN (dubbed “Digital Nomad”), online synchronization for calendar and contacts, secure storage on Punkt’s own Swiss servers and the express promise that there will be no ads or third-party crawlers.

      So you can access cloud services without being tied to Google, I suppose. Still, the value proposition is questionable.