Here, I fixed that for you:
After extensive testing, it’s finally here: the new SHIFTphone 8.1 with iodéOS is now available at NovaCustom! It’s a
privacy‑friendlyphone that’s notonly user‑friendly andsecure, but also sustainable and fully modular. This smartphone stands forprivacy, security, freedom of choice (where is the freedom of choice when you are tricking and misleading people into buying it?), and repairability: values that perfectly align with NovaCustom’s mission.
In all seriousness, I am very much not stoked to see yet another scam[1] of a ‘privacy’ phone, which does a huge disservice to the privacy and security communities. It’s even less cool to go around parading it on basically every forum[2] in existence while consistently failing to disclose your financial conflict of interest[3].
For anyone who is genuinely considering getting a phone like this, I implore you to reconsider. It’s unfortunately abundantly clear that NovaCustom’s motives are financial and only extend as far as marketing privacy and security, not actually delivering on these promises (which is substantially more difficult). If you are concerned with privacy and/or security, you are much better off getting a Pixel running GrapheneOS or an iPhone if you can, or, hell, in many cases, devices from many other run-of-the-mill Android OEMs.
a dishonest plan for making money or getting an advantage, especially one that involves tricking people ↩︎
techlore, hacker news, r/degoogle to name a few ↩︎
not to mention your personal conflict with GrapheneOS ↩︎