The Unplugged Phone REVIEW: Convenience Or Privacy?

Here is my review of Erik Prince's Unplugged Phone!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro: To The Techies, Spec Heads & Normies
1:59 SECTION I: Degoogled Phones and Custom ROMs
7:50 The Competitive Space
12:46 The Unplugged Phone Specs
12:51 LibertOS Walkthrough
15:03 The UP App Suite
15:21 The UP App Store
15:50 App Experience Without Play Services
17:57 UP Customer Service App
19:56 SECTION II: UP Phone Review
20:02 Using Smart Wearables On Degoogled Devices
21:17 Music Streaming Apps
21:59 Unplugged's Privacy Center And Security
25:06 Advertising ID
25:54 Gaming On UP Phone & Benchmarks
26:50 Does It Work On Verizon?
27:31 UP Camera Test
29:46 Unplugged Phone Pros
33:31 Unplugged Phone Cons
36:57 SECTION III: The Bottomline
41:00 Closing Thoughts
41:57 Disclaimer And Sign Off

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[ElkoJohn]

I am using an old flip-phone and have resisted getting a smartphone because of the privacy issue, and because my 77 year old brain makes learning new things very difficult. Now, with just about everything requiring a smartphone, guess I'll have to bite the bullet. Your UP Phone review in this video is well done, and I am impressed that you answer all the questions in the comments. I am going to view all 17 of your UP Phone videos before I make a decision. Much obliged for your expertise.

[TheAndresSegovia]

For those of you getting the Unplugged Phone, would you like to see a "First Things To Do With The UP Phone" video?

[joshisanalias]

I really liked this review! Thanks for all the time that went into making it. I've been considering buying one of these for the past few days.

[theFrostySurvivor]

Excellent and comprehensive review....far better (and far less biased) then other videos I have seen. Thank you for taking the time!

[yzthory]

That’s Erik Prince .. I was employed by him .. I own this phone!

[TheAndresSegovia]

FIRST LOOK: Unplugged Phone OFFICIAL Cases!

[MoonGoon]

My main question is how does the messaging work? For example how would you text someone on an iPhone ? Does it only work on the upmessanger so other people have to get it too,

[marinebrat]

I actually have the up phone and from an actual up user I can tell you first hand this up phone was actually designed both the hardware and the software by the up tech team going to the up private messaging app and asking the up users what they would like to be added, I was and still am just one of many users in the up messaging data chat room, there's a lot of features that was added based on the feedback, one of the software features is the up phone can take an SD memory card up to 2 terabyte, as for the rest of your review I found it to be okay and as a user of the up phone itself I was Surprised and curious to what you would say, the up email is not a full service email it is a client

[papadeltavictor]

Excellent review. Sadly this phone is not available outside the US... I would immediately buy one. Greeting from France.

[WatchmanPrivacy]

What privacy is this Unplugged Phone giving the user? Hardware switches? Once you need to turn them off to actually use your phone the data leakage from before will commence. Private apps? The stock ones are all but worthless. And once you download the actual apps you need (Amazon Music and Pandora and Verizon) they will obviously still get the information you voluntarily give them within the app and probably some additional phone information as well. How often is this phone OS going to be updated? I don't see it on Github so it doesn't seem to be FOSS. I would never use an OS that isn't FOSS.

Phone privacy is about behavior and abstinence. True privacy services and devices do not make grandiose promises. And all the promises that Unplugged offers are much better delivered on the more popular FOSS custom ROMs with much cheaper phones. I won't even name one so I can't be called a shill. I'm a shill for truth and privacy: that's all.

[Amospully]

This interests me very much. I am 56 and want privacy but I love my iPhone bc of ease of use
. Lol. I guess I will wait to jump ship until it gets easier to understand. But I'm willing to do so in the future. Thank you for this video.

[ralphbuschman]

Thanks for showing me what I'm getting into if I buy a degoogled phone.

[bayareablindjuggler]

Thank you for your review and additional advice. I used to harden my Samsung phones but after several iterations it was a waste of time. Android would just reset everything.

My iPad cpu runs at 100%all the time making it unusable.

Windows 10 runs updates that I don’t want if I put it in sleep mode.

A lot of cpu time is wasted on spying on the end user. It is there to develop addictions in the user. I deleted the Starbucks app and immediately I stopped going to Starbucks. Instagram is worse.

Tech is our enemy not our friend.

[ZacValentine]

I read LibertOS as the latin 'Libertas' for 'freedom' from what i recall. Is that right?

[garylanders]

What a thorough review sir.
Thank you

[billgardner]

How about AR function? Also what are your thoughts on the app that Unplugged has for all phones? I'm debating between getting an unplugged phone or using app on a Samsung phone. I currently use a blackberry key 2 and love some of the security on that

[Evag-wb]

I love my up phone. Is built mainly for privacy.

[SKULLandBONESanonymous]

A few questions: how many different sign ins or accounts can you have and through the f-droid store if google apps, banking and social media are downloaded are they sandboxed like a graphene os? Thanks

[Kilch]

Thanks for the video. Have you tested this on Android Auto? That's important to me as I use it daily....

[marinebrat]

I'm going to share the review, and how did you unlock the photo area of the up phone, I've been trying to figure it out with not much luck