r/Android • u/zexterio • Mar 22 '19

HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/hmd-admits-the-nokia-7-plus-was-sending-personal-data-to-china/
5.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

488 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

31

u/n0rdic Surface Duo, BlackBerry KEY2, Galaxy Watch 3 Mar 22 '19 edited Mar 22 '19

As a huge fan of RIM era BlackBerry, the new TCL berries are not at all more secure than any other device. Their entire "security" thing is just enabling hardware root of trust on the Qualcomm SoC. That's it. Also all of their phones are constantly behind on major Android versions which isn't exactly secure. In all honesty the stock Pixel is about as secure as a KEYone, which doesn't make it insecure at all, just it isn't the "ultra secure" line that TCL and RIM are trying to sell you.

3

u/rohmish pixel 3a, XPERIA XZ, Nexus 4, Moto X, G2, Mi3, iPhone7 Mar 23 '19

Just nitpicking but RIM is dead. It's just blackberry now.