I bought a Positivo KaiOS dumbphone before the pandemic for outdoor use, but never got around to using it. I remember there being a lot of buzz around it being so cheap and jailbreaking it at the time to use FOSS apps, but I can’t find anything recent on it. Is the project dead?
Last meaningful updates were 2019, hasn’t had any sessions at Google I/O for a couple of years.
Google lost interest in it much like the “Android Go” project. I think it was because it challenged developers to try and use less RAM and Java devs have forgotten how to do that. Also, it requires a lot of bloat to run their advertising engine and the idea of writing apps to perform functions rather than generate telemetry or monetizable content is illegal in The Chocolate Factory.
