Company Allows You to Build Your Own Hardware Phone!

[deesugar]

So apparently there is a company in the UK claiming to make custom phones with internals that you choose (that are compatible). The website has only a few working webpages but the important ones are:

Intro Page
"Ever wanted to build your own customized smartphone by selecting your own internal parts? Now, you can! DylRicho.com is proud to introduce the world's first fully-customizable smartphone, the INFINITUS™; coming soon!"

INFINITUS™ U
Chipset

• Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Prime MSM8974
• Quad-core
• Cortex-A15
• Qualcomm Krait @ 2.50GHz
• Qualcomm Adreno 320 graphics

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Very interesting...

[RumoredNow]

LOL bet it costs almost as much as these ones, but ain't half as purty.



Pro Tip: click the pic for a story...

[GMMan]

I remember hearing (or clicking the ad) about a phone that was completely Linux driven and the OS can be used on any hardware combination. It wasn't Linux, and frankly I don't remember what it was called. (I do remember their color scheme was orange.) I wonder if they're still around. This was around 2006 or so.

[TJs11thPre]

=(

[deesugar]

Originally Posted by TJs10thPre

THIS APPEARS TO BE A PHISHING SITE. my computer is telling me the site tried to install offline content; aka a virus/malware.

I DON'T RECOMMEND GOING THERE, AND WHOEVER CLICKED ON THIS HERE MAY BE DUE FOR A VIRUS SCAN AT THE LEAST POSSIBLY A SMACK IN THE GRILLE AT MOST. Dee, i think you been duped! check your machine asap.

I have not had that problem.

[webos_ftw]

Originally Posted by TJs10thPre

THIS APPEARS TO BE A PHISHING SITE. my computer is telling me the site tried to install offline content; aka a virus/malware.

I DON'T RECOMMEND GOING THERE, AND WHOEVER CLICKED ON THIS HERE MAY BE DUE FOR A VIRUS SCAN AT THE LEAST POSSIBLY A SMACK IN THE GRILLE AT MOST. Dee, i think you been duped! check your machine asap.

Nothing blew up on my end and most sites will use offline content (aka cookies)

[spcecil]

when you click on the home page it tells you that the site uses cookies, cant imagine they would advertise it if it i was malicious.

[HelloNNNewman]

Not sure why a site would be prompting for 'storing data on your computer for off-line use". It could simply be for Flash or HTML5 items... or it could be something bad. Dunno

[Grabber5.0]

<edited> More than likely it's what the Neumorator said. Can't you do a site search on Symantec's (and others I'm sure) website?

[xandros9]

Seems legit.
/s

[GMMan]

Is it me or is every major website out there telling you they use cookies? Wasn't it well known at least 10 years ago?

[Remy X]

Originally Posted by GMMan

Is it me or is every major website out there telling you they use cookies? Wasn't it well known at least 10 years ago?

I think that was well known even 15 years ago, but with the Facebook (persistant past logout) tracking cookie freakout, and the time when Google used a 'form submit' to force-set cookies on browsers set to "Do Not Track", some sites try to tread carefully in that regard now and not have some paranoid user come after them

[Remy X]

- Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out

Woah! Good one

Haven't heard of the Evercookie project, but i have come across someone talking about cookies coming back in IE after they have been deleted and the person being told to just download Chrome and go from there... must have been that, or another similar script...


Now back to the topic, that sounds like an electronics prototyping shop type business, trying to diversify their client base a bit. Nice find!
...or maybe a guy who works at one of those places, and trying to find his own clients... in any case he hasn't been paying attention to his half-built site...

[cgk]

They are telling you they use cookies because a recent change in data handling laws means they must give you the option.

Sent from my Lumia 800 using Board Express

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Originally Posted by GMMan

Is it me or is every major website out there telling you they use cookies? Wasn't it well known at least 10 years ago?

All I will say, is you would be surprised by what people don't know and think they know, and I get to talk to them every day.

[RumoredNow]

[TJs11thPre]

=(

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[GMMan]

Meh. Stuff like cookies are common. Some of us don't care to meticulously manage site tracking. Regularly whatever warning shouldn't come up, but since you're using something to one way or another show the site's actions, of course you get the warning and most of us don't.

Anyway, I don't think people want to "hack" into your computer. I do get the odd firewall warning once in a while, but it's not like the entire internet is after you. They're more likely to social engineer you into downloading something.

[Remy X]

Originally Posted by GMMan

[snip]
Anyway, I don't think people want to "hack" into your computer. I do get the odd firewall warning once in a while, but it's not like the entire internet is after you. They're more likely to social engineer you into downloading something.
[/snip]

Yup. More often than not, naked ladies are involved

I'm not too worried about stumbling onto an infected site anymore. It's been three years since i last had a piece of "drive-by download" malware, and nothing else since. A router and an up-to-date copy of Chrome Canary has served me well...

I'd think the paranoia is unwarranted, however i am concerned about what will start happening when webOS devices become an attractive target, with an outdated browser, an outdated copy of Flash, and an email client that automatically displays images. It's not the same as a copy of Windows security-wise, but still, it'd be naive to think that nothing will ever happen.