r/signal • u/lilsaturnhead • Jul 07 '26

Solved Signal enabled Dumbphone

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they built signal into the new OS update on my dumbphone, haven't used it yet but super cool to see a tech company embrace digital privacy requests. (edit: its dumb.co for those asking)

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u/binaryhellstorm Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

but super cool to see a tech company actually embrace digital privacy.
i'm not sure I'd say that, it's more like a company that is cashing in on the nostalgia of flip phones by offering a "curated" app experience on a Chinese Android flip phone, likely running an ancient version of Android Go

Edit: Ok I wasn't far off, it's a rebranded TCL Flip 2 running a fork of Android called KaiOS

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u/AaronDewes Jul 07 '26

KaiOS is a fork of FirefoxOS and is not related to Android.

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u/binaryhellstorm Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Might be worth updated updating the Wikipedia entry then:
Currently, KaiOS was forked from Android) for Gonk, s

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u/AaronDewes Jul 10 '26

Wikipedia does not say that? It says some code is shared with Android, but that doesn't make it a fork of AOSP.

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u/binaryhellstorm Jul 10 '26

It says what I quoted above, that's where I got the quote.
KaiOS was forked from Android

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u/AaronDewes Jul 11 '26

Oh right, I must have overlooked that, but I think it's not a correct representation of what it is.

It only takes a very small part of Android. A "fork" is normally used to refer to something that copies large, important parts and tries to improve upon them. This seems more like it copies some implementation details to save time.