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?
It always struck me as odd that people were praising google for investing in what was essentially a competitor, and adding google features to it (like that bizarre Google Assistant button). Now I see why they did it.