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I'm curious, what's make the app unusable according to you? Genuine question.

Here is a break down of the permissions:

- microphone: used to capture your voice to communicate with someone

- phone: you can send sms throught the app

- contacts: to associate a ring id with a contact (and have the phone number to send sms

- storage: to store your private key

- location: I admit, that one is weird

I don't really get that part. You have everything needed to build it yourself (and so host it) on the wiki [0].

Also, everytime someone builds something now, it seems to be the first comment out there "it needs to be self-hosted". I get that this is a security oriented communication app, so it needs to be audited and open sourced so we can trust it, but now that this part is OK, people are finding something more to ask: the self-hosting part.

0: https://projects.savoirfairelinux.com/projects/ring/wiki/How...

Ring has some UI problems but I hope it'll get better. It's open source and a company in Montreal contributes a lot to its development.

The big problem right now is the scope of the app. They want to do too much at the same time (text, voice and video).

Anyway, I like the effort and I hope it succeeds.

Magic+ 11 years ago

That would change the price of the hour. We can still say $1.66 per minute but less appealing than $1.

Nexus 5 13 years ago

They seem to still have the 32GB black and white in stock actually.

Nexus 5 13 years ago

That was fast. I though they said it won't be like for the Nexus 4 which was sold out in something like 30 minutes.

I will wait for the next batch then. Thanks.

Nexus 5 13 years ago

Are they already out of stock or there is just none available in my country (Canada)?