The Simple Phone should have rung alarm bells to Simple Mobile Tools' future
Simple Mobile Tools are a set of open-source "shareware" apps. Examples of applications included in the suite include "Simple Gallery", "Simple Calendar" and "Simple Contacts". While the applications are open-source, the developer made money through proprietary app stores versions. From the Play Store, the Gallery is only free for 14 days, before you are required to buy a license. F-Droid and GitHub were options for acquiring fully-free binaries, but not often used by regular users.
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