Is Brax Technologies Building the Ultimate Privacy Ecosystem?

This is the Andres Segovia Show. Hey everyone, it's Andres, and I'm coming at you with another video on Brax Technologies. Look on your screen there, that's not a product that you've probably seen before, and that's because this is one of three new products that were announced at the Brax Roadmap Event 2026. Technically, these things are for 2027, but some waitlists, reservation lists, and such will open later this year, and you can get on the waitlist. The first thing that was announced at today's event was called Brax Wink. Today being September 9th, by the way, as I record this. So Brax Wink is called the most private mobile phone we've ever made. Open source, modular, and completely off the grid. Yes, I did join the waitlist on this thing. This thing screams BlackBerry. I've been saying for a while that we need a product like this back. You guys know I covered Eclipse Communicator. This is a no-brainer to me, but the modularity they're putting in here, and there's different approaches to how they're doing privacy. You have to watch the event. The link will be in the description down below wherever you're watching this, and if you're watching or listening to the podcast version, check out the show notes available at theandressegovia.com where I'll be leaving a link to the premiere of the event along with links to everything I'm going to show you today. So with Brax Wink, based on what they showed, the idea is that, oh my goodness, look at that thing, that yes, it is a private, compact, modular, open source, off the grid. It's a physical keyboard. I'm really curious to see how they're going to do that, and this part looks modular, which means probably we can replace the keyboard, maybe a different language. That'd be interesting. So we get a 4-inch OLED display, and a physical kill switch. Where else have you seen this? Yes, unplugged. There were one of the few that actually did this, and this is supposed to be coming, I think, for the open slate tablet as well. So a high-resolution camera that, of course, waits to be seen. This looks like an easy pull for a physical sim and global 5G connectivity, but if I understood correctly during the announcement, I believe that it's not one that's meant to dial out through phone lines, but it's all run through data. I could be wrong. So we've got a hardened OS, verified don't trust the most open-sourced Android phone. Yes. Kernel, firmware, drivers, OS, and apps. What else? Adapts to your use ease, your use case. Let's see. Omni mode. Here we go. The fully de-googled Android experience, install your favorite apps, no ads, no trackers, no device ID, no profiling. The omni mode, is that what they call it? And then there's zero mode. So what's zero mode? Designed for secure communication, end-to-end encrypted comms, offline essential apps, advanced security features. Let's see. Fail the temp wipe, auto wipe, wipe on reboot. Oh, that's so cool. I think, yeah, no cellular modem equals no carrier identity. That's what I'm talking about. So that was announced. That's really wild. So it doesn't run through the cellular. It supports voice over IP calls and text. So that's going to be really fascinating to see how all this develops. This is supposed to be truly private. And in this case, a swappable because modular. So let's see. Remove the screws from the back. You can add an extra battery to extend your battery life. And then you just get the foreign screen, right? Let's see. You can replace it or use it without an extension. So you could just have the screen. So more features, eSIM, dual SIM profiles, 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Look, if they can do it, why can't you? Big dogs, micro SD card, Bluetooth 5.3, dual speaker. That'd be interesting. Display out, Wi-Fi 6, mainline support. So yes, this is the most fascinating product that was announced today. Heck yeah, I'm on the wait list. This is something that I can totally see myself using because I I've been saying for the longest time, I did an episode called Blackberry, We Need You. That was years ago. So that's why I champion products from small companies that are trying to fill a need. That's why there's Unplugged, there's Brax, there's others down the pipeline, something that are trying to do something, but I will call out those that are not doing it right. All right, so let's go to the other two products that were also announced. So there's the Brax Wink, which has joined the wait list. The Brax 3 is available for purchase at $339. This is the second iteration of the Brax 3. So I might end up getting one. No promises yet because I am curious to compare it to the first generation version. The OpenSlate, it's still in pre-order, but here are the other two. You can join the wait list for the Pulse Human 00 or Wallop. Let me show you the Pulse Human 00 and then end it with Wallop. Okay, so let's go to this one. Let's open the tab. So Pulse Human 00, a four-inch device carrying around 50 tops of AI compute, running models entirely on the device, de-googled Android, OLED display, high-resolution camera, and full cellular and 5G support. That is wild. All those things into what is like a four-inch product. So the idea is that you're using AI locally. Now, for those of you that follow me on the social, particularly on X and Parler, I was covering this live. So I was taking screenshots of the presentation. You guys can see some of the stuff that I put up there because some of these pictures are not I see here. So you guys can definitely check it out. X Twitter is underscore AndroSegovia on Parler at the AndroSegovia, okay? So this is interesting. An AI that is just limited to this and only kept here locally and just it's private. So that's pretty cool. But now let's finish this off with WallUp because WallUp, when it looks like a tablet, it was presented as a tablet, but here's what it is. It's actually just more of a platform. So the modular wall display for your home, open-source Android, native home assistant, and every bit of processing done on the panel itself. Add speakers, microphones, cameras, or sensors as your setup grows instead of replacing the panel. And I think that's just absolutely brilliant. We needed something like this. Now, this particular picture here, it does show, it looks to the left that there's a speaker type and over here to the right also speaker type. This whole thing in the center is supposed to be a touchscreen panel and other things. So they did, again, I'm going to leave the link to the presentation that Rob Braxman did in the description down below, wherever you're watching this or the podcast, the show notes, the company's episode at the AndroSegovia.com because this is exciting. This is what we needed to see from those that are really interested in expanding their portfolio instead of just doing another phone. I know light phones out there, it exists. I haven't tried it out myself and people have asked me if I will cover the next upcoming product, which is a flip phone. I think it's E-Ink flip phone, de-Googled. That's brilliant because they already got those on pre-order. So there is a market for this. And especially now that you have a folding iPhone that's built by Samsung or most components are Samsung and it starts at $2,000 and there's no privacy to any of that. Look, I am interested in the folding iPhone, but the fact of the matter is for those of us that have been looking for a privacy focused device, we usually been pigeonheld to basically a candy bar black slate with no personality. And we want personality, we want color. And what Brax has been able to achieve, and let me go back to their listing of all their products, is they were able to get a brand identity right out of the box. And I said this in one of my first videos with respects to the Brax 3, because as soon as they stuck with the translucent back, they created a brand of their style and it's carrying over to the open slate. It's carrying over to the Brax Wink and it's carrying over to their plans for the post-human and the wallop. I love what they're doing. They have an identity, they honed it in, and there's something that's beautiful to that minimalism because it really sticks to their privacy and security and in a way, stealthy approach to things. And modularity, I absolutely love it. So this is definitely going to be more square than anything else. Things that are out there, especially when you're going to be modular, it's just so much simpler to make rectangle or square parts when you're putting things together or taking them apart. But the point is that they're keeping their identity throughout and I'm excited to see where it goes from here for the Brax team. So bravo Brax team, kudos to you. I'd like to see where this goes and I'm definitely interested in that Brax Wink and I might be interested in that AI thing, but I definitely, most of all, I'm interested in the wallop because that's something that I have wondered about. Will there ever be anything in the market for it? And like I said, you're seeing a need, you're filling a need, you're putting money where your mouth is, you guys are developing this, and you guys can go check it out for yourself out in the video. There's even talks about Linux running on some of this stuff. So it's not just Android. So it's really cool stuff. But anyway, I'll be keeping an eye on this. Go follow the socials for the Brax team. I'll be leaving those links in the description down below. Those in audio already know this, the drill that's shown us a couple of episodes at theinterestglobal.com. But anyway, what do you guys think? Are you guys excited about this? Because I sure as hell am. And 2027 is going to be awesome because these are not the only products coming out. This is just from Brax, but there's other companies that have been in the works that are going to be launching their products next year. And I'm excited to see those things finally come to fruition. Anyway, that's where I'll leave it. Thank you so much for watching this episode. Remember to like, share, subscribe to stay in the know. Follow me across the socials at TheUnderSegovia. I'll see you in the next one.