Hands-on: The Punkt MC03 might be the first privacy Android phone I’d actually try [Gallery]

Published: 1 week ago (January 9, 2026 at 03:45 PM EST)

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Source: 9to5Google

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Privacy often feels like an impossibility in the modern age of the internet, as your data is constantly tracked and shared by just about everything you do. That’s why privacy smartphones and privacy‑focused forks of Android keep popping up. With the new Punkt MC03, though, I just found the first pri…

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