LynX Phone: PX9 Edition

The XTC Lynx Phone™ PX9 Standard Edition is a brand new, unlocked, Class A Certified for North America Google Pixel 9 that is fully re-coded and re-purposed for extremely private & digital secure communications via the XFoneOS™ Hybrid Operating System.  

Dimensions     152.8 x 72 x 8.5 mm (6.02 x 2.83 x 0.33 in)
Weight     198 g (6.98 oz)
Build     Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus 2), glass back (Gorilla Glass Victus 2), aluminum frame
SIM     Nano-SIM + eSIM
IP68 dust tight and water resistant (immersible up to 1.5m for 30 min)

Networks: GSM/CDMA/HSPA/EVDO/LTE. 

Base Handset OEM/Brand: Google Pixel 9 | Box Includes1 Cell Phone and 1 USB-C cable.

The PX9 Officially Supported App Stack. Customers may activate using the PX9's pre-loaded F-Droid or Aurora Store secure private app stores.

Basic Utilities:

Launcher: XFoneOSLauncher – A lightweight and iOS/Android user friendly launcher focused on speed and simplicity.
File Manager: Material Files – A simple and effective file manager.
Contacts: Simple Contacts Pro SE – A privacy-focused contacts manager.
Dialer: Simple Dialer – A straightforward dialer app including call blocking, favorites and contact sync. 
Vanadium: Vanadium is a privacy and security hardened variant of Chromium providing the WebView (used by other apps to render web content) and standard browser.

Communication:

Email: K-9 Mail – A secure and open-source email client.
Messaging: Signal – A highly secure messaging app (available via direct download from Signal's website for the latest version).
Web Browser: Privacy Browser or Fennec F-Droid – Privacy-focused web browsers.

Calendar: Etar – A clean and functional calendar app.
Signal: Signal is an encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls. The instant messaging function includes sending text, voice notes, images, videos, and other files. Communication may be one-to-one between users or may involve group messaging.

Multimedia

Music Player: Vinyl Music Player – A lightweight music player.
Gallery: Aves Libre – A modern and privacy-friendly photo and video gallery.
 
Productivity

Office Suite: LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader – An open-source office suite for viewing documents.
Nextcloud: Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. Nextcloud provides functionality similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with integrated office suites Collabora Online or OnlyOffice.
Linux Containers, Docker and Termux for programmers.
Zoom: Zoom is a video conferencing platform that can be used through a computer desktop or mobile app, and allows users to connect online for video conference meetings, webinars and live chat.
F-Droid: F-Droid is an open-source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source app
 
Security and Privacy

Password Manager: KeePassDX – A secure password manager.
Auditor: Hardware-based attestation / intrusion detection app for Android devices. It provides both local verification with another Android device via QR codes and optional scheduled server-based verification with support for alert emails. It uses hardware-backed keys and attestation support as the foundation and chains trust to the app for software checks.
 
Miscellaneous

Weather: Breezy Weather – A privacy-friendly weather app.
Maps: Organic Maps – An open-source offline maps app using OpenStreetMap data.

Further Reading