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Originally Posted by Frogm4n
"Phones home" is a very large and nebulous thing. People would consider it doing simple "is the internet working?" checks phoning home. Checking for firmware updates would be phoning home. Neither has anything to do with surveillance, just common and simple things modern electronics do.
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Yeah "phoning home" is a vague and nebulous term. I would consider any connection between my device and the internet a form of phoning home. If my WiFi is switched off and my device is unregistered I would fully expect my device to remain offline and not connect to anything at any time for any reason.
It was suggested in another thread that a device with a spoof registration will be unregistered again by amazon when it "phones home", I'm unsure as to the veracity of that claim or, if true, under what circumstances or conditions the " phoning home" would occur.
Either way, for the prices amazon are charging, I'd expect to receive a fully functioning device that is usable with or without registration or connecting to the mothership. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case as the previous commenter confirmed regarding the vocabulary builder. Hoping anyone with further information or clarification can chime in