If sd card and/or 3.5mm jack is what you're after Sony Xperia might just be your best choice. But if recent sony is anything to go by we won't even have that soon enough.

Oh well.. let's hope linux phones become mainstream by then.

Unfortunately I live in a place where Whatsapp is really ingrained in daily interactions.

I'm considering a bar phone, but with Android: https://www.dumbphones.org/?region=Europe&whatsapp=Yes&signal_app=Yes

My Nokia 110 4G has microsd, 3.5mm jack, a radio and a 12 days of battery life if that is all you require.

Those are becoming incredibly hard to find... https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2026&chk35mm=selected&idOS=2

Hard to say for sure. GrapheneOS confirmed on Xitter, but then seemed to immediately backtrack in the next sentence saying "wait for official news". I'm not sure what that means, is this communication not "official news"? Does only Motorola have "official news"?

https://nitter.jaydenha.uk/GrapheneOS/status/2102530770585669888

Right? For it's popularity I'm surprised nobody has

Is this the one that will support GrapheneOS?

No 3.5mm jack nor radio either :(

I'm actually interested but as of right now it's listed with no sd card support so I immediately lost interest.

All I want to know is if it has satellite communications and the battery life

Tf is that camera layout

you can probably gain temporary root using one of the recent linux vulnerabilities like ghostlock, then you might be able to hack around and find a way to unlock the bootloader

fucking manufacturers should be forced to unlock the bootloader the second they release the phone

still rocking 8 here

I feel like it's been stagnant from a development perspective for long enough that somebody should've been able to put together a FOSS clone of it by now.

Way back in the day, Samsung would even give the same name to completely different devices. "Galaxy S3 (International)" had a Qualcomm System-on-a-Chip and "Galaxy S3 (US)" was a whole bunch of different model numbers for each carrier, all with Samsung Exynos SoCs.

In the US at least, system updates are managed by the carriers. 🤦 A device wouldn't get updates made for another region because they are different builds for each region or carrier.

Verizon devices have never had unlockable bootloaders so they can't even get homebrew updates after Verizon stops supporting the device. Using open-source software and then locking it in should be illegal. 😅

Just installed it, it's not quite as polished as niagara but has some extra features and feels very nice to use.

The digital wellbeing feature is also really well done.

Lol yeah the first paragraph of the article even explains how the headline is wrong.

In case anyone isnt aware, the term "bricked" usually means that the device cannot boot up anymore due to a corrupted boot partition or something. This is pretty much unfixable, because without a working OS or recovery environment, theres no way to connect to it via the usb port. You'd have to manually flash the eMMC chip or whatever they use in phones nowadays.

I haven't heard of it!

I don't use the launcher's search functions, so I can't answer that for you. Sorry!

Is the search any good?

I liked Niagara's integration with Sesame, but Sesame is basically abandonware now. I've switched to Kvaesitso, but – whilst it can find a lot – its search still feels lacking.

FOSS Nova Launcher Please 😭

It's likely I could find a solution or a workaround to most of bare minimum categories if I worked at it for a while. Then I'd have a kind of usable, laggy phone with terrible battery life instead of the decent experience I currently have with LineageOS. Why would I do that?

ok and? my buddy literally has been daily driving one for more than a year and the camera on his pixel works fine, not a 3 though

im pretty sure he has whatsapp

i think nav is a bust will agree

and trust me im huffing the motorola copium but ive learned to be real skeptical

wont be even the 2nd time they dropped a promise this decade

sure, and for the iphone crowd i wouldnt recommend it

I'm the using desktop Linux for decades crowd, and it's not good enough to replace Android on my phone.

phone makes phone calls, camera does camera things

See my previous comment. The camera does not do camera things, even after I fixed the permissions problem for /dev/video* that produced the initial error message. It's a bit like the experience of trying to run Linux on a laptop (other than a Thinkpad) 20 years ago.

what exactly do you need?

Bare minimum:

• A camera. Doesn't need to be good, does need to take pictures that roughly convey reality.
• Signal. This is my main means of (tele)communicating with people important to me. There's Flare, but that needs to pair with a device running the official client (or maybe a fork).
• Whatsapp. I don't love it, but it's hard to avoid.
• A web browser and mail client PostmarketOS Nura has passible options there.
• A VOIP solution for a USA phone number that can do calls and SMS. I use Google Voice now because it's free; I might pay a small amount for an alternative.
• Turn by turn navigation for car and bicycle.

Some things might work on Waydroid, which pretty much runs LineageOS in a VM. It was fussy last I looked at it, and that suggests the obvious option of running LineageOS on hardware, which I do.

hardware keeps getting more hostile towards [GrapheneOS]

They recently announced a partnership with Motorola.