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Alternative smart phones in the USA? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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I've been looking into potentially switching to an alternative smart phone, something like the Jolla phone with sailfish OS, the fairphone, etc. I think something like that would be excellent for what I want my smart phone to do, and I'm tired of the one I have. However from what I've read online, they don't really seem to work well in the USA. I am on T mobile which seems to work better than other providers, but I was wondering if any of the fine people on Lemmy have actual experience they can share.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago*

Now that Android is holding back open source Android releases, I want to switch to some kind of Linux phone. It's a shame that there are no Linux phones with a mainline kernel that are fully functional and not extremely slow (looking at you, Pinephone and Librem 5), though.

And Halium is just a stopgap, since it essentially uses an Android kernel and drivers, meaning the kernel will eventually be EOL after the long term support for that version runs out.

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