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[–] 57 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I am hoping sooo much that those LinuxPhone projects get to basic call,network and photo functionality before Google completely locks down the ecosystem. GrapheneOS and LineageOS have served me well up to now but it looks like the noose is getting too tight.

Hell, my wife is even asking if she can or should get a 5G 'flip phone' as she's heard how bad it might get soon.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, I'll definitely be getting a Fairphone 6 next: https://catcrafts.net/posts

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    I made the mistake to trust Fairphone when they released the Fairphone 3. They gave a shit about the Linux kernel and did not give you access to the source. It took heavy customer protest until they eventually complied to the GPL.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'm holding out that more manufacturers will see the demand for Androidless phones and will either partner with some OS like Motorola + GOS or maybe sell them with bootloader unlocked to install whichever OS is preferred.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You think Nothingphone might be next candidate for GOS? Their concept phone shipped without an OS at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That video that they showed about that phone was 100% satire. Not to mention Nothing unfortunately is looking more and more like an Apple wannabe. Not trusting that company anymore after that crap.πŸ˜’

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    For real? That concept phone really checked a lot of boxes for me haha

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah...it really did. Thats the phone that you, myself and so many want and they really dont realize how big of a customer base they would get if they put that plan into action.

    If the phone was real, i was so ready to be a customer of theirs. Ive been waiting for them to "make" a resonable size phone and not the phablets they have. Instead, they came out with the shitty Nothing 4b for their India market, which showed how bad in quality they've gotten. I highly dought after the phone 3 if theyll make good phones again. In the US market, only phone you can get of thiers is the Phone 3 and 4a pro (good luck trying to find the others) πŸ˜…

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago*

    Sailfish OS does have that functionality already and is not Android based but it does get a lot of hate for having some closed source UI components. So I guess it is a matter of requirements and priorities

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