On 8/8/20 2:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Has anyone looked at purchasing a pinephone from pine64.org, or considered > doing so?
As mentioned, pinephone is not quite there yet. I do like Pine's concept of isolating the OS from the cellular modem hardware. Its for the modem and related parts that you get all the proprietary binary driver blobs. Another one to keep an eye on is the Libre 5 from Purism: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/ https://puri.sm/products/ This one is a bit farther along, and it ain't cheap. The Libre 5 USA version, where components are made/assembled in the USA (one part from Germany I think), makes the iPhone 11 Pro Max price look cheap. Another alternative is to strip Android off your favorite cellphone (with some hardware version limitations), and load a non-Google Android fork such as: LineageOS https://lineageos.org/ Replicant https://replicant.us/ -Ed
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