Hello list, I have a question: of the phone models that are currently supported by Replicant, which would be the best one to get? My budget is high enough to where device cost is not a factor. I have a comrade to whom I'm trying to teach the moral principles of Free Software as outlined so wonderfully by the FSF, with the emphasis on the Four Freedoms, and our current frontier is the phone. The comrade in question is an absolutely wonderful person, but she is very very non-technical: her skills and interests in life are elsewhere. Hence her relation to technology will always be as an end user and nothing more. But I believe that the fundamental moral principles outlined by the FSF should apply to everyone, not just us computer science geeks, and it is vitally important to bring Free Software to the non-technical end users.
Of course the free-est phone ever made is Neo Freerunner by Openmoko, and I have one - but remember that here I'm trying to reach out to a very non-technical end user. Whether the motherboard inside that Neo case is a GTA02 or a GTA04, my target audience will *not* like that case and that small (in comparison to the typical mass-produced smartphones) resistive touchscreen - again, compare with the typical mass-produced devices of today with large capacitive touchscreens, and some with slide-out keyboards too. So with the GTA02 and GTA04 not being viable options, we are left with the repertoire of several mass-produced smartphones which are currently supported by Replicant, and I'm probing the wisdom of this mailing list to help me decide which of those I should buy on ebay. Obviously all of these devices are plagued by limited hardware support because of undocumented hw, proprietary firmwares, etc. Which model suffers the least from these problems? I'm looking specifically to run Replicant 4.0, not any of the older versions - I need to make the best possible impression on my target audience. Of the devices currently supported by this Replicant version, which would give the best user experience to an uninitiated and totally non-technical end user? Which would draw the least number of disappointed curses from such a user? TIA for any insight, SF _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
