Le mardi 24 septembre 2013 à 16:52 -0700, [email protected] a écrit : > It shows what works on what phones so you can decide for yourself what > seems like the best option. With the newest release of Replicant, it > looks like the Galaxy S2 will be your best bet. If you don't care about > having a camera, I would probably go with the Galaxy S3.
Galaxy S3 camera is already ready, works and will be part of the next release (soon enough). I also added Galaxy Note (1st generation) support. So basically, the best devices are Galaxy S2, S3 and Note (all are supported the same but I'd say Note is a little slower). > Peter Stevenson > > > On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 09:20 +0000, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: > > 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 -- Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer Replicant is a fully free Android distribution Website: http://www.replicant.us Wiki/Tracker: http://redmine.replicant.us _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
