I went ahead and put Replicant on my G1. I haven't been able to use my G1 for awhile since I moved off of T-Mobile (but I'll be going back to them next year). I honestly can say that most operations seem to be perfectly fine. I'd have to revisit the limitations, but because I wasn't trying to use cell networks anyways, I wasn't able to test things like call functions or mobile networks.

I know there are limitations, and I know there are still areas of firmware that have no free options yet. But it's the closest thing we have to a full free Android. From my perspective, the one thing that stands in the way of freedom are the device manufacturers -- they use hardware that refuses to publish specs for writing firmware and drivers.

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