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Furilabs Linux Phone

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jchw ◴[] No.41839797[source]
Apparently it is based on Halium, so it's probably not going to run mainline Linux any time soon. On the other hand, I'm less happy with Android than I pretty much ever have been, so having some more options outside of relatively unusable Linux phones and being stuck with modified Android firmware certainly does not hurt.

I am definitely interested, especially if the team working on it is as active as it seems they are. Definitely one of the biggest bummers with PinePhone and PinePhone Pro was realizing that the community was largely on its own; that could work well, but in practice progress has been slow and painful and I stopped paying attention.

I would really like to see more projects doing cellular Linux devices in general. It doesn't need to be a candybar smartphone, if someone can jam a cellular modem into a MicroPC I'm sold at any price I can afford.

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silverliver ◴[] No.41856684[source]
Is there any phone that runs mainline Linux/upstream Debian, and is available to buy right now?

I'm sick of big companies who removed the word Consent from their dictionaries. I want something I can own and trust again. Being able to run android apps would be great, but given how closed source Android has become, I doubt that apps run on an open system would be reliable.

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1. seba_dos1 ◴[] No.41858061[source]
100% mainline - not really yet, but from those that are close to mainline and on which you can run Mobian (which is upstream Debian with a small repo overlay for stuff not ready to go into Debian proper yet) and that you can buy new right now are Librem 5, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro.

If second market also counts then there are a few more options available - mostly former Android phones where hardware support is spotty though, so do your research first. That said, everyone's needs are different and what's there can already fulfill the needs of plenty of people, so it's a matter of figuring out whether you in particular are in this group yet or not.

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2. silverliver ◴[] No.41867431[source]
Thank you for this helpful explanation! Hopefully one of these three will be will be good enough for my needs.