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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

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172 points fsflover | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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ethagnawl ◴[28 Aug 25 16:25 UTC] No.45054074[source]▶
This is a bummer. If there was ever a time this sort of device was needed, it's now / in the near future when Google (probably) starts requiring all Android apps to be signed by approved developers and further locks down the Android platform.

I kind of regret not buying one of these instead of a Pixel 7 but, unfortunately, I'm pretty tethered to the Android ecosystem at the moment.

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1. jraph ◴[28 Aug 25 18:43 UTC] No.45055533[source]▶
I'm monitoring support for PostmarketOS on Fairphone models, with a mainline Linux kernel. They actually have someone working on upstreaming stuff to mainline, which is quite nice.

The FP6 doesn't seem there yet [1], but the FP5 is close! [2]

The FP5 is a comfortable device. With call support completely figured out, Mobile Linux would probably be enjoyable on it.

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairp...

[2] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp...