Comment by MrDresden
10 days ago
There sadly isn't a single viable option for a Linux mobile phone out there.
- Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business ethics.
- Pine64 has equally bad hardware but reasonable prices. I don't like the Hong-Kong connection though. Not sure how the security patching environment is in practice.
The only option on the table as I see it is buying from the devil and installing GrapheneOS.
> Purism runs ancient hardware
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355
> questionable business ethics
They retrospectively changed their return policy in order to not get bankrupt. AFAIK everything is find now. I'm a happy owner of Librem 5 btw.
https://postmarketos.org/
The latest phone from https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices was released in 2021.
It won't be bleeding edge but the same reason people buy laptops with Core2.
There is also jolla / sailfishos built by ex Nokia engineers. The Russians forked it and are useing it in government / industry.
FuriLabs has shipped a usable device for going on two hardware releases now.
Yes, it currently builds on top of Hallium. Anyone who thinks this should be a sticking point has their head in the sand; the device and effort is how you get a usable ecosystem rolling.