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Comment by Fnoord

2 hours ago

There is probably one other person on planet Earth who also just feels burnt out on these type of projects (you can just call it cyberdeck).

Meanwhile, from [1]

> 2,777 backers pledged CA$ 1,264,707 to help bring this project to life.

> UPDATE: The project got fully funded within 5 minutes! Can’t believe the support—thank you so much!

ClockworkPi's DevTerm, uConsole, GameShell are constantly sold out [2]. Hackberry Pi, constantly sold out.

Jolla's strength is SailfishOS which is a successor of Maemo/MeeGo. It is a Linux-based solution with a good, gesture-based UI with Android emulation.

GrapheneOS has nothing to do with any of these projects. It is software-only, for Google Pixel devices, and it has a specific strength (security) no other OS/HW combo comes close to.

The strength of a modular smartphone is, it is repairable and you can physically alter its features without changing form factor, like Framework. For smartphones, I believe a Fairphone is very modular, and smartwatches Pixel Watch 4 (but it only runs WearOS).

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-open...

[2] https://www.clockworkpi.com