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The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
Benefits:
- Hardware freedom.
- Perfect operating-system competition.
- Full utilization of specs.
- Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years.
- Less e-waste.
Linux Mobile Distros:
- Ubuntu Touch
- Sailfish
- FuriOS
- Postmarket OS
- Mobian
- Pure OS
- Plasma Mobile
- LuneOS
- openSUSE Mobile
- Nemomobile
- Droidian
- Mobile NixOS
- ExpidusOS
- Maemo Leste
- Manjaro Arm
- Tizen
- WebOS
Linux Mobile Hardware:
- Fairphone 5
- Volla Phone
- PinePhone
- FLX1
- Librem 5
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I've already decided my next phone will run either Ubuntu Touch or Postmarket. I'm never going back to IOS and I'm totally done with Android. I hope there'll be even more competitors in the future to drive innovation :)
Another Linux phone is tempting, but I am probably just never going to buy a new phone again. Just get something for free that someone else is getting rid of, or a very cheap second hand phone.
Tbh at this point I don't even really want a phone, but I need a phone number for this stupid society we live in. Otherwise I would be quite happy with a pi (zero?) sellotaped to the back of a USB powered display panel and powered by a few USB powerbanks taped together and a bluetooth keyboard. Briefcase pi with a month worth of power through multiple battery packs would be amusing.
I kinda miss the days of the old PDAs and palmtops. A Pi phone seems like a good idea until you realise it basically has to be the size of a netbook. Might as well get an old netbook and stick Puppy Linux or whatever on it.
Pi zero can be smaller, similar specs to a pinephone but with less RAM. I think the GPU is better too. Small but chunky tablet is probably about the best you could get by mounting everything to the back of a display.