Can you run Linux on your phone? What are the technical obstacles to be overcome, which projects are working on them and with what funding?

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    What are the technical obstacles to be overcome,

    Its not a technical obstacle preventing me from having one.

    The companies that make the ones that do exist won’t offer them for sale on my continent.

    • uuj8za@piefed.social
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      jolla-devices.com seems to ship to a ton of places. I just got a Sony Xperia with SailfishOS. Seems pretty decent so far. I’m in the US with Mint Mobile.

      With a big caveat that it’s not fully FLOSS. But it is a Linux phone.

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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        Pinephone and even Pinephone Pro are incredibly outdated as of today. They might work for just messing around with, but for a daily use phone, that’s not going to work.

      • Denys Nykula@piefed.social
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        Pine64 doesn’t ship to some countries, specifically neither Ukraine nor Russia. Occationally I see ads from someone buying one when in EU and then selling it here at multiple times the original price.

    • erebion@news.erebion.eu
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      Then get an “Android phone” with decent mainline kernel support. Pixel 3a has decent support, several SDM845 phones have decent support, some others…