Google is making it harder to build custom ROMs for Pixel phones
(www.androidauthority.com)
sabreW4K3
AndroidI am hoping sooo much that those LinuxPhone projects get to basic call,network and photo functionality before Google completely locks down the ecosystem. GrapheneOS and LineageOS have served me well up to now but it looks like the noose is getting too tight.
Hell, my wife is even asking if she can or should get a 5G 'flip phone' as she's heard how bad it might get soon.
I'm holding out that more manufacturers will see the demand for Androidless phones and will either partner with some OS like Motorola + GOS or maybe sell them with bootloader unlocked to install whichever OS is preferred.
I just hope someone fights google. They destroy everything I grew up loving.
Sailfish OS does have that functionality already and is not Android based but it does get a lot of hate for having some closed source UI components. So I guess it is a matter of requirements and priorities
Yep, I'll definitely be getting a Fairphone 6 next: https://catcrafts.net/posts
I made the mistake to trust Fairphone when they released the Fairphone 3. They gave a shit about the Linux kernel and did not give you access to the source. It took heavy customer protest until they eventually complied to the GPL.
you can get some phones with lineage and /e/os preinstalled. Look at the fairphone or the swiftphone. A 5G flip phone is coming from commodore. Its called the Callback.
Ok it's cool and all but I am NOT paying fucking $400 for a flip dumb phone, that's also entirely plastic.
they did lower the price and preorders get another 100$ of i think so you can get ist for 200$ i think.
