If you get your phone from a carrier, you’re going to get the kind of phone they want. Android or Apple.
My phone was new last year and runs modern android. It has a headphone jack, SD card slot, and even FM radio. It also has enough battery to last 10 days of moderately heavy use. Niche phones exist if you look outside what’s sold by carriers.
See this is my issue with privacy ROMS is that they’re not always built alongside pro-consumer, right to repair friendly hardware. They’re often built for flagship phones, which has its advantages, but leaves the hardware experience locked down.
I really am so excited for functioning Linux phones. I LOVE GrapheneOS, but mobile Linux is being built around those ease of repair and tinkering phones more often .
what kind of annoys me is that linux phones didn’t start out with just making android virtualization/emulation as fast as physically possible. That way we could actually have genuinely functional linux phones now and the hardware wouldn’t matter much at all!
Like i don’t need every single piece of software to be reimplemented natively, that’s a great goal for the future but i just want a phone that doesn’t feel like a ticking bomb…
if valve manages to not only normalize linux gaming but also make usable linux phones, that might actually make up for them inventing lootboxes and leaving TF2 to languish.
one day i will afford all their devices, put them in a single room filled with copper pipes, and call it my steampunk shrine. After that of course comes the surgical installation of a red valve on the back of my head.
A Ulefone Armor 34 pro. It’s a ridiculous 2lb brick with nightvision, a fucking projector, and 25,500mAh of battery.
But there are a LOT of phones that check off a few less of those those boxes. Reasonable phones with only twice as much battery as any Samsung. GSMArena has a filterable search function, just filter for phones that work with the bands your country/carrier uses. No phone is compatible with all countries networks!
I’m rocking a phone from Sony right now, after a decade with Samsung Galaxy devices. I bought it specifically for the microSD card and for a headphone jack.
If you get your phone from a carrier, you’re going to get the kind of phone they want. Android or Apple.
My phone was new last year and runs modern android. It has a headphone jack, SD card slot, and even FM radio. It also has enough battery to last 10 days of moderately heavy use. Niche phones exist if you look outside what’s sold by carriers.
See this is my issue with privacy ROMS is that they’re not always built alongside pro-consumer, right to repair friendly hardware. They’re often built for flagship phones, which has its advantages, but leaves the hardware experience locked down.
I really am so excited for functioning Linux phones. I LOVE GrapheneOS, but mobile Linux is being built around those ease of repair and tinkering phones more often .
what kind of annoys me is that linux phones didn’t start out with just making android virtualization/emulation as fast as physically possible. That way we could actually have genuinely functional linux phones now and the hardware wouldn’t matter much at all!
Like i don’t need every single piece of software to be reimplemented natively, that’s a great goal for the future but i just want a phone that doesn’t feel like a ticking bomb…
Genuinely. I don’t understand how this wasn’t a thing already. But Valve working on Lepton hopefully accomplishes this goal!
if valve manages to not only normalize linux gaming but also make usable linux phones, that might actually make up for them inventing lootboxes and leaving TF2 to languish.
one day i will afford all their devices, put them in a single room filled with copper pipes, and call it my steampunk shrine. After that of course comes the surgical installation of a red valve on the back of my head.
What phone do you have? I’m still holding onto an old S20 just because of the SD card slot but it’s battery is fading.
A Ulefone Armor 34 pro. It’s a ridiculous 2lb brick with nightvision, a fucking projector, and 25,500mAh of battery.
But there are a LOT of phones that check off a few less of those those boxes. Reasonable phones with only twice as much battery as any Samsung. GSMArena has a filterable search function, just filter for phones that work with the bands your country/carrier uses. No phone is compatible with all countries networks!
I’m rocking a phone from Sony right now, after a decade with Samsung Galaxy devices. I bought it specifically for the microSD card and for a headphone jack.