Picking the linux phones/handhelds I want in my personal choosing.
Another reason I wanted to get a linux phone, is because Google basically wants people to only download stuff on their play store for bogus "safety reasons" I rather use open source stuff than be forced to use an application store. I'll only get a Linux phone as an alt phone, since I'm not sure if a lot of Linux phones are ready to be main drivers, maybe I'm wrong on assuming this. Hmm. I am considering a Cosmo slide or a phone from postmarketOS. I have also been eyeballing the DragonBox Pyra as well sometimes, and I want to use Fdroid and waydroid with issue on a Linux phone as well. I'll still wait until I get a paying job to get the linux phone I want too.
Sep 30 ยท 2 weeks ago ยท ๐ norayr, HorikBrun
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๐ป darkghost ยท Sep 30 at 12:16:
I think it depends on what you're trying to do with a phone whether it can be a main driver. I am certain all Linux phones will make and receive phone calls. SMS is likely to work well as well. Playing local media shouldn't be a problem. My job requires email and chat that are only on iOS and Android so that wouldn't work. Something like Ubuntu touch has an app listing online that can help inform you.
๐ formerlybased ยท Sep 30 at 13:47:
i wish I could use a linux phone but p. much the only thing I use my phone for is banking related stuff so idk how realistic that is
๐ป darkghost ยท Sep 30 at 15:36:
I mean if there is a stable and supported browser I would think it would be good. But browser support might be the key there.
๐ฆ AFoxNamedHazel ยท Sep 30 at 16:22:
tbh at this rate i'm inclined to go back to a dumbphone, and say goodbye to both apple *and* google.
but we also need more viable alternatives.
using a pocof1 as daily driver here... get one of the supported phones second hand and give it i go..
๐ drh3xx ยท Sep 30 at 19:03:
@ghostdark calls is not a guaranteed. I was daily driving a OnePlus 6T with PostmarketOS but then the networks in the UK pulled 3G support and there is sod all support for 4G VoLTE calling yet on PMOS. There is work ongoing to support it at least on the chipset used by the OP6T but AFAIK it's not made its way into the stable branch yet.
Until I couldn't call anyone the phone/OS combo was great.
๐ป darkghost ยท Sep 30 at 22:17:
Oh dang that's not good. The US still has 3G but it won't last forever.
๐ pista ยท Oct 01 at 13:53:
@darkghost Depends on your region.
Our 3G went down two years ago. The fire alarm systems in our building were screaming for two days straight until someone got out to repair it. Apparently it was built to constantly report the building state via 3G, and when the towers vanished the embedded systems all went crazy.
๐ฆ bsj38381 [OP] ยท Oct 01 at 17:55:
I've also been thinking of checking out a Xiaomi phone too, but I'm not sure since they'll be more pricey thanks to the tariffs.
๐ฝ TKurtBond ยท Oct 09 at 20:47:
I'd like to have something other than iOS or Google, but too many of the apps I depend on aren't available on other phones,. Some of them, like banking and medical monitoring, I can't do without, unfortunately. And my time is taken up in other things, so I can't even help open source phone development. Sigh.
๐ norayr ยท Oct 10 at 00:57:
i don't use banking apps. i do bankinf via web.
if i had to alternative to app i would have one cheapest android phone for it, and i would keep it off most of hhe time and would not use it as personal device.
but i have discovered that some european banks have open api and even there are floss apps for them.
โ zaster banker sailfish storeman screenshot.
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