Low budget alternative: The Pinephone by Pine64, also with 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores. https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
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Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs
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#22Low budget alternative: The Pinephone by Pine64, also with 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores. https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
I'm extremely excited for the Pinephone and intend to order one as soon as it becomes available. I may resurrect Hellaphone on it (edit: oops fix link https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home ) or at the very least start building my own library of no-bullshit phone tools, free from modern phone crap.
The link is dead (404), do you have another one?
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#23Ever since I saw the project come out, I've been thinking about what would be required for me to switch from Android. Right now I think that my hard requirements are: - Firefox (pretty sure they have it) - Signal (I use it all the time) I don't know if some kind of TOTP store (think Google Authenticator or andOTP) is a hard requirement or a soft one, but it would surely be useful. I can live without my banking app (t…
Without a browser, it kind of ceases to be a smartphone. It's just a flipphone. So I don't see how that is really something you need to note.
For me it's Google Maps. There is just no comparison. I don't want to imagine trying to drive around finding places without it. It's not just the navigation and traffic, it's the business hours lookup feature and all that.
I hadn't thought about TOTP stores (Authy), but that's certainly way up there. Unless they can read a NFC yubikey.
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#24I've been looking for a "FOSS" phone that is based purely on AOSP. I don't want a custom ROM, Play Store, cloud, or to have to create any accounts or sign into anything. I just want a simple Android phone with decent specs that I can install APKs on. Does this exist at all? Or do I have to buy/pay for a "full" Android phone and reflash it?
No. As far as I know, there are always proprietary blobs.
That said, he Fair Phone 2 officially supports degooglized Android Pie (Lineage).
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#25So for me, this is roughly what I want in a phone. But the thing is, I bought a phone over two years ago, with better specs for $100 less. That same phone today is priced at $200-$300.
The way I see it the real value add for this phone is the software, and this whole mainline Linux, FOSS, run whatever you want approach is very attractive to me.
But is it worth $700? Is it worth $700 when my current phone is in great condition and most likely will be usable for several more years?
I feel bad, because I do want to support this kind of thing, I'm just not sure that buying __this__ phone is the right decision for me.
Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs
#26So for me, this is roughly what I want in a phone. But the thing is, I bought a phone over two years ago, with better specs for $100 less. That same phone today is priced at $200-$300. The way I see it the real value add for this phone is the software, and this whole mainline Linux, FOSS, run whatever you want approach is very attractive to me. But is it worth $700? Is it worth $700 when my current phone is in great…
I think it's the best decision for future you.
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#27So for me, this is roughly what I want in a phone. But the thing is, I bought a phone over two years ago, with better specs for $100 less. That same phone today is priced at $200-$300. The way I see it the real value add for this phone is the software, and this whole mainline Linux, FOSS, run whatever you want approach is very attractive to me. But is it worth $700? Is it worth $700 when my current phone is in great…
From an environmental perspective, it makes sense to keep your current phone as long as possible.
I'd love to get rid of this thing full of proprietary stuff though.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm extremely excited for the Pinephone and intend to order one as soon as it becomes available. I may resurrect Hellaphone on it (edit: oops fix link https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home ) or at the very least start building my own library of no-bullshit phone tools, free from modern phone crap.
The link is dead (404), do you have another one?
Sorry, I was typing it from memory and forgot that the repo was named "inferno" not "hellaphone". Fixed.
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#29Hmmm, almost exactly half the specs of OnePlus 3, way more expensive than OnePlus 3 when it came out 3 years ago. How this is better than installing lineage Os on oneplus 3? -- https://download.lineageos.org/oneplus3 I understand anyone who wants privacy need to pay extra, but is it really justifiable to pay this much for that?
You aren't buying a phone, you are buying an Experience.
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#30I've been looking for a "FOSS" phone that is based purely on AOSP. I don't want a custom ROM, Play Store, cloud, or to have to create any accounts or sign into anything. I just want a simple Android phone with decent specs that I can install APKs on. Does this exist at all? Or do I have to buy/pay for a "full" Android phone and reflash it?
You could buy a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it.
https://grapheneos.org/#device-support