So, for a Statesian that is trying to degoogle, what’s the best path? Lots of restrictions on phones we can get, sadly.
Fairphone seems like the best option at the moment. It uses e/os which is Android based, and you can run most of the apps on it. https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6
Yea, might have to. My phone is aging and doesn’t support LineageOS, sadly.
I’m still on Pixel 5 with LineageOS, but the battery is starting to go. Sadly, can’t get Fairphone in Canada yet. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like any of the Linux based phones are quite ready to be a daily driver either.
Fairphone in Canada: https://lemmy.ca/post/50071607
You can’t get it from their official store though last I looked.
That’s correct. So warranty and such is difficult. But if you need one, it seems it’s available and it seems to work on Freedom. A friend is running an FP5 on Fido.
I figure I’ll hold out and see if it becomes officially available. My phone still works fine for the most part, and if battery holds out there’s nothing too wrong with it really.
I know, I was just looking into the state of linux phones last night. I’d love a genuine alternative, but I need my phone for work for things like 2FA, Teams, etc that I just can’t use on linux phones yet it seems.
Yup, the app ecosystem is just not quite there yet, and google app store is still the only place for some apps you can’t do without.
Still holding hope that it will get there! Huge respect to the devs for this undertaking.
Indeed, having full blown Linux on the phone would honestly be the ideal option. I’m honestly surprised that nobody tried building hardware around this idea. You could have a single device that acts like a phone, but then you could make it dockable and the dock could add more ram and a better GPU, so then you could use it like a desktop. So, you’d just carry a single device around with you all the time and use it in different modes as needed. This would also avoid the need for using a lot of online services, like the calendar, which sync data across devices. You’d just always have all your data in one place.
Let Google know what you think about this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITkdzMxv81rJDEGGjO-UIDDY28Rz_GEVA/viewform
