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You can also buy an old Nexus and put Ubuntu on it...
by bostand 10y ago
You can also buy an old Nexus and put Ubuntu on it...
- stonogo 10y agoNot if you want it to work. God knows I've tried every device on ubports.
- bostand 10y agoUbuntu Mobile may be a work in progress, but it still works far better than the ZeroPhone. It also look much better :)
- petecox 10y agoIn terms of adapting existing tech, several phones [1] did use a VideoCore 4, the most recent being the BCM23550, an SoC similar to the chip used in the Raspberry Pi 2. Using one of these 2013 era smartphones might be an alternative starting point in porting raspbian. You'd still have binary blobs for other components, naturally. (Yeah I understand the thrill here of building a working phone with your bare hands but if the idea were to crowdfund a smartphone product leveraging the rPI community and Broadcom then I'd start with a working base) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#Table_of_SoCs_adopting_VideoCore_SIP_blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#Table_of_SoCs_adopti...