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Maybe the right starting point is to build a fully open USB cellular modem, rather than a fully open phone. You serve the same values and get to focus on the ha
by awinter-py 7y ago
Maybe the right starting point is to build a fully open USB cellular modem, rather than a fully open phone. You serve the same values and get to focus on the hardest part of the problem.
- Tepix 7y agoIt's probably an unsolvable problem without huge funding. Perhaps the better approach is to treat the cellular modem as part of the untrusted network.
- letstrynvm 7y agoThat's not really solveable. Their focus has been okay... the foss os stack, the gpu driver the apps... even if they fail other projects can pick these up. It's just very difficult to get to the point you have enough pieces in good shape for a minimal usable set of functionality in 2019. A month or so ago on a devkit, the browser was crashy and juddery scrolling, not janky but going away to think on things for a bit, failing to update any more etc. They're kind of responsible for all the pieces in the stack, unlike a normal phone company who get OOT kernel and drivers and gpu pieces handed to them all good by the soc vendor. if they can hold out and keep their nerve, it shows signs it will get there. But maybe in 2-5 years for the software imho.