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What alternatives do we have? Don't mean this as a dismissal, genuinely want to know more about the state of open source hardware.
by emptyparadise 4y ago
What alternatives do we have? Don't mean this as a dismissal, genuinely want to know more about the state of open source hardware.
- mpol 4y agoLibrem 5 of course. The Gigaset phones might be interesting. Built in Germany, rebranded by Volla among others. Sony Xperia and Fairphone are far away from vanilla Linux I think (someone may correct me).
- WhyNotHugo 4y ago> Sony Xperia Tried one with JollaOS. GPS doesn't work, and headphones didn't work. No idea about the stock experience tho. > Fairphone It's a pretty Google-centric Android experience. You can't even get past setup without signing up with Google.
- selfhoster11 4y agoFairphone and Librem are alternatives to Pine64 hardware in the same way that a Lamborghini may be an alternative to a Toyota Yaris. They aren't even remotely in the same pricing band.
- jraph 4y agoThey are still alternatives… with different pros and cons, the price being one of them. But the Fairphone is not an alternative to the Librem 5 and the PinePhone, and those are not alternatives to the Fairphone. They target different things.
- WhyNotHugo 4y agoNot any really. Which is why this situation sucks the most.
- georgeoliver 4y agoIt's not necessarily open source hardware, but there's the option of getting a used or new old stock phone that works with a distro like postmarketOS, or /e/ phone, etc.