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> No you can't. I'm not aware of any commercial Android phone that doesn't need binary firmware blobs running in kernel space to work, i.e. for display drivers,
by Brakenshire 13y ago
> No you can't. I'm not aware of any commercial Android phone that doesn't need binary firmware blobs running in kernel space to work, i.e. for display drivers, WiFi, the radio stack etc.
Using an open source operating system is a step towards a fully transparent phone, even if it doesn't solve all the problems at once. It opens a market space for a company to release a phone with open-source drivers. Consumers need to force companies step-by-step towards the solutions we want, not just expect them to be delivered in a gift-wrapped package.
- kamjam 13y agoSo do we believe the new Firefox OS will be the way forward, as a good alternative open source OS? I haven't looked into it much yet, and the hardware of the ZTE is severely underpowered at the moment for my needs, but if this is truly open then I can see myself getting on board, even flashing an Android device with it (if the hardware allows). Didn't know about F-Droid, that's the kind of marketplace I think that is the best of both worlds, open source but verified by community members.