That’s sad, I want a phone that runs real Linux but the options I found are either outdated hardware or alpha quality.
Yup, same, I would love to switch to a Linux/FOSS phone, but it's all crap specs. Like this librem 5 phone. 3GB RAM and 32GB storage‽ LMAO what year is it, 2014‽
For now I'm pretty much just stuck on Pixel, one of the few remaining brands that reliably (surprisingly) let you unlock the BL. It's even worse now since I've had a taste of the foldy phone and I don't think I want to go back and that'll probably take 15 years before ever coming to a Linux/FOSS phone, considering where they're at now.
They've missed the boat entirely for me and I'm doubtful they'll ever catch up :/
This! Exactly this! But I guess all the off the shelf parts need proprietary driver which only are available for android. No parts manufacturers will do the extra work to make them work for Linux. Only of explicit ordered that way, but then it is custom and expensive. I fear, not many will buy an expensive midrange phone, with all the trade-off linux has for most people.
No parts manufacturers will do the extra work to make them work for Linux
They just don't want to. Now they can stop releasing security patches and users would buy new hardware.
That’s sad, I want a phone that runs real Linux but the options I found are either outdated hardware or alpha quality.
Yup, same, I would love to switch to a Linux/FOSS phone, but it's all crap specs. Like this librem 5 phone. 3GB RAM and 32GB storage‽ LMAO what year is it, 2014‽
For now I'm pretty much just stuck on Pixel, one of the few remaining brands that reliably (surprisingly) let you unlock the BL. It's even worse now since I've had a taste of the foldy phone and I don't think I want to go back and that'll probably take 15 years before ever coming to a Linux/FOSS phone, considering where they're at now.
They've missed the boat entirely for me and I'm doubtful they'll ever catch up :/
This! Exactly this! But I guess all the off the shelf parts need proprietary driver which only are available for android. No parts manufacturers will do the extra work to make them work for Linux. Only of explicit ordered that way, but then it is custom and expensive. I fear, not many will buy an expensive midrange phone, with all the trade-off linux has for most people.
They just don't want to. Now they can stop releasing security patches and users would buy new hardware.