Furry Phone yay
Im very interested in an officially supported linux phone, however the fitmware seems not to be upstream(yet?). I hope it will be upstreamed, or else were back to square one with linux mobile hardware support if they stop working on it!
They will upstream stuff, but sadly they are not going to mainline.
China and upstream do not combine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bootloader was non unlockable too.
Hong Kong only recently became part of China.(This was not correct, it became part of China in 1997). I’m sure the protests are fresh in people’s minds still. If anywhere would want private phones it would be HK.Wait China conquered HK already???
China didn’t “conquer” anything. They had an agreement that would keep them independent until a certain date and that date passed. So HK now belongs to China, as was agreed.
I was a little misinformed, it turns out HK has belonged to China since 1997, and the recent protests were just because of some policy changes that make China’s influence stronger in regards to their ability to extradite people into mainland China.
Furry Phone? Is this going to make me want to fuck a gazelle? Again?
Despite the market domination of Apple’s iOS
Since when?
The register is out of the UK and the bulk of their readership is in the US, in both places apple has above 50% market share.
Thx. I didn’t knew it was that bad
I mean, do we have viable alternative? Like every popular brand is from similar tech megacorps.
Android is open source
Partially. From what I’ve read most of current android is proprietary, and the the open source part is behind by a lot. Usual evil Google way.
Look for grapheneos
Is it better than PinePhone?
I don’t think so
Headphone jack 3.5mm waterproof
It has a fucking headphone jack?!? I might actually consider this as my next device.
Just use a $5 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC?
According to the Librem people: this is Android kernel (& other low level stuff) with Debian userspace, not a true Debian phone. https://social.librem.one/@dos/112686932765355105
At least it might actually get delivered, unlike the librem 5… /s (but not really)
It’s already delivered - a Mastodon user got one.
But getting an OEM to make a phone under your brand is easy. The real question is how long will they keep the software maintained?
These people seem like passionate Linux enthusiasts, so one can hope.
