So like what mobile OS is there now? Graphene which itself is forked from Android? Like we have barely made it to 20 years with this tech and its locked the fuck up with no options for the people. Boutta be using a dumbphone for sure.
There’s still a surprising amount of devices made by HMD (who own Nokia’s consumer phone brand, so you’ll sometimes see them as Nokias) that run Series 30+ (think old Nokia software with some very slight modern enhancements) but have 4G hardware to play ball on modern networks.
I really want PostmarketOS to succeed, even to be good enough as a secondary device. The long term support and software flexibility seems so promising, but it is still nowhere near ready for most people.
Me too! I find the concept thrilling, and while I am usually an early adopter of these things, I could never use PostmarketOS as my daily driver. My phone needs to work…
So like what mobile OS is there now? Graphene which itself is forked from Android? Like we have barely made it to 20 years with this tech and its locked the fuck up with no options for the people. Boutta be using a dumbphone for sure.
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There’s still a surprising amount of devices made by HMD (who own Nokia’s consumer phone brand, so you’ll sometimes see them as Nokias) that run Series 30+ (think old Nokia software with some very slight modern enhancements) but have 4G hardware to play ball on modern networks.
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If you want a half functioning phone I’ve seen something called PostmarketOS. Seems nice and barely working
I really want PostmarketOS to succeed, even to be good enough as a secondary device. The long term support and software flexibility seems so promising, but it is still nowhere near ready for most people.
Me too! I find the concept thrilling, and while I am usually an early adopter of these things, I could never use PostmarketOS as my daily driver. My phone needs to work…
There are Linux Mobile OSs making promising developments, like KDE-Mobile. I’m planning on tossing it on a second-device, just to test it for myself.
Graphene is not a fork. They just harden the code published by Google. This is why the recent changes by Google have been causing them more work.
It is absolutely a fork.
Yes, that is what a fork is.