LibrePhone Project: Free Software Foundation Now Wants to 'Free Your Phone'

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by raffael_de • 10 months ago

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raffael_de• 10 months ago

The usual objection is that it is super difficult to develop a phone that replaces your iPhone or Samsung device. I personally absolutely wouldn't mind maintaining two or three phones depending on use cases like bank and ID stuff (phone stays home) and a limited features phone for messaging, maps, Uber, telephone.

jqpabc123• 10 months ago

LibrePhone will focus on creating a fully open mobile platform from the ground up.

Hardware --- why this PC/software minded approach just won't work with phones.

Phone hardware is all unique and proprietary and cheap (relatively speaking) --- due to manufacturing expertise and economies of scale. And the manufacturers like it this way.

Without this production/scale advantage, any "open" phone will cost 3-4x more for comparable performance. In other words --- it is destined to be a very niche market product.

The only hope for a mass market is to find a volume manufacturer willing to play along. Good luck with that.

xblob• 9 months ago

The project is to define and what blobs are still nonfree for current "free-ish" mobile phone OS's and work on freeing those. So not "a mobile OS from the ground up."

LibrePhone Project: Free Software Foundation Now Wants to 'Free Your Phone'

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