Is there hope for Linux on smartphones?

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https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

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Rooted android

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Smart phones are tracking devices at the hardware level, built into the cellular radio. Linux has been ready for being a smartphone for quite awhile, but is waiting for non-adversarial hardware. Pine Phone has been the pioneers in this front. Yet, I find it hard to trust the CPUs and cellular modules themselves.

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Yes, if you want basic phone function. Absolutely not in a decade if you want something like a current smartphone.

It's not even the base phone or the operating system, Linux is just flat out better, it's that every piece of walled garden software does not want you to know what it does.