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  • Funnily enough, the privacy subreddit has banned all mentions of alternative phone operating systems.
    by Cider9986
  • 750 USD? I like the idea. And appreciate all the people who support such products, so phones are getting cheaper. But no way I'm getting it for over $150. It looks really cheap, and the marketing is bad, honestly. I think these corporations have spoiled me, and I was really looking for huuuuge wow effect for $750, but it's just a Linux phone.
    by RomanPushkin
  • Careful with preordering, they seem to ignore requests to cancel & the community is rather hostile to any form of criticism
    by boesboes
  • Went from iPhone (with PostMarketOS on PinePhones as tests) to /e/OS on a CMF Nothing installed by Murena to GrapheneOS on 2nd hand Pixel 8.

    I'm not advocating any of those specifically but I do recommend you take whatever step you are comfortable with to a saner mobile technology lifestyle.

    IMHO it's a worthwhile learning journey that is probably less challenging and more empowering than you can imagine.

    by utopiah
  • Jolla Phone 2026 is way better than C2, which was not even made by Jolla. This is a phoen that is made in Finland, OS is secure and field prooven for over 10years. GrapheneOS is just Android, Java bloat, Sailfish is pure Linux with Qt interface, which is also from Finland and used in automotive / industrial.

    Seems to be a quality phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_UGm9azOs

    by jooseppi2
  • Personal experience with Jolla: I bought their first mobile (still have it somewhere) that would be a "Linux Phone that run android app". Wanted to support it and was ready to expect some bugs but it did not work all. No support at all, most of android app did not work. The OS was not finished that it was already obsolete. And now there are doing it again like the first one never existed. I have zero trust in this company
    by CiTyBear
  • Wanted to mention that Sailfish has a lot of closed-source components, especially UI-related, despite the overall marketing/"vibe" making it look very open. If anything, AOSP (Android) is more open than Sailfish. I don't think this has changed with Sailfish 5, see e.g.:

    - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims...

    - https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/

    by Tiberium

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