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Okay. I have a month to pick out a new phone before I can no longer cancel my pre-ordered Light Phone 3. I really like my Light Phone 2, but living without a camera has been a little too limiting, and the folks in my life would really appreciate me at least getting that capability back. I am still bitter about losing the headphone jack, though.

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

Kicking things off, I came very close to going even more minimal than the Light Phone when I found Sky's Edge Rotary Phone. I wanted this thing so bad, but folks in my life vetoed going that low-function pretty hard.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

Hackaday

The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, Two Years Later

We know the pandemic has screwed with a lot of people’s sense of time, but we doubled checked, and it has indeed been more than two years since the Internet first laid eyes upon the incredibl…

Ulrike Hahn boosted

knoppix

@knoppix95@mastodon.social · last week

GrapheneOS is expanding beyond Google Pixel 🔐
A major Snapdragon-powered OEM will soon support the security-first OS 📱

The unnamed device—using Snapdragon 8 Gen 5—is expected to offer similar pricing and full installability 💻
Not Fairphone; OnePlus is a strong candidate, but unconfirmed 🤔

@GrapheneOS

🔗 https://9to5google.com/2025/10/14/grapheneos-will-drop-google-pixel-exclusivity-with-major-snapdragon-powered-devices-coming/

#TechNews #Android #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #Snapdragon #OnePlus #Mobile #Smartphones #UserFreedom #Cybersecurity #Linux #OS #Technology

9to5Google

GrapheneOS will drop Google Pixel exclusivity with 'major' Snapdragon-powered devices coming

GrapheneOS is a security-focused Android experience that, to date, has been available solely on Google Pixel devices. Soon, though, a...

knoppix

@knoppix95@mastodon.social · last week

GrapheneOS is expanding beyond Google Pixel 🔐
A major Snapdragon-powered OEM will soon support the security-first OS 📱

The unnamed device—using Snapdragon 8 Gen 5—is expected to offer similar pricing and full installability 💻
Not Fairphone; OnePlus is a strong candidate, but unconfirmed 🤔

@GrapheneOS

🔗 https://9to5google.com/2025/10/14/grapheneos-will-drop-google-pixel-exclusivity-with-major-snapdragon-powered-devices-coming/

#TechNews #Android #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #Snapdragon #OnePlus #Mobile #Smartphones #UserFreedom #Cybersecurity #Linux #OS #Technology

9to5Google

GrapheneOS will drop Google Pixel exclusivity with 'major' Snapdragon-powered devices coming

GrapheneOS is a security-focused Android experience that, to date, has been available solely on Google Pixel devices. Soon, though, a...

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Pete Orrall

@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe · last week

I use #fdroid but #google may be enforcing #developer registration in #android soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new #mobile OSes.

#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore

#technews #smartphone

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project

: Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member

Pete Orrall

@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe · last week

#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore

#technews #smartphone

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project

: Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member

Poor 'Possum

@poorpossum@kolektiva.social · 2 weeks ago

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

Hackaday

The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, Two Years Later

We know the pandemic has screwed with a lot of people’s sense of time, but we doubled checked, and it has indeed been more than two years since the Internet first laid eyes upon the incredibl…

mkb boosted

PrivacyDigest

@PrivacyDigest@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

#FSF Announces the #LibrePhone Project

The #FreeSoftwareFoundation (FSF) has launched the #LibrePhoneProject , an initiative to create a fully free and open-source #mobile operating system that eliminates #proprietary #firmware and binary blobs. From the FSF: "Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment.
#privacy #security #opensource

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/15/0312206/fsf-announces-the-librephone-project?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

FSF Announces the LibrePhone Project - Slashdot

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched the LibrePhone Project, an initiative to create a fully free and open-source mobile operating system that eliminates proprietary firmware and binary blobs. From the FSF: "Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom...

PrivacyDigest

@PrivacyDigest@mas.to · 2 weeks ago

#FSF Announces the #LibrePhone Project

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/15/0312206/fsf-announces-the-librephone-project?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

FSF Announces the LibrePhone Project - Slashdot

Cory Doctorow and 1 other boosted

Tommaso Gagliardoni

@tomgag@infosec.exchange · 4 weeks ago

We have to stop the Google/Apple mobile duopoly. And we have to stop the marching enshittification of society. More concretely, we have to fight back against Google's attempt to lock-down the whole Android ecosystem.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This is something that any sane regulatory body should forbid.

#google #apple #android #aosp #fdroid #privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #mobile #politics

Tommaso Gagliardoni

@tomgag@infosec.exchange · 4 weeks ago

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

This is something that any sane regulatory body should forbid.

#google #apple #android #aosp #fdroid #privacy #security #enshittification #surveillance #mobile #politics

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕

@kubikpixel@chaos.social · last month

@343max do you mean like that?!??

#alien #handy #mobilephone #signal #irony #humor #alsoonsignal #comic #mobile #joke #nerdjoke #messenger

A woman with a mobile phone in front of her eyes holding on to her like an alien.

devintrap.

@devintrap@fosstodon.org · last month

My buddy is afraid of the #google keyboard reading his message on #signal. I can believe it. some know any reasonable #Linux distro for #mobile?

eklem

@eklem@social.vivaldi.net · 2 months ago

Anyone having experience with transmitting/receiving data as sound from/to mobile browsers?

What would actually work to transport some megabytes of data and be a little recillient to background noise?

#javascript #mobile #browser

Cory Doctorow boosted

Rik Viergever

@rikviergever@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

#Enshittification explains why with basically every Big Tech company the users are the product these days and not the customer. The customers are the Ad companies! A great talk by Cory Doctorow here on the topic if you have 30mins:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo

#tech #IT #ICT #BigTech #Digital #mobile

@gael @murena @e_mydata @pluralistic

Rik Viergever

@rikviergever@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo

#tech #IT #ICT #BigTech #Digital #mobile

@gael @murena @e_mydata @pluralistic

Alan Zimmerman boosted

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de · 2 months ago

A great deal of #LLM and #AI is indeed hype and bullshit, but there's many basic #surveillance tasks (mostly pattern matching, and monitoring deviations from normal behaviour) that basic algorithms can very easily process quicker than humans, and feed their findings to humans for such purposes as #traffic #law enforcement - already #Australia and #UK are working together on "AI" enabled #CCTV cameras with #ANPR monitoring, that can detect not only #speeding but illegal use of #mobile phones and possible #DUI or defective vehicles (such as where the driver is having difficulty staying in correct lane)