Linux Phones

I’m looking for opinions from people about their personal preferences on the best Linux phones available today — both software and the phone hardware to accompany it.

My leading contenders right now are postmarketos running on a used Pixel or sailfishos running on jolla or Sony Xperia.

My priorities:

• commitment to FOSS, no lock-in
• Premium-tier phone hardware (camera, screen, battery)
• performant Android emulation or performant web app integration
• ongoing organization or community support
• few/no dependencies on American companies or products

Subjective and biased opinions are welcome; I’m really trying to get a feel of how the earliest adopters are thinking.

If so what's the feature compatibility like? Can u run android apks through a VM?

Fluffychat is still broken and we are waiting for the Mir updates which it needs, in order for Flutter to be compatible.

We still have groups on Matrix but they are not very much used. A move from telegram could be possible once we have a properly working Matrix client but even then we would need bridging from telegram and with so many groups that would only be practical for a few.

Well apart from a problem with MMS, VoLTE is working pretty well with Mediatek devices. On Qualcomm we are still making progress but not there yet. We need some testing of the beta version for Qualcomm, preferably with feedback from across the world because a standard is very loose and the exact situation is very variable.

In the USA and India 2G and 3G has already been shut down. It will be great to get UT working properly again in those markets.

Samsung make their phones almost impossible to work with. The same applies to Xiaomi and their locked boot loaders.

This is awesome news! Sailfish needs all the support it can get!

This is really cool that this community is picking up attention with linmob.net also mentioning us in a news release.

This is why we need the smaller alternatives to succeed.

Technically running FreeRTOS and therefore not Linux, but the OS was open sourced by Google earlier this year, so I think it counts in spirit.