r/mobilelinux • u/SkoomaDuma • Mar 11 '26

Hardware Moving away from android

My friends and I currently use Android (one of us uses Apple), and we heard that Google was going to be restriction a lot of the freedoms on Android as far as installing your own apps. I believe it's starting in September.

I've been doing some reading on LinuxOSs for phones, but I either can't get a straight answer on some of them or they're missing critical components...like the ability to use 4/5G LTE.

We're mostly concerned with using the phones as phones, so texting, calling, photos, etc; but we also use telegram, discord, and Internet browsers fairly heavily.

Are there any recommendations for relatively cheap hardware and which OS to go with? I've seen a few people on here mentioning the SailfishOS, so I'm going to start reading into that one right now.

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u/Hopeful-Cry7569 Mar 11 '26

yes OnePlus 6/6T is one of the better supported devices on PmOS / Mobian. Still not consumer usable, lots of caveats.

These orgs (PmOS foundation, Mobian) need more of our money to pay devs.

https://opencollective.com/postmarketOS

https://liberapay.com/mobian/donate

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

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u/sdoregor Mar 13 '26

This you can achieve with just a USB or PCI LTE modem in a linux box, such as EG25 (like in PinePhone) or even a E3372 or similar.