I’ve been looking into potentially switching to an alternative smart phone, something like the Jolla phone with sailfish OS, the fairphone, etc. I think something like that would be excellent for what I want my smart phone to do, and I’m tired of the one I have. However from what I’ve read online, they don’t really seem to work well in the USA. I am on T mobile which seems to work better than other providers, but I was wondering if any of the fine people on Lemmy have actual experience they can share.
I just get used Pixel phones and put Lineage OS on them, or Graphene if thats more you vibe. I would love to one day move to some a more open and repairable phone but the US market just does not seem interested.
Now that Android is holding back open source Android releases, I want to switch to some kind of Linux phone. It’s a shame that there are no Linux phones with a mainline kernel that are fully functional and not extremely slow (looking at you, Pinephone and Librem 5), though.
And Halium is just a stopgap, since it essentially uses an Android kernel and drivers, meaning the kernel will eventually be EOL after the long term support for that version runs out.