Hey all,
I want to get away from Android, at the moment my solution is a flip phone. it runs an old version of Android GO, but the lack of practicality drives me away from using it frequently.
are there any good phone/distro combos with working VoLTE? anything to avoid? any advice or recs would be great.
Thanks!
Motorola have announced a partnership with Graphene OS, a Canadian company. If the models Moto ships are semi affordable I would jump at that.
Graphene is not a GNU/Linux distro, it’s an Android fork.
Perhaps not, but there is no GNU/Linux distro that is “ready for primetime” as a mobile OS right now. I WISH there was, but UBPorts, PostmarketOS, etc all either have significant features disparity or are straight up still marketed as “developer experimental”.
GrapheneOS is a solid choice for now to provide an alternative, whether a permanent replacement or a stepping stone.
FuriOS’s FLX1s works pretty well; it’s been my primary device for 3 months, now.
Are their phones even any good? Serious question, I haven’t heard of Motorola in the last 10 or so years, I didn’t even know they still existed.
It would be deliciously ironic if they launched GrapheneOS on their Thinkphone models though. They would totally match my thinkpad laptop which I already use.
Motorola have always done great low and mid range phones. They were a hold out on removable batteries longer than any other company for example. Don’t know if they still do such phones though but I do know there still good in that race comparatively. Good value for money.