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Are there any free software phones? Are there any that I can use to access my email, and play music?
I found the Neo FreeRunner on the FSF site. Wikipedia says this phone was released in 2008, and so may be sort of dated now. Does anyone have any experience with it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
I live in Ontario, Canada, and so would need a phone that I can use with one of the providers that operate here. Rogers, Telus, and Bell are the major carriers. Wind Mobile has a new network here, but the service area is limited compared to the major carriers, I think.
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It would work technically. The main issue is it's a developers phone and the solution doesn't work that well practically. It is "good enough" as a toy. You really can dial out and receive calls. The problem is the call quality/volume etc type of issue. It's very slow, etc. It's far from a usable phone. However it has gotten a little better. If you get one and then spent a grand or so upgrading it, etc you can get rid of the audio bug issue, etc. There was an issue which was partially fixable by physically modifying the the board in the phone a few years ago. The $1000 newer boards I believe come with this issue fixed.
Thanks Magic Banana. Is there a reason you recommended the Galaxy S2 over the other Replicant-compatible phones?
I stopped by the phone store today to ask them about the S2, and I like it.
Edit: I just noticed that the Galaxy Nexus is also supported. I think that the Galaxy Nexus has better screen resolution, but it's otherwise pretty similar to the S2.
Do you have any thoughts on which I should get, if I get a new phone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_nexus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_s2
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyNexus
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS2
Among the available phones, the Galaxy S2 is the best supported one. The Galaxy Nexus does not have its camera supported. Here is the status of the devices Replicant supports.
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If you get a buzz-fixed Freerunner then it should work fine as a daily phone, at least with one of the official images (e.g. OM2009 works fine as a phone if you regularly delete SMS messages). As an actual smartphone it is less impressive, as setting up wireless, bluetooth and other stuff can be tiresome on most distros. I currently use a Freerunner with Debian and E17 with econnman (the last two I had to compile from source which took a while). It is acceptable as a basic tablet and SIP phone. Wireless connectivity isn't great though (its reception is poor and it disconnects from home router which runs OpenWRT every few hours).
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Is there a place to buy the buzz-fixed freerunner? I never had the time to deal with this issue. I believe there wasn't a fix at the time either. I know that a fix existed and the newer board has the issue fixed. If you can get a fixed phone that might do the trick and it would be less than $1000 too.
It is too bad the newer board for the phone is just the board and you still need an older model. Not to mention the cost of it.
:( I'm sure that cost could be reduced if more people bought one.
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Neo Freerunner is available here for 300 euros:
http://www.pulster.eu/
How about Gonkai telephone?
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have any of you investigated firefox os phone? i had heard that it uses open source mire than a default android. the possible hardware provider is geeksphone.
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