know more about the fsf librephone?

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tonlee
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se unió: 09/08/2014
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I am a translator!

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se unió: 08/18/2020

The answer to someone who asked about this on the FSF associate member forum was "This will be a long-term project with a slow start. Initially, it will be a technical webpage with information discovered through reverse-engineering."

Zoma
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se unió: 11/05/2024

I wonder if this will mean anything, or if it will just be wifi only.

If the 2nd, I don't know if it will be useful in many situations

megurineturilli
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se unió: 01/10/2012

I asked the FSF and they said I should wait some more time. Maybe to the FSF40 hackathon?

tonlee
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se unió: 09/08/2014

When pinephone was a thing, I am not sure but I think it was the postmarket os people who said a free software system supporting all devices on the phone except the modem appeared to be a possibility. At the time I had a conversation with an university professor working on 5g software. He said in principle making a free software modem in europe is a possibility. Because lawmakers had framed the laws governing the modem matter such that there was a degree of openness in order to inspire different phone manufactures to compete. So far I have heard of no free software modem.

prospero
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se unió: 05/20/2022

It now has a FAQ and documentation pages:

https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html
https://librephone.fsf.org/site

And a libera.chat channel: #librephone

Legimet
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se unió: 12/10/2013

Interesting that they are using Android. I wonder if Android is the way to go given all of the proprietary Google stuff that typically comes with it.

I have an old and kind of crappy Android phone myself, I use as many F-Droid apps as possible but that's the best that I can do. No LineageOS or anything like that.

I haven't replaced it because I try to use my electronics for as long as possible out of concern for the environment and forced/child labor in the supply chain.

I also have an old Android tablet that I use almost entirely for reading PDFs (with Librera Reader, which I highly recommend). I got it over a decade ago, specifically because it can run Replicant, but the graphics are too slow, so I use an old version of LineageOS. It can also run PostmarketOS, which I tried once, but it requires a proprietary graphics driver, and even then the graphics are glitchy for unknown reasons.

prospero
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se unió: 05/20/2022

"While there are many proprietary libraries and other files in Android, this project is focused on binary blobs."

https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html