Android is closing, time for a Framework phone!

Plasma mobile is looking a lot better by the day! I’ve been very curious of this too and other alternative mobile OSes like Ubuntu touch (UBPorts). I still like Sailfish OS’s gesture centric UI (which iOS and Android began to move towards years later). Also, their Android App Support help bridge the app gap. We do need something that isn’t based on Android though as Google still has such huge leverage over the project. As such I don’t consider Graphene OS a true third alternative.

Plasma mobile looks very much like Android in those screenshots, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s certainly more familiar than, say, Sailfish OS’s Silica (think they’re due a new UI update there). Perhaps I’d go away with the navigation buttons though. Does it have some kind of a gesture-based alternative to navigation buttons at the bottom?

Boy this looks tempting, if the whole safetynet mess means I can’t run stuff like revolut on my lineageos phone anymore I may as well go full linux.

Yup, I decided to stick to buttons because I got this phone from a friend who wanted to toss it out. It was heavily used and has nasty burn-in from Android navigation bar, so it looks terrible with gesture navigation enabled

I’d also buy it in a heartbeat if they shipped with GrapheneOS.

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me too, me too!

I would settle for a collaboration with Fairphone, add in one modular port developed and supported by framework. have a few different modules,

IR Blaster, headphone jack, second sim slot, radio antenna(remember when phones had radio),