On Thursday, 22 January 2026 16:10:26 AEDT Richard Keech via luv-main wrote: > I'm interested in my next phone being neither Android nor Apple - ideally > with Linux, but not necessarily. I've been down the rabbit hole looking at > options like: > > - Ubuntu Touch
I thought that they had given up on that but they are apparently still going. They have some interesting stuff. > - Fairphone You can run Debian or Android on that, I think Android is better supported. > - Graphene OS on Pixel phones > - Lineage OS Graphene and Lineage both have some good points. But they have some issues. Lineage doesn't support VoLTE on Samsung last I checked and presumably Graphene would have the same issue. My experiments with Android without Google Play didn't give a good result but more apps have been added to f-droid since then so maybe it's better now. > - Calyx OS I don't like their obsession with relocking the boot loader even though it does have some benefits. > - Murena That's LineageOS with MicroG added in. Probably the best thing to do is decide first whether you want MicroG and use that to narrow you list of options. > - Shiftphone Easy to repair is a good goal. But may not go well with other goals. How important is the support model of Fairphone/Shiftphone vs the openness of running Debian or the combination of security and UI/app compatibility of Graphene/Lineage? Also how important is good hardware specs? > - Teracube Another phone with good for the environment as a thing but the specs aren't great. 720*1560!!! > - Purism/PureOS PureOS/Furios/Droidian/Mobian are versions of Debian running on phones. They work pretty well nowadays if you are happy to break from Android. Running Android in a container is possible with some performance overhead. > - Privsecure Their devices are surprisingly expensive, even compared to Purism! > It's all a bit daunting, and Australian support looks weak at best. VoLTE makes things difficult and the Australian market is small so not all vendors care much about us. > Right now the nicest looking option is the Fairphone 6, but it's not > officially supported in Australia. > > I would welcome any pointers to folk here in Australia who have already made > the plunge on this who can point me in the right direction. I have recently bought a Furilabs FLX1s and am still waiting for the SIM caddy to try phone calls. It looks like it might do what I need as a daily driver. https://flounder.linux.org.au/joinus/ You might want to join Flounder to discuss such things, there's a few people in the Matrix room who are into these things. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
