The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

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[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tell me more about the phone! This has taken so long and I am ready to migrate to an open phone even if it's only for texting at this point.

Screw this OS monopoly by Apple and Alphabet.

Open to simple solutions here. I have a Pixel 4a 5g and iPhone 12 atm.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

your pixel probably runs graphene, degoogle it.

you could probably run linux on it today too.

[–] HerbSolo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's keeping me from doing this is that i won't be able to run my banking apps anymore then. And I can't be arsed to carry two phones

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

linux phones will never run banking apps either.

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps there's this magic app called a "web-browser" I could introduce you to...

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

banking doesn't work on just web browsers anymore on most of the world's banks. i WISH.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Huh, they still work for all my banks here in the US. Not sure how you're supposed to access your bank account on your PC otherwise. Some banks you'll have to use the "use Desktop version of the site" option in a mobile browser to get it to work, but it will still work.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

access your bank account on your PC otherwise

we're not. not without a phone.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

ah, two factor authentication is the issue then?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

yup. would be no issue if they didn't force their shitty proprietary app.

[–] Coopr8@kbin.earth 1 points 5 hours ago

Huh, we still almost always have SMS as a validation method for 2FA here, so any SMS to web method works.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Well it might not even be a phone, maybe it's only a software project that needs to partner with manufacturers that would include it in their phones. The article doesn't really mention much.

Either way, I'm starting to get excited.