• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    To be most specific, LineageOS (open source Android) on a Google Pixel phone. Google’s Pixel hardware is open.

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      10 months ago

      You can side load apps on pretty much every version of Android.

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        10 months ago

        Yes but if you want the truly free “this is my hardware, keep your corpo hands off of it” experience, then Pixel phones with FOSS OS is the way to go.

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      10 months ago

      even the modem? I was under the impression that cellular modems where the thing keeping a truly free phone being made.

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        10 months ago

        Pretty sure grapheneos has binary blobs for all the firmware, SOC/modem, camera, Bluetooth etc. nothing they can do since the manufacturers only release binary blobs and by the time it could be reversed engineered it would be obsolete