Comment by Abishek_Muthian | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Abishek_Muthian | Hacker News Reader

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Abishek_Muthian

More,

Repairable smartphones, with various choices for operating systems from brands which doesn't seem to exhibit hypocrisy when it comes their values -

https://www.fairphone.com/en/

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

https://www.shiftphones.com/en/

https://myteracube.com/

But when the parent said,

> Abandon the smart phone crap

It may not just be about open hardware/OS/Apps for smartphone but the hold the carrier has on the customer and therein privacy issues. This is a hard problem to solve because cellular services are oligopolies or even monopolies and amplified by lack of open modem/radio hardware.

So ditching smartphones for a portable computer might be even a good option[1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917178

> from brands which doesn't seem to exhibit hypocrisy when it comes their values

This is a strong accusation. Which of those brands are recommended by the FSF [0]? Which of them are actually trying to change the industry with their investments (promoting freedom/privacy) [1]? Which of them are fighting against planned obsolescence by providing lifetime updates [2]? Given all that I am not sure who is a hypocrite.

> So ditching smartphones for a portable computer might be even a good option

Librem 5 is a portable computer [3].

[0] https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

[2] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

[3] https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-desktop-convergence/

My comment wasn't targeted at Purism, I hoped a break after 'More,' would have helped make that point but I should have used better grammar.

Apart from that I stand by what I said.

Then whom did you accuse of hypocrisy and why?

Not OP, but common sense is telling me the answer you seek is "other companies not in the list by OP"

I have a pinephone. Once the modem manager stuff gets up streamed (so MMS works) and the distros make it easier to update the modem firmware (or they start shipping with updated firmware from the factory) these will probably be in the "just turn it on and use it" state.

There's been an insane degree of improvement in the software over the past 6 months.

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