The year of the Linux Phone is coming!
- Purism runs ancient hardware, charges way too much and has questionable business ethics.
- Pine64 has equally bad hardware but reasonable prices. I don't like the Hong-Kong connection though. Not sure how the security patching environment is in practice.
The only option on the table as I see it is buying from the devil and installing GrapheneOS.
Yes, it currently builds on top of Hallium. Anyone who thinks this should be a sticking point has their head in the sand; the device and effort is how you get a usable ecosystem rolling.
https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
> charges way too much
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355
> questionable business ethics
They retrospectively changed their return policy in order to not get bankrupt. AFAIK everything is find now. I'm a happy owner of Librem 5 btw.