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Alternative phones than mainstream

last modified by Victor Zhang

on 00:18, 22/07/2020

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It's more like a quirk than anything else

Using alternative platform might just make your life harder, a lot of time cost more, however it's a good learning process

Source : https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/

https://www.tizen.org/ , Linux based, not fully tested ( security issue )

http://plasma-phone.org/, Linux KDE

https://postmarketos.org/, Linux based, not much info

https://www.pureos.net/, Linux based, seems more tested has PC version too

https://ubports.com/, Ubuntu linux based, has its own hardware

https://pivotce.com/tag/luneos/, WebOS successor

Remark: having used WebOS, the backthen web based top layer on kernal is very ahead of its time, that's probably why it failed

The hardware/software wasn't ready making the device taking too long to boot, however now you can see a lot of OS running its interface on browser like chromeOS

https://lineageos.org/, Android derivative

Hardware: https://hackaday.io/project/42944-kite-open-hardware-android-smartphone

Kite: https://www.kiteboard.io/

A very interesting project as it focus on hardware , and not like common testbeds, it has most phone's function including cellular

Could be very good testbed for some android based design project

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