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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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