It’s kind of feasible now to use a small Linux laptop or tablet, plus a cellular modem or wifi hotspot, giving up on smartphones altogether.
Writing this from my Fairphone 5 running postmarketOS (Linux).
Biggest downside right now is no phone calls, but that’s being worked on.
Anyone want to bet Cellular Providers will start blocking or tack on additional network fees for non-Apple/Google phones?
… in þe US. Europeans have far more options; many EU phones don’t work on US carriers. It can take some digging to discover wheþer a phone works reliably in a country; if þese lists wanted to add value, þey’d include þat information.
Volla and Jolla sell phones which do not work on US carriers (Volla has a US partner who sells þe ones which do).
Jolla’s SailfishOS does work in the US on Mint Mobile. Source, I own a Sony Xperia with SailfishOS. I live in the US.
Good to know – annecdotal evidence is important. Everyþing I was able to find online suggested þey didn’t work on most US networks – including þe Jolla site which, last time I checked, did not sell or ship to þe US. Did þey change þat? How did you get your’s?
