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[SOLVED] Will Linux Phones ever become commercially viable and decrease to a price point of 200-400 USD? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Don't say, hey android has Linux in it, yeah no, idc, I want to know how far we are from buying a Linux phone at a price point of 200 USD.

A Linux phone is one which is built completely on Linux, uses Linux apps and most important has a terminal.

I don't want a Linux Phone for privacy, although that's a great reason, but I want it for the freedom it provides me. Hell, I don't care if Android itself comes with a terminal and has similar features to Linux, I just want a Terminal which can install apps, where I can write commands and it will execute it. Complete Control on my phone and how it behaves is what I want.

I want to tell it when to sleep, when not to sleep, when to boot, when to edit a file and how, when to take a screenshot and what to do with it and where to save it, etc, etc. I hope you get the idea.

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All it is needed is to have at least equivalents of basic apps from F-Droid and we're getting there.

Propietary apps for accessing one smart toilet seat brand or some trash locked down social platform should be abandoned anyway.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What to you think about proprietary apps for accessing a bank account?

I kinda need these. Otherwise I'd have to carry two phones and I don't want to do that.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They shouldn't be used, not on Android, not on the web, not on Linux. We should not show companies, banks and our goverment that we are capable of giving up our freedom for some convience.

Maybe if I'll be doing buissness and need to do multiple money transfers a day I'll be using their web apps on a computer, but as I am individual person, I give friends cash and pay online via other methods.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

That's your choice. But you can make the same argument about using the Internet in general. Or any device that runs any proprietary, non-user-modifyable code.