Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by kapnobatairza on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:59PM (#20556750)

I've been looking for a "FOSS" phone that is based purely on AOSP. I don't want a custom ROM, Play Store, cloud, or to have to create any accounts or sign into anything. I just want a simple Android phone with decent specs that I can install APKs on. Does this exist at all? Or do I have to buy/pay for a "full" Android phone and reflash it?

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by AWildC182 on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:09PM (#20556858)

Buy an unlocked bootloader phone (ie oneplus) and put lineage os on it. Lineage doesn't come with any of the google apps or the play store, just a few basic apps and the ability to put whatever else you want on it.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by rehemiau on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:17PM (#20556942)

This is what I've been doing for a few years now. Some apps require Google Play Services (Revolut?), some show a warning that can be ignored and run fine afterwards (Authy, Signal), some have limited functionality like no notifications (Slack), but many work just fine (Firefox, Spotify, and even Messenger Lite)

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by hestipod on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:12PM (#20559517)

Microg has forked LOS and packaged it preconfigured https://lineage.microg.org/

Useful if you want play services and store function without Google. But I know it has it's own security concerns so not clearly "better" overall.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by swiley on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:31PM (#20559656)

What makes alpine nice is that it’s super easy to compile yourself and hack on it.

Have you ever tried compiling android? It’s not fun.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by eptcyka on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:24PM (#20557024)

You could buy a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it. https://grapheneos.org/#device-support

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by kop316 on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:56PM (#20558056)

I looked at the page, it is interesting, but I have never heard anything about this. They page didn't also say anything about who they were/what they do?

Do you have anywhere with more information about this/the folks behind it?

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by Tepix on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:23PM (#20558394)

It's the successor of the Copperhead OS project. Some details at https://liliputing.com/2019/04/grapheneos-is-an-android-base...

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by Brakenshire on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:59PM (#20560368)

Fantastic that it’s open source now.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by zyren on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:18PM (#20560042)

Their website does a pretty horrible job of selling the OS. I was interested until i saw 0 screenshots of what the OS actually looked like. None on their website or github.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by bubblethink on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:37AM (#20571930)

It looks like AOSP. There is no extra eye candy or frills, and that's not even remotely their focus.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by craftyguy on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:27PM (#20557715)

> I don't want a custom ROM

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by kop316 on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:04PM (#20557461)

Hello,

I did just that with a Google Pixel 3a, but you should be able to do that with any Google Android Device. I actually compiled AOSP and LineageOS from source.

But to keep in mind, those all have proprietary Drivers.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by jraph on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:20PM (#20556985)

No. As far as I know, there are always proprietary blobs.

That said, he Fair Phone 2 officially supports degooglized Android Pie (Lineage).

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