I hope those get more mature and stable, I do have one but it's kind of a mess to have things not break on you. Updates corruption and all.

This is on the Pinephone Pro btw.

Pinephone software is written by volunteers. Librem 5 is more stable: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-daily-driven-in-profession...

There's also Ubuntu Touch which I hope gathers steam. I installed it on an old Pixel 3a I had lying around mostly for fun, in much the same way I did for GalliumOS install on an old HP Chromebook.

I personally prefer SXMo.

> There are some devices for sale which allow this. But they're enormously unpopular.

> The problem is no one has made a smartphone with that open model.

> don't prevent you from installing any OS.

That you then can't really do anything with either because of the super limited HW support (due to only using "free" drivers) or because they're so slow you just give up in frustration. Or lack of apps.

At least in the case of the Librem 5 its wildly overpriced for what you actually get (if you ever actually get it that is).

How is the limited hardware support connected to the free drivers? You can install Mobian, postmarketOS on a Librem 5 already. Pinephone is supported by 15+ operating systems.

If you think the hardware is slow, have a look at SXMo.

> if you ever actually get it that is

They've been delivering the phones within 10 days since a long tome already. Sent from my Librem 5.