Oh, wow, announcing an initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone. That's a great idea! No one has announced such a thing before. Because if they had obviously it would have come to fruition by now.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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And it seems like the goal isn’t to start from scratch, but to take an existing operating system like Android and reverse engineer all the proprietary components until it’s capable of running on smartphones and other mobile devices without relying on any proprietary drivers.
This is going to stall out like all the previous attempts. At best the phone will half work and then rapidly become completely outdated.
I saw a custom smartphone used by the military - no idea what's inside but it looked like a regular one with giant battery and with some different OS. It also had a kill switch button (or so I was told).
Signal comes preinstalled.
With random journalists in the contacts.