I will be switching to Graphene OS🇨🇦 full time to keep my access to f-droid.
Cross that road when it happens. Likely, next phone purchase will be a lot more annoying.
Waiting for Motorola linux phone.
Supposedly 2027 onward their top line phones will be Graphene compatible.
I own, and love, my samsung Fold7, so afraid im kinda screwed.
I’m still on my Fold6. I got a Pixel Pro Fold to use Graphene and it was great for a while, but the device itself kinda fell apart, so I’m back on the Fold6.
A folding Linux phone would be really cool, and also $3000.
yea
I love my fold since i play OSRS for a couple hours a day, and can watch youtube on half the screen while still having a decent sized screen.
Its also great professionally, since i can call up blueprints and not have them postage stamp sized.
I am running LineageOS with MicroG for now but I still feel im not degoogled enough lol. Relying on that horrendous company in anyway (even if it is to maintain and contribute to the AOSP) still makes me feel a bit sick. So I have a second phone (FP6) Running pmos thanks to @TheMightyCat@ani.social which im waiting for it to become stable enough to daily drive and then ill be satisfied.
I’ve been on Ubuntu Touch for a couple of months now! I’m enjoying it so far
Which device and cell provider are you using?
The phone is a Fairphone 3, and the provider is Lebara (I don’t think it exists outside the UK, but there you go)
Stuck with Samsung phone so it looks like I’m fucked
I have a furilabs phone i got in anticipation of this… turns out no service provider supports it in my neck of the woods. Kinda fucked
Ouch. I once crowdfunded a phone that was compatible with Ubuntu Touch and it came out two years late, downgraded, and mine didn’t even work. It sounds like yours might at least have resale value.
I recently learned Samsung makes a durable phone with a removable battery, and it has no lineage os support. So IDK, I’ll troll around eBay for a good deal on a used phone I guess. Sooner than later this phone is dying.
I’m gonna split my phone from my smart device entirely. Buying a Maker 2 phone when it drops tomorrow. Maybe this won’t work out as well as I’d hoped… but it will actually cost me about the same for 2 lines cuz I’m already overpaying on my regular plan.
Switches to Graphene OS earlier this year when my old phone kicked the bucket. Super happy with the change!
Dumbphone/grapheme combo
I don’t know, I might start just carrying around that Lenovo tablet I’ve got running Fedora Gnome. It’s only slightly larger than the average phone in 2026 anyway, and it’s got a SIM card slot.
We already have the developer option to allow apps not verified by Google. You can do the 24hr wait now to preemptively enable unverified apps, and then nothing will change whenever they choose to actually start enforcing signatures. I’ve already done it and although a bit annoying it’s far from enough a roadblock for me to get rid of my phone. We need better Linux phones, or banking apps that can actually work on graphene without the constant cat and mouse game of passing play integrity in the Google space. Even if we had a great Linux phone many mobile websites just try to redirect you to their app rather than build a real mobile website, so it would be tedious to use for many functions. Graphene is great, but the number of Android apps that refuse to run without play integrity passing is far too high for me to risk buying a compatible phone and going all in on it. Perhaps the new Motorola partnership will be able to help this in some way, but I won’t believe it until I see it.
I’ll continue using my phone until it stops working. Then I’ll go with a feature phone, maybe something rubbing Kaios because WhatsApp is a must where i live. Can’t say i use my phone for anything productive to warrant having one, but since i already do…
Nothing, because I barely use my phone as it is. Hopefully, when it is time to upgrade there will be some decent Linux phones in my price range.
I own a Fairphone, so switching to graphene would be trivial. However, I think I will stick with the convoluted workaround they will implement. At least until I get tired of it.
