Develop new phone hardware? That’s doomed eg Purism and Pine64. OEM Graphene or LineageOS phones and jailbreaks of existing phones are more promising. Or just give up on smartphones and separate computers from phones like earlier.
So why is Graphene so demanding on hardware? Regular Android runs on billions of lesser phones. Other than the stupid issues around stuff like device drivers, is it enough to run something like LineageOS if you were previously satisfied with a de-junked Android? I’d take a budget phone with Lineage over a flagship phone with Graphene for sure.
Develop new phone hardware? That’s doomed eg Purism and Pine64. OEM Graphene or LineageOS phones and jailbreaks of existing phones are more promising. Or just give up on smartphones and separate computers from phones like earlier.
OEM graphene is literally making new phone hardware for a specific OS to run on. Agreed, they are probably the most promising project.
So why is Graphene so demanding on hardware? Regular Android runs on billions of lesser phones. Other than the stupid issues around stuff like device drivers, is it enough to run something like LineageOS if you were previously satisfied with a de-junked Android? I’d take a budget phone with Lineage over a flagship phone with Graphene for sure.