Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?
Dmitriy Nikandrov
dmitriy.nikandrov at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 13:24:47 UTC 2013
Not only phones,
but also laptops, desktops, routers, etc... Even Raspberry Pi in it's
heart is closed source.
The problem is that there is no OPEN HARDWARE chips (with open firmware):
for Wi-Fi
for GSM (even can't be because of patents on core specifications)
for LTE
for GPS
2013/9/25, Nick <replicant at njw.me.uk>:
> Quoth Brian Kemp:
>> To be clear - the driver is free. The firmware is not.
>
> Gosh, looking at the table on the status page [0] I see that there
> are no devices which have wifi without non-free firmware. So there
> are no phones which have either free wifi or free gsm parts? The
> situation sucks even more than I realised as a casual observer.
> "Sure, you can use your phone freely, so long as you don't want any
> connectivity."
>
> /me sighs.
>
> 0. http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus
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