Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le mardi 24 septembre 2013 à 16:52 -0700, petercstevenson at telus.net a
écrit :
> It shows what works on what phones so you can decide for yourself what
> seems like the best option. With the newest release of Replicant, it
> looks like the Galaxy S2 will be your best bet. If you don't care about
> having a camera, I would probably go with the Galaxy S3.

Galaxy S3 camera is already ready, works and will be part of the next
release (soon enough). I also added Galaxy Note (1st generation)
support. So basically, the best devices are Galaxy S2, S3 and Note (all
are supported the same but I'd say Note is a little slower).

> Peter Stevenson
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 09:20 +0000, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: 
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I have a question: of the phone models that are currently supported by
> > Replicant, which would be the best one to get?  My budget is high
> > enough to where device cost is not a factor.  I have a comrade to whom
> > I'm trying to teach the moral principles of Free Software as outlined
> > so wonderfully by the FSF, with the emphasis on the Four Freedoms, and
> > our current frontier is the phone.  The comrade in question is an
> > absolutely wonderful person, but she is very very non-technical: her
> > skills and interests in life are elsewhere.  Hence her relation to
> > technology will always be as an end user and nothing more.  But I
> > believe that the fundamental moral principles outlined by the FSF
> > should apply to everyone, not just us computer science geeks, and it
> > is vitally important to bring Free Software to the non-technical end
> > users.
> > 
> > Of course the free-est phone ever made is Neo Freerunner by Openmoko,
> > and I have one - but remember that here I'm trying to reach out to a
> > very non-technical end user.  Whether the motherboard inside that Neo
> > case is a GTA02 or a GTA04, my target audience will *not* like that
> > case and that small (in comparison to the typical mass-produced
> > smartphones) resistive touchscreen - again, compare with the typical
> > mass-produced devices of today with large capacitive touchscreens, and
> > some with slide-out keyboards too.
> > 
> > So with the GTA02 and GTA04 not being viable options, we are left with
> > the repertoire of several mass-produced smartphones which are currently
> > supported by Replicant, and I'm probing the wisdom of this mailing list
> > to help me decide which of those I should buy on ebay.  Obviously all
> > of these devices are plagued by limited hardware support because of
> > undocumented hw, proprietary firmwares, etc.  Which model suffers the
> > least from these problems?
> > 
> > I'm looking specifically to run Replicant 4.0, not any of the older
> > versions - I need to make the best possible impression on my target
> > audience.  Of the devices currently supported by this Replicant
> > version, which would give the best user experience to an uninitiated
> > and totally non-technical end user?  Which would draw the least number
> > of disappointed curses from such a user?
> > 
> > TIA for any insight,
> > SF

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Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer

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