Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?

[Nick]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 septembre 2013 à 09:48 +0100, Nick a écrit :
> > There is the OpenFWWF project, though that doesn't seem to be 
> 
> I seriously doubt it is that easy or even doable and my expectations of
> ever seeing a free firmware for these chips are close to zero.

Ah, that's a pity.

> On the other hand, ath9k_htc has a fully free firmware, released by
> Qualcomm, so it's the only WiFi chip that could permit having a free
> wifi firmware on an embedded device (read: phone, tablet, SBC).

Is this used on any mobile device at the moment? Is there an easy
way to find out what devices use a certain chip (I'm guessing
not..)?