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Step-by-step instructions to build a smartphone that is open-source, upgradeable, repairable, and Big Tech free (github.com)
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[–] cxtinac 7 points 1 year ago

Why the down votes on this? I had a quick look at the github repo and it looks pretty neat to me. I must be missing something...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a long history of people saying you can never have an open source phone because GSM radios and baseband stack or whatever need costly FCC approval. I also thought it was in the GSM spec that carriers had to be able to update some part of the baseband OS spontaneously. So I wonder how they got around that.