Linux Phones

Both factually incorrect and besides the point.

You can use waydroid to use android and its app ecosystem until the Linux app ecosystem catches up, and there's work being done on an android translation layer to just run the apps without the full android OS running.

The problem right now is the hardware and drivers, there's isn't many phones out there that 100% work. There's a few commercial options like Librem and FuriLabs phones but other than that, most of the options from postmarketOS have something not working like calls, or camera, or audio, etc. The fairphone 5 seems well supported by Ubuntu touch right now, but if I'm reading the page right, Ubuntu touch doesn't support VoLTE yet, so I can't use it in the US.

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp5/release/noble/

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Global issues

The issues listed below are present in most or all of the devices depending on the technology they are built on.

Incoming, outgoing calls

Calling over VoLTE is not supported, please check that this is not a requirement in your country.

Halium and Legacy ports"

There’s the FOSS alternative Fsnotes.

Lol no, the pinephone had an allwinter processor that would have been fine in ~2014, cant speak to the specs of the pinephone pro, but I would imagine they were better.

The issues with the model I had were mostly hardware related. The expectation of "it just works" are being completed for the linux desktop enviroments now-ish. I have not played with my pinephone in a long while, but linux phones should still be a few years behind.