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I’m seriously considering ditching my iPhones for any Nokia dumb phone. But what we really need is a mobile OS that is really free with no marketing BS, ideally BSD derived.

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Like this one? https://pureos.net/ Running on a phone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Pinephone for a cheaper, less performant alternative: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...

Unfortunately (since otherwise I’d be using one) both are unusable as practical replacements for Android or iOS.

Once calls/texts work with 100% reliability and it isn't slow as hell I'm going all in :)

Yeah - I don’t even care about calls that much.

Texts, not slow as hell, decent battery life, would do it for me.

You mean Ubuntu touch?

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