Yes, I probably should have addressed that in my article, but my primary focus was on whether Linux phones can grow from being a miniscule niche for nerds like me to being a real alternative for normal people to Android and iOS phones. I would guesstimate that around 10,000 Linux phones were sold in 2025, which represented 0.0008% of the global smartphone market that year. The question I was asking is whether we can get to 0.1% or even 1% of the market. Rereading the article, I see that I wasn't very good about explaining the focus of the article. There was so much technical stuff to cover, and I got a little lost in all that.

If you look through the list of recommended devices for Nura (formerly postmarketOS), the only one that has full software support for all the hardware is the Librem 5, and the second best supported phone is the PinePhone.

The rest of the phones are dated Android devices which all have significant functions that don't work correctly. The processor with the best support is the Snapdragon 845 from 2018 in the OnePlus 6/6T, POCO F1 and SHIFT6mq, and all of those devices have issues that a geek like me can accept (like downloading code from github and manually compiling to get a partially functional camera), but it isn’t really an option for ordinary people.