Submitted by whipskid in Privacy

The Pinephone is an inexpensive phone with hardware designed to run Desktop/Mobile GNU Linux distributions and environments. Only $150 USD. Will hopefully attract developers to port desktop Linux apps to a mobile UI.

Purism's Librem 5 is a $600 phone with Open Source hardware, fast and modular CPU parts, designed to run Desktop/Mobile GNU Linux distros. Focused on privacy, security, transparency. Has hardware switches to turn off GPS, cellular, WiFi, all radios, and Camera.

Rob Braxman (The Internet Privacy Guy) and Gardiner Bryant (The Linux Gamer) each have many videos on their YouTube channels about these upcoming phones. While developers have been working to install Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS on phone hardware originally intended to run Android OS for many years, GNU/Linux development and adoption on mobile has been very slow, hopefully these upcoming phones will be followed by a few other companies to release GNU-intended and open source hardware for mobile, and developers will make for GNU to become a viable option for an Android replacement.

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