Not a near-term solution, but the Free Software Foundation just announced the LibrePhone project!
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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do not get a pinephone as a daily driver. battery life is like an hour, and its incredibly underpowered (i say that as a fairphone 5 daily driver). i cant speak for any other linux phones as i havent used them, but i plan to make a conserted effort to switch when fdroid stops working
It depends where you live.
If in the USA, then you’re fucked. VOLTE is required for calls and no one really seemingly has this concretely working.
If you’re in Europe, possibly other parts of the world (I shamefully don’t know as much about their cellular configs) you can pick up a one plus 6t and put Linux on it. There’s sailfish, postmarketos, or mobian. Good luck
You can use VoIP if you have a cell data connection.
As in ready to go phones? Not really no. There are Linux phones like the pine phone, but they are not really ready for prime time in any way.
sailfish os says its Linux based and supports android abi 33, but they’re Europe only. I’ve not heard much about them other than they support old Sony Xperia phones so can’t really comment if they’re more usable than the pinephone.
I think the Fairphone 6 has an option to have e/os preinstalled?
Yes I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I'm really happy with it!
Stuff like PostmarketOS looks interesting. The new Furilabs phone doesn't sound too bad either.
If you have the money, consider donating $5 to a couple Linux mobile projects. Small donations here and there can be the difference needed to make Linux mobile a viable option.
I have already been researching this very topic myself, and I'm thinking I'm either going GraphenOS or off to Apple's walled garden. I'm hesitant to try something like the ONEPLUS, as they are running a reskinned Android which is the thing I hate about Samsung, and why I'd never buy another.
As long as you verify the model of OnePlus you use works in your country, you could give them a try with lineage OS. My OnePlus 5T ran it great. However, in Canada Rogers just recently nerfed their Network so that my 5T no longer worked -- 4g, LTE or 5g required now, and voLTE on Rogers apparently wasn't compatible with OnePlus models. I'm trying to work up the courage to install graphene OS on my new pixel 9.
There's !linuxphones@lemmy.ca / !linuxphones@lemmy.ml which often have some interesting chats about projects like PostMarketOS. I've not seen anything that is a viable replacement for a "daily driver" smartphone yet, but if you're keen to tinker then there's probably some cool stuff to try out.
What's everyone's opinion on LineageOS these days?