• Belgdore@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Years ago google was looking at doing a modular phone. It was basically a frame with modules on the back that contained the battery, storage, cameras, and even the processor. The screen was even replaceable in a similar way. I really want someone to do another project ara.

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      1 year ago

      I remember that, I liked the idea except for Google being involved. The dream would be a fully modular phone running Linux. I don’t ever see that becoming a reality, but hey.

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        1 year ago

        Right, getting a Linux phone to work well still hasn’t been achieved, let alone on modular hardware!

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          By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn’t run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean “running Linux” I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro.

          • copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1 year ago

            There’s Android forks out there that avoid Google’s crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I’m less familiar with all that.

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              I know, but you’re still at the mercy of Google’s upstream codebase. Don’t get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it’s not the ideal we should be striving for.

    • TheLightItBurns@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think that was called project aria or ara… something like that. A fully modular phone seems so great! I hope that concept is used someday like the Framework uses on their laptops for ports.