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"The most popular mobile operating system on the planet, Android, is already based on Linux, but with Google in charge of it, many consumers cannot depend on it for privacy. With that said, Purism is planning to fight the impossible fight against Android and iOS with the "Librem 5" smartphone. This is a device that will run a privacy-focused Linux-based OS called "Pure OS," but the hardware is wide open for any OS, really. Purism is trying to raise $1.5 million through crowdfunding, and earlier today, it reached a significant milestone -- $1 million! Maybe the fight isn't impossible after all..." - via BetaNews
In the news:
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436716
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090156
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/74cl80/purism_librem_5_has_surpassed_1000000_raised_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/75bjmp/librem_5_funded_hooray/
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pav on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:58AM
I've seen a Raspberry Pi based phone. It looked like a brick, and had poor battery life, but it worked. All you need is a battery, touch screen, modem. There are more powerful Pis available these days with lower power requirements, and I believe there are low power 4G modems also (the one I saw a few years ago was 3G). Last time I looked there was even a primitive OS and app suite someone had done. This would be an awesome nerd project, but I never actually got around to it.