[rektide]

In general I really like that this is a low-end device, affordable. I feel like phone prices have gotten totally out of control, but meanwhile we have very low cost pretty excellent chips available. It feels like ARM has let their low end cores languish, which seems to be changing, and I'm hoping we see some natural, logical follow ups to this phone in ~2023.

That said, Snapdragon 845 is inching towards becoming a good general purpose Linux platform, with decent upstream support, and some phone platforms supported. Alas, like the rest of the Android ecosystem, only like 2% of the phones made with this chipset have unlocked bootloaders & will be able to be good long term devices that are well supported by mainline kernels. The rest of these devices are already running out the end of their support life, either no longer getting security updates or real soon about to end support.

I feel like once a device manufacturer no longer offers security support, then is when Right to Repair laws have a moral, ethical, legal obligation to step in & demand the bootloader be unlocked, so it's possible for owners to maintain their devices, given that the manufacturer wont.

[danielEM]

What phone platforms you mean?