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by realusername 1085 days ago
> There is still a significant portion of Android that is perfectly usable in an open fashion

There's not a single phone on earth running AOSP, you can't really compare it to Ubuntu. It's not made for tinkering or user ownership.
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smoldesu 1085 days ago
> There's not a single phone on earth running AOSP

Sure there are: https://developer.android.com/topic/generic-system-image/

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realusername 1084 days ago
Can you point me a reference to a single phone? A phone running AOSP with open-source kernel drivers and not a single Google closed-source binary. Good luck to find that.

The only project I know about doing that is Replicant and targets ancient phones. It's also a community run project, none of those phone came fully open from the factory either.

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