[mrweasel]

The notch is a bit silly, given that you have the bezel at the bottom, but I guess it could be ergonomics.

I believe the phone is designed around feedback for customers/potential customers. Which tells me that other people have very different phone usage from my own. I would have asked for a much smaller phone and a €200 price tag. The processor and even a shitty camera doesn't really bother me. I just want a cheap phone that can run like five apps (sadly one is the type that won't work, i.e. payments), and not run Android or iOS.

[storus]

There is a huge supply chain surplus of notch displays as nobody wants them so I guess they decided that "real open source" folks don't care about design and bought them for pennies.

[Markoff]

> I just want a cheap phone that can run like five apps (sadly one is the type that won't work, i.e. payments), and not run Android or iOS.

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Community

you can certainly buy some of the supported smaller devices (e.g. Pixel 3a) and change battery for new

sadly basically nothing newer than 2020

[mrbn100ful]

Buy a Xperia XA2 on Ebay for 180€ + 25€ for SFOS license.