Google isn't the one you truly need to worry about spying with service provider ROMs. But it does run Linux and could absolutely do this, albeit possibly with annoyances like sound skips or drops or etc when overloaded (you'd definitely have to keep it minimal.) Though that would possibly be an advantage in regards to a minimalist device like a phone should be. I mean, to be clear, yes, the RPi Zero is very weak hardware-wise. The Pico is actually the exception to the entire line in that it's basically an Arduino rather than a true Raspberry Pi. I do not want some retail junk with some Android that is impossible to remove so Google can continue spying.I'm a bit confused on the first part. The best part I think is that phone calls across a normal 4G network can be made right from the O.S. Hopefully some future Raspberry Pi Pico or Pi Zero that is fast enough to run a whole operating system could make this physically smaller and thus more manageable. We should utilize that.Įzst036 said:I like this a lot. Modern smartphones are sort of already mini computers at this point with almost as much power as a very weak laptop. Not to mention just how limited things are as a whole. Modern apps have had to build up on top of things built up on top of other things and it actually has reached the point that resources are being wasted in even simple operations. The way apps actually act is very limited out of necessity with simplistic methods and APIs. All these systems we're using now were made in the early 2000s for very weak devices that barely could even run an OS. We need an OEM to release one that's very open and not try to turn it super commercial (like a certain ONE did.) But also projects to get a good Linux or similar port going need to take off.Īctually, I feel like for a while now it has been time to move from super limited, super embedded operating systems where just running apps at all basically wrecks battery life and murders the CPU. Even among those who do though, driver support can be an issue. Many are well known and well supported hardware, but just don't have sufficient interest among those who can do lots of stuff with them. In fact, it's really stupid we don't have more openness even in Android phones as it is. Honestly, we need more fully open phone devices. In other words, to get voice on almost any real service you're probably going to have to pay for data and also pay for some VoIP service such as Google Voice or whatever. Along with probably exponentially more devices off the list than actually are on it. This means they had to implement a system of license checks that basically check your device against whitelists of which companies have paid for the "extra feature" for their specific phones to promise better voice quality (aka just using 4G at all for voice.) Needless to say, any device like this will not be in that whitelist. Since they wanted to be sneaky about it, they charge companies the licenses, not users. Problem is, since service providers were allowed to treat VoLTE as a luxury feature not available to everything, they turned it into a complete mess of licenses and checks. VoLTE was treated as a "luxury feature." Now that 3G services are shut down, that "luxury feature" is now as basic as it gets. It was deemed "good enough" for all 4G phones to fall back to 3G for voice services. It should have been standardized (I think this is the FCC's domain? Not sure) and made available to all devices in a minimal form, but it's not. An interesting idea, but I perceive a HUGE problem right off the bat: the cluster-F that is VoLTE.
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