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Step-by-step instructions to build a smartphone that is open-source, upgradeable, repairable, and Big Tech free (github.com)
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[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a long history of people saying you can never have an open source phone because GSM radios and baseband stack or whatever need costly FCC approval. I also thought it was in the GSM spec that carriers had to be able to update some part of the baseband OS spontaneously. So I wonder how they got around that.