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24 alternatives to PinePhone
The Hacker Friendly Linux Phone with PostmarketOS
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PinePhone launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into an evdev input device. You might be interested in this driver if you - prefer the slow pace of dialing over typing numbers with your numpad, - want to bring your old rotary phone into the digital era, - are an educator looking for a simple example driver with a VM-based end-to-end development & test environment (no real hardware needed) - have another creative use case in mind! This driver was my introduction to embedded Linux years ago—and ultimately led to my career. However, it remained unfinished and unpublished until now.…
2025 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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A mashup for finding repairable smartphones that are supported by custom Android ROMs.
2020 · sustaphones.com · its alternatives →
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(TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png) While digging around in drawers that hadn't been touched for decades, I found a wonderful piece of history. The Palm Treo 600 [1] was the Mercedes-Benz of the cellphone 10 years ago, and I was lucky enough to rediscover one.[2] So I decided to restore it to working order, slapping in a T-Mobile SIM[3] and a fresh battery. It worked! It could browse the Internet[4], send/receive text messages[5], make phone calls...[6] The onboard browser even passed Acid1[7,8] and could do some level of JavaScript![9] Unfortunately, most websites…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Nexus 6P▲97The new phone from Google with Android 6.0 Marshmallow
2015 · store.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · kevinboone.net · its alternatives →
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GrapheneOS▲116Open source mobile OS focused on privacy and security.
2019 · grapheneos.org · its alternatives →
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I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. I wrote it up here: https://tmzt.github.io/blog/a-modern-port-of-linux-to-a-ten-... You can see the code here: https://github.com/tmzt/linux-stable-msm-dtsi
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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LineageOS▲131The successor to CyanogenMod, an Android Distribution
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SweepSouth▲102Cleaning services platform for emerging markets
2015 · sweepsouth.com · its alternatives →
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BlackPhone▲73A smpartphone that promises secure data transfer always.
2014 · silentcircle.com · its alternatives →
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News on mobile for the Spanish-speaking world
2017 · androidlatino.co · its alternatives →
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Maru OS▲9A full desktop PC in a phone (only available for Nexus 5)
2016 · maruos.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · furilabs.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · hackster.io · its alternatives →
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