@neil @furilabs thanks for raising awareness on this Neil; it's always a pleasure to have OSS mobile alternatives to the horror show of mainline device providers.
Ranting Ensues
I'm on phone #5 just in the past year, and I'm very tired of not having full control over such a critical requirement of modern life. Vendor lock-in and non-portable cell numbers have monetarily induced an obscene waste of resources, not including the time and occasional impossibility involved with account updates and 2FA-SMS failures when one loses access to a phone number; to which I'm currently on the third phone number.
It's easy to give up on the cell phone fight... to just stop caring. At this point I use a SIP desk phone, can't bother memorizing the current cell number — who knows how long it will last — probably longer if I have a reliable OSS phone at least.
Service LTE/5G over the past year:
- T-Mobile
- Verizon
- GoogleFi
- Trac
Hardware over the same time:
- iPhone (hardware failure)
- Pixel 9 Fold (twice, hardware failure)
- TCL (twice, different e-ink models, functional but not ideal)