Due to privacy concerns, I don't use
anything by Google if I can avoid it... That includes Google's Android.
I know it's
probably a "pipe dream", but I'd
love to see someone do a
non-Android version of something like the Unihertz... Maybe using one of the
many Open Source mobile device operating systems currently being worked on (postmarketOS, UBPorts, etc).
Even better - and probably
less likely for various reasons - would be to see someone make
alternative firmware for "BlackBerry" smartphones ("classic" or BlackBerry 10, it wouldn't matter)... But there's a
long list of reasons why that probably
wouldn't happen.
So much wasted potential over at HMD Global (who manufacturers "Nokia" cell phones these days)... Nokia have a
ridiculously big portfolio of previous mobile devices that could quite
easily be adapted for a modern environment with minimal effort, yet HMD Global have done nothing of the sort.
The "
Communicator" range of Nokia smartphones is the most
obvious example here of course, but there are other product types that could have varying levels of success, if updated for a modern environment and marketed correctly...
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Just a thought - I wonder if there's been any work to get (the Open Source version of) webOS or one of the
many Open Source mobile device operating systems currently being worked on (postmarketOS, UBPorts, etc) running on former Palm prē / Palm Pixi series devices?
They had keyboards, and it would surely be a lot easier to make these work with a modern operating system... Might have to look into that.