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Years ago google was looking at doing a modular phone. It was basically a frame with modules on the back that contained the battery, storage, cameras, and even the processor. The screen was even replaceable in a similar way. I really want someone to do another project ara.
I remember that, I liked the idea except for Google being involved. The dream would be a fully modular phone running Linux. I don't ever see that becoming a reality, but hey.
Right, getting a Linux phone to work well still hasn't been achieved, let alone on modular hardware!
What do you mean by "running Linux"? Android is Linux.
By that logic MacOS is FreeBSD. Android has a modified Linux kernel, doesn't run GNU software or basically any Linux applications natively and it has a bunch of Google proprietary crap on top of it, when I mean "running Linux" I mean running a FOSS GNU/Linux distro.
There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that.
I know, but you're still at the mercy of Google's upstream codebase. Don't get me wrong, degooglefying Android is better than nothing but it's not the ideal we should be striving for.
I think that was called project aria or ara... something like that. A fully modular phone seems so great! I hope that concept is used someday like the Framework uses on their laptops for ports.