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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?
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What are the chances we get custom built/open source phones?
https://learn.adafruit.com/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-cellphone/overview
This thing comes to mind. It's not exactly an attractive phone.
That's closer to what I was thinking. That is pretty neat though, now we just need to make it smaller and more modular, and I'm not sure of there is a CDMA option as well.
Closes one I can think of is, The Fair Phone https://www.fairphone.com
Repairable, not free
Nearly zero