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10 years of Project Ara: The modular smartphone that never was (and why I still care today)

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10 years of Project Ara: The modular smartphone that never was (and why I still care today)

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Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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Google's modular smartphone, Project Ara, is 10 years old, and it has me feeling sad and old

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Just depends on Google instead of degoogling like GrapheneOS
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  You can run CalyxOS on it. Or iodéOS or e OS.
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    I know, and they are both not fully degoogled. Kuketz blog (German)
    
    See the link for a very detailed analysis of Custom ROMs. Maybe it is understandable with machine translation.

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