Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. Seems it was too good to be true.
The phone looks interesting abut the other devices almost look too good to be true, like potential vaporware.
Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. Seems it was too good to be true.
The phone looks interesting abut the other devices almost look too good to be true, like potential vaporware.
That wouldn’t be dumb, but I get your point.
https://dumbwireless.com/collections/phones
How many of these do you suppose run Android. The operating system is listed in the specs. Do you suppose they are not correct?
The Dumbphone 2 listed is a TCL Flip 2 which runs modified AOSP. Functionally, the Flip 2 is a dumbphone, though if you’re willing to put in the elbow grease you can install apps through adb and install a cursor to use them. The screen resolution and modified OS make many apps unusable though. I was able to get Firefox, Jerboa, and Molly (Signal) working on mine though. It was definitely better to tether to a tablet or laptop as you said.
I think the Sunbeam phones, Keyphone, and Light phone are AOSP as well, with varying openness.
A lot of manufacturers just use gutted AOSP so they don’t have to write network, UI, notification, etc. stacks from scratch. If not Android it’s usually Mocor or KaiOS
Thanks. That helps a lot. I think I need to dig a bit deeper, because I’m sure even AOSP is still linked to Google in some form.