Does it run lineage?

[gomp@lemmy.ml]

Does it run lineage? Any other FOSS, third party OS? No? Hard pass.

[sonalder@lemmy.ml]

iodéOS, and support for UbuntuTouch

[infeeeee@lemm.ee]

iodéOS is powered by “LineageOS”

https://iode.tech/iodeos/

So yes, it also has microG. So it's the same thing again, as /e/.

[zerush@lemmy.ml]

It does, in it's early stage eg. Ubuntu Touch, but I think there isn't any problem to run other Distros too, at least Android itself is Linux (stock Android is only bad because it's contamined with Google APIs) and Linage OS is an Android fork.

[reversalhatchery@beehaw.org]

if it runs linux distros, that does not mean it can run android

[gomp@lemmy.ml]

Android is not linux, at least not in the practical sense that hardware and software compatible with one of the two doesn't run on the other (from a philosophical standpoint it might very well be - I don't care) and this phone does not run ubuntu touch. Maybe it might run ubuntu touch in the future, but I found no promise like "it will run ubuntu touch on release" in the indiegogo page and, needless to say, there is no mention of brax on the ubuntu touch website.

This phone will run iodeos, which seems to be a lineage knokoff fork that, unlike lineage, requires you to trust a for-profit company which thinks it's reasonable to charge monthly subscriptions for access to some ublock and/or pihole blocklists (please explain me what else the "premium" options are), list which in all likelihood will only work from their "iode browser" (well, there might also be an extension for ff, but I didn't find it).

I can't say for certain, but both brax and iode look like two more of those initiatives whose primary goal is to extract money from the less tech-savvy part of the privacy community.