• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    There is no option. There is too much variation in the various phone chips for the hardware hacking community to reverse engineer more than a bare handful. And as soon as the hardware has been reverse engineered, it will never be used again by a manufacturer making the exercise largely pointless.

    Add to that, the fact that Qualcomm actively discourages long term support of their chips….

    • kronarbob@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That’s why Fairphone choose a QCM6490 for the fairphone 5. It’s far from being the best, but it has longer term support than mainstream oriented SOC.

      Since the SOC will probably be enough for most of users, it’s not a bad option I guess.