Any thoughts on building your own phone?
Recently I had the idea of building my own phone with a Raspberry Pi. I started searching and I found this article where someone had already done this. Unfortunately this article is from 2014 and I can’t find a newer article with a functional phone with SIM card. At some point this guy says he’s running Raspbian. Are there mobile desktops for Debian? Mobian doesn’t look very real.I don’t want Android although Lineage/etc might be acceptable… (Although now I’m thinking of putting Droidian on an old phone…)
Anyway does anybody have any info, thoughts, or advice on this? Am I a total idiot for wanting to attempt this?
Is mobian still maintained? I had a quick look a couple days ago and their last blog post was 3+ years ago.
I have a pine phone that I haven’t touched in years. I’d love to daily drive it.
October 2025 by my reckoning.
https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2025/10/new-stable-rotating-keys/
You know what… I think I was thinking of Armbian.