@Mike Linksvayer Yeah, unfortunately the cost is keeping me back right now too. And dismayed by throw-away culture of mobile devices. Funny, the current state of laptop security is maybe the opposite: the most secure option is a cheap-to-acquire, but quite hard to set up, but semi-pricey again if you get it preinstalled, really old and outdated laptop. (Then again, if you go with Replicant, the laptop and phone setup aren't too far away from each other, but given age of OS Replicant is currently built on, not sure it's more secure.)

Maybe indicative of the comparative approaches of "grounds up community developed" free software communities vs "throw-it-over-the-wall" options.

Here's a question: if Android as a "throw-it-over-the-wall-quasi-solution" for freedom didn't exist, would "mobile freedom" be in a better or worse place? I'm not sure myself, though I suspect something borrowing from maemo/tizen might have carried on... we had Debian on a phone with the n900 with an incredible interface, and maybe that could have continued. But it's possible it would have just died also there and we'd have nothing...