Introduction Owning a popular Android phone comes with an itch to customize it fully if you happen to be a tech-savvy user or a pro user. We are not talking…
System implementation /e/OS or the e-Foundation, founded by Gael Duval, has made it its goal to develop a de-Googled Android ecosystem. This sounds contradictory at first, since Google has brought…
The basis for the Android operating system is the Linux kernel. Its development began in 1991 by Linus Torvalds as a hobby project to understand his personal computer, but also…
I thought of it, my main focus was on major social problems with the high influence and an almost monopolistic market position of Google and its dominant product Android OS,…
Fairphone B.V. has so far released three models of its Fairphone. The company exists since January 2013, a good seven years. The goal of the company is to produce durable,…
Most smartphones use chips with the architecture Advanced RISC Machines, or ARM for short. ARM issues licenses to the chip manufacturers who produce chips based on this architecture. In order…
Planned obsolescence Obsolescence describes the process of a device becoming unusable for its original functionality, usually caused by aging, often abbreviated as EOL, End of Life. In the case of…
As an everyday object and replacement for computers, our smartphone is an important tool for most of the daily needs in lives of many people to the point that it…
MicroG is a free and open replacement of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries. Wait! Is not Android an open-source mobile OS already? Yes and no. While, Android…
