It's called the Precursor and its advertised as an open hardware, RISC-V, System-On-Chip phone. Sounds promising...

The way I prefer is to use a device with Replicant so far without F-Droid as it is the same: F-Droid is incompatible with the FSDG for distributing proprietary software and services in their repositories. The best way of course is not to use any kind of mobile device with phone-capabilities, or course. So all in all you have to make some kind of compromise and speaking about that neither Librem nor Pinephone are the way for me. For Purism, read here: https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic.php?id=276

While probably not exceptionally helpful, the closest experience I have with
mobiles and replacing Android, is a Goofle Pixel XL. I managed to avoid bricking
it into a paperweight;  thusly flashing on it the only ethically and hardware friendly
acceptable option I could find, /e/ (https://e.foundation/).

I assume there are probably backdoors in the hardware somewhere, but I'll trust
eFoundation over Goofle. On a side note, it was and is kind of exciting
to know that Goofle's (presumed) previous flagship, has been liberated, however
little that may be.

i never used one of those and i dont have a smarthone but i would go against using /e/OS cause of that one acount for everything and using the cloud, and i would suggest https://postmarketos.org/ with a pinephone

I assume there are probably backdoors in the hardware somewhere, but I'll trust
eFoundation over Goofle. On a side note, it was and is kind of exciting
to know that Goofle's (presumed) previous flagship, has been liberated, however
little that may be.

I've heard of Linux-based phones like the Librem and Pine phone.
As interesting as they sound, don't their distros use systemD and non-free blobs?

Okay, PureOS is libre but it uses systemD and Purism itself is hiding some skeletons in its closet, right?

I recently bought a refurbished Galaxy S2 to replace my broken iPhone
and manually installed Replicant so now I have a libre phone.
Maybe a Linux phone is better but my new Replicant phone is certainly a cheaper step in the right direction for me.

But putting that aside, what can anyone say about Linux phones and how they compare
to Replicant or even other custom Android ROMS like Lineage and GrapheneOS?