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What is the advantage of this over just taking a phone and installing lineageos on it?
The kickstarter suggests that the phone comes all googly as default
It comes with googly as default, but they provide a custom rom without google.
The advantage is:
Its finally a phone with a keyboard.
They already existed, no idea how many of them can be flashed to lineageos though. Not sure why someone would want a physical keyboard either, no doubt there is a reason though.
I think a lot of people are put off by flashing their own phone, so providing the option to purchase this already degoogled would be nice.
I'm more interested in a non-smart phone that still has an on screen keyboard, they seem a bit rarer.
The existing ones were mostly budget models with cheap hardware and terrible software support. I miss the Nokia E71 which had a similar format, I rarely watch videos and typing on touch screen keyboards still sucks, so I would happily give up some screen real estate for a physical KB. I would love one of these, especially if it had semi-official Graphene support.