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The challenge is that these days a phone is rarely used for calls or texts, but used with apps like WhatsApp or Teams or Slack or your mobile banking app, or things like that. And so there would need to be a critical mass of these apps to get me to switch.
Moat of those work via Waydroid I think, but I still haven't had the chance to actually try (Linux-phoneless here)
Thankfully with a lot of stuff like banking apps, a lot of applications actually provide a pretty decent mobile webui. so a browser with the right user agent will still work (albiet to a limited degree, don't expect nfc payments any time soon)
The reasons to use Linux phone are very similiar to reasons for not being used by WhatsApp.
Isn't WhatsApp just a texting and call app
Yes. But if 90% of your friends use it, and have groups in it where things are planned and organised, then by not having it you’re going to be missing out on a big chunk of things going on around you.
Year since there us no cross app texting.