Hackers develop open source firmware for the PinePhone modem, use it to make phone calls
The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems like Manjaro, postmarketOS, Mobian, or Ubuntu Touch. But the phone isn’t 100-percent open hardware: its modem ships relies on proprietary, closed-source firmware.
A team of independent developers are working to provide an alternative – and it looks like they’re getting closer all the time.
Developer @biktorgj has posted a short video showing a PinePhone making a phone call using Voice over LTE without using proprietary “blobs.”
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