One more caveat: a few of the options listed below ship on their own hardware, most of the others will require you to own or buy specific devices. At the very end, we've included a hardware platform that supports numerous OSes, including many of the ones we mention here. You'll see that we've presented these OSes in descending order of convenience the ones at the top are widely supported and feature complete, and the ones at the bottom are more experimental. We didn't test every one of these systems for ourselves, but we highly recommend looking up videos that show the latest builds of these OSes running on various hardware to get a better idea of what to expect.
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Our goal isn't to rigorously test all of these OSes to the same extent we do Android and iOS, but rather introduce you to the world of alternative mobile experiences. Getting Started With an Open Source Mobile OS Even getting these OSes onto your phone may be more of a DIY task than most people are willing to undertake. You're likely to get some strange looks if you show up at the Verizon store asking if they can help with Ubuntu Touch. You also won't enjoy the kind of customer support you get with a mainstream device. You do need to be careful when installing apps not specifically vetted by Google or Apple, however, so proceed at your own risk. At least for Android-based devices, there are some alternative app stores and repositories such as Amazon's AppStore, APKMirror, and F-Droid. Most won't have access to all (or any of) the apps you're accustomed to-those live nearly exclusively on the Google Play store and the Apple App Store. Some have wildly different navigation schemes. Some words of warning here at the outset: none of these OSes will be like what Android and iOS users are accustomed to. It's easy to think of the world in terms of Android and iOS, but there are many alternatives out there, with varying degrees of usability. If you're looking to dramatically improve your privacy, take control of your personal information, or just want to keep using your perfectly good Nexus 5 for a few more years, the answer may be replacing your phone's operating system with a free, open-source alternative.
Why Make the Switch to an Alternative Mobile OS? Perhaps worst of all, most of these machines cost plenty, yet they aren't expected to function for more than a few years. Centralized app stores mean that useful apps can vanish in a heartbeat, while apps themselves use the sensors on these devices to monitor much of our lives. The jury is still out on that, but there's no question that smartphones, while they have dramatically changed our world, come with some serious drawbacks. Silicon Valley has long preached that technology, not truth, will set you free.
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