sure, and for the iphone crowd i wouldnt recommend it
I'm the using desktop Linux for decades crowd, and it's not good enough to replace Android on my phone.
phone makes phone calls, camera does camera things
See my previous comment. The camera does not do camera things, even after I fixed the permissions problem for /dev/video* that produced the initial error message. It's a bit like the experience of trying to run Linux on a laptop (other than a Thinkpad) 20 years ago.
what exactly do you need?
Bare minimum:
- A camera. Doesn't need to be good, does need to take pictures that roughly convey reality.
- Signal. This is my main means of (tele)communicating with people important to me. There's Flare, but that needs to pair with a device running the official client (or maybe a fork).
- Whatsapp. I don't love it, but it's hard to avoid.
- A web browser and mail client
PostmarketOSNura has passible options there. - A VOIP solution for a USA phone number that can do calls and SMS. I use Google Voice now because it's free; I might pay a small amount for an alternative.
- Turn by turn navigation for car and bicycle.
Some things might work on Waydroid, which pretty much runs LineageOS in a VM. It was fussy last I looked at it, and that suggests the obvious option of running LineageOS on hardware, which I do.
hardware keeps getting more hostile towards [GrapheneOS]
They recently announced a partnership with Motorola.