What is the Linux of cell phones?

submitted by In-the-clouds from (self.AskSaidIt)

On the PC, we have three major competing desktop operating systems, from: Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. Only Linux is free. On the cell phone, we have Google, Apple, and ....?

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Android is linux based, but we also have true linux phones from Pine https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

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We should also probably point out that Android is fee and open source. It is just that cell phone manufactures, like Samsung, largely lock you out of it and stuff it with malware, bloatware, and telemetry that spies on you. Then a second layer of the same is added by your cell phone carrier, such as Verizon and AT&T. The resulting bastardization of Android is incapable of doing basic tasks and constantly spying on you.