In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain … ...

You probably won’t be able to buy a PinePhone that ships with open source modem firmware anytime soon – Pine64’s Lukasz Erecinski says “various legal constraints” make that unlikely.

Since then, developers Biktor and Konrad have continued working on their software, and it’s now pretty close to being a fully functional replacement for the PinePhone’s default modem firmware.

And Pine emphasizes that they neither pre-install nor officially endorse this firmware, and PinePhones will keep shipping with the vendor-supplied modem firmware image instead. That said, ...