After Pete Foth’ pointed out that I had unintentionally hijacked his ‘Unofficial Iode 5 builds thread’ I’ve decided to move the post to it’s own dedicated thread. Could just end up talking to myself again. You never know! 
This was the post that started it:-
It’s like I said before I’m retired now and need to find things with which to occupy my time. I believe that iode is something worthy of promotion, but given the total lack of interest within the iode community of finding some actual users for it in the real world, I guess truth is that in reality all I’m attempting to do is extend the time it takes before it inevitably ends up going the way of DivestOS. Same as all the other ‘great’ OSS projects.
…and this was the last…
'This thing with samsung’s I find surprising, although as I pointed out, I’ve never had one and consequently no little if anything about them, but can’t help noticing that iode officially supports 13 different models. If they are as incompatible as they sound why bother with them? As for Fairphone’s they are about as rare as dual sim XA2’s and seem to have more than their share of incompatibility hiccups if the n-umber of users reporting problems on here is anything to go by. So I’ll just stick with the Sony’s at least for now.
At the moment the only positive on the horizon is the Brax 3 and I admit that I was seriously considering putting my name down for one, but I’m not a fan of Mediatek processors and when I looked at the spec’s it would make more sense for me to buy an LOS supported newer model Sony (Xp 1 or 5), that has been well cared for and install iode on that. Just hope that Brax buyers don’t think same. At least the Brax will bring new iode users in and the price will appeal to younger people that want to buy new but can’t afford the latest mainstream flagship.
Sony has to be the best option, not only for my current efforts but for a longer term strategy maybe. I need to give it some thought. Alpha just mentioned pixels I notice as I’m writing this response and although I agree with the general sentiment the problem with them is that the type of people that already buy/own them are unlikely to be open to the idea of moving over to OSS. Also you would have to be techie to even realise that a pixel running OSS is even a possibility. Very counterintuitive!’
