Sailfish is not, and never will be, available in the USA. The reason why is because US carriers do device whitelisting: if the handset is not approved by the carrier, it cannot connect. And they're not going to approve anything but iOS and Android.

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nextos a day ago | parent | next [-]

Plenty of SFOS users run the OS on Sony devices, where it has official support, I don't see a major problem. T-Mobile seems to have no problem with them.

There are of course caveats, but with a larger userbase things would get ironed out. Still, in the Sailfish forum there are American users that employ their devices as daily drivers.

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mindslight a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Keep on hacking at basebands. In the US, changing a device's IMEI is only illegal when done with intent to obtain unauthorized service. Using a phone of your choice on your side of the radio wave demarc falls squarely under Carterphone.

(Never mind clunkier but more straightforward solutions like a libre device/OS using wifi from a mifi)

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bitwize a day ago | parent [-]

Ah, but once the baseband is hacked, the FCC may declare it out of compliance with its regulations and thus, illegal to transmit!

	▲	mindslight a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but that seems much harder to notice/enforce than blanket blocks. And while you could always get singled out for enforcement, that won't necessarily stop group momentum.