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AOSP is open source, but phone vendors and google themselves don't provide source code for the numerous proprietary applications and closed source binary blob drivers used in the platform. the implementation of android on phones is no more open source than mac OSX, which happens to use kernel sources from the darwin project.
[QUOTE=nintenman1;48836358]AOSP is open source, but phone vendors and google themselves don't provide source code for the numerous proprietary applications and closed source binary blob drivers used in the platform. the implementation of android on phones is no more open source than mac OSX, which happens to use kernel sources from the darwin project.[/QUOTE] This isn't anything the OS can save you from. This is stuff embedded in hardware firmware.
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