Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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The Paperweight Dilemma // Mobian's Blog (blog.mobian.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not a good news for the original PP. I personally don't use Mobian and I just use megi's kernel, but I understand their concerns.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yeah 😑 A very large point of Linux mobile is to get away from vendor specific kernels and non-upstream drivers, so that devices can be run on mainline kernels easily.

It does sound like the situation with the Pinephone Pro is better in that regard, but why does it have to be so darn overpriced? 😒

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I could handle an overpriced phone if the device were viable for day-to-day use. Unfortunately the battery life is so compromised that even if we had a totally flawless mobile OS running on it, it still wouldn't work out as a phone.

In this case it's better to think of it as a development platform.

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