Pine64, maker of cheap Linux laptops, may be making a cheap Linux phone

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This sounds epic, I hope they pull it off and can keep it in stock.

Supposedly this Purism phone is shipping in April https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-21/

[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

oh, shiny! i am a late adopter (nokia 100, baby), but i wouldnt mind to upgrade to one of these eventually. whichever gives me more control and privacy..

[–]Mnemonic[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah the Purism one has hardware switches to microphone and cameras and some separation on the networking from the rest of the main hardware (haven't looked in to it too much).

The Pine64 is more a proof off concept, to inspire more people to make Linux phones.

[–]maheshhegde 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it can be.

I would rather point 2 things out.

  1. Android compatibility will surely help because new phones will offer a superset of that functionality. Sailfish's is a proprietary layer but I don't think it is hard to develop anbox further.

  2. Develop some exclusive apps for these phones (not very hard, port some nice Linux apps). Use a brilliant window manager config and people will be impressed.

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Nokia 100 looks nice. You've gotten like 5 years of use out of the thing? nice.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yes. and the battery life is still unreal. maybe i will just keep using it :-)

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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