Let's start off with mentioning that both these new phones are great steps forward for Linux. While they will probably not beat Android and iOS in popularity, they will at least give Linux power users a device that can be called a Linux phone instead of the usual "technically it's| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
In their December update, Pine64 announced the PineTab2, which is the successor to their PineTab from 2018. As a major change, the PineTab2 upgrades the slow A53-based A64 SoC with an A55-based Rockchip RK3566, the same chip that was used for the Quartz64, and that helped to mainline this chip| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
Our first post ever on this website was about the GNOME Project "getting ready" to adapt their environment to the growing demand of responsive, mobile-friendly Linux devices. That was back in 2019, before libhandy (Gtk mobile library) was considered stable, and when Librem 5s and PinePhones were less| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
Around one year ago, Sipeed announced initial support for Android on their RISC-V development boards, hinting that a first functional prototype of RISC-V phone could be coming within one or two years. Although Android is now supported by several development kits based on this architecture, as can be seen in| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
The dream of an HTML-based operating system is nothing new, and in fact, something we have seen since the early 2000s. With the Internet exploding in popularity and complexity, it has always been tempting to think of browsers as convenient graphical renderers, and CSS as the ultimate markup language for| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
In some sense, 2022 has been resembling the long-memed Year of the Linux Desktop. Although this sounds like some cult's prophetic rubbish, by looking at the success of the Linux desktop in very empirical terms an improvement of the last couple of years becomes clearly noticeable. The Steam| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
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The Pixel 3A was released in 2019 by Google as a cheaper alternative to the Pixel 4, and is powered by a Snapdragon 670 processor coupled with 4GB RAM, an OLED display, and a 3000mAh battery. Being somewhat popular among the developer community, it was two years ago that| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
So far, cameras on Linux phones have been known for their extremely basic results. Lacking good sensors, premium optics, and most importantly good post-processing capabilities, the PinePhone's, extremely basic sensor cannot often offer the shots one would expect. Even on the Librem 5, which uses a somewhat better| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
As a software developer on the go, one of the very first use cases that I started investigating after installing Linux on my first tablet was that of using a portable device as a secondary display for another Linux machine. Ideally, this would happen wirelessly (or wired, if that involved| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
As we tend to mention often, cameras are one of the areas where Linux phones are often seen as lacking behind their Android alternatives. This is partly due to extreme fragmentation of sensor drivers, with most mainlined devices not having any kind of Linux camera support, and just partly due| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
Ubuntu has been traditionally considered the most popular and user-friendly distro, and its core principles inspired a stream of derivate distributions in the past years. Although many users are happy with the general architecture, Ubuntu owner Canonical has sometimes been criticized for some technical choices, such as pushing most parts| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
After SXMO, the DWM-on-phone mod that became popular for its practical minimalism with the PinePhone, and the lesser known ExpidusOS XFCE-based shell, many of the traditional lightweight Linux desktops are receiving touch-friendly adaptions. A relatively new project, AVMultiPhone, is loosely based on the popular MATE desktop, which continues the GNOME| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
The second part of our in-depth review of Purism's latest ultraportable: How does the king of libre hardware compete with the premium laptop market?| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
A common point in the Linux community is that escaping the walled garden of ecosystems like Android or iOS is already a means to higher security. Having no contact with Google or Apple servers ever again, nor cloud providers ever snooping on your private files or contacts again is a| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
Update 27/06/2022: The PocketReform has been officially announced! More information can be found at this page. In the last year, we have seen an unexpected revival of handheld computers (or PDAs) with hardware keyboard, all of which based on Linux: the PinePhone with its keyboard case, the GPD| TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets and portable devices
