PostmarketOS is an operating system based on Alpine Linux which is designed to run on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. It can at least boot on over 200 devices, and it supports a number of different user interfaces. The PinePhone postmarketOS Community Edition is one of the first smartphones that actually ships with the […]
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PinePhone postmarketOS Community Edition: Unboxing and first look (video)
The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems including postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, Sailfish, and Manjaro. Pine64 began shipping the first version of the phone at the start of this year, and since then the company has offered several additional batches of phones, often involving “Community Edition” versions […]
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Purism’s Librem AweSIM is a privacy-focused cellular service (for $99/month)
Linux laptop maker Purism is also in the Linux smartphone business these days thanks to the company’s Librem 5 smartphone, which is designed to run free and open source software and offer privacy features including hardware kill switches. The Librem 5 is still under development, but Purism has been shipping some early batches to customers […]
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Volla Phone set to ship to crowdfunding backers in November
About a year after launching a crowdfunding campaign for a smartphone that would ship with a choice of a de-Googled version of Android or Ubuntu Touch software, the makers of the Volla Phone say production is underway, and the phone is on track to ship to backers in November. The phone is still up for pre-order […]
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PinePhone news roundup (9-25-2020)
The PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition smartphone is coming soon, the developers have been working to make Manjaro ARM ready for smartphones, and @linmobblog has recorded a few videos showing the OS in action so far. Meanwhile developer Martijn Braam has been hard at work on the new Megapixels app for PinePhones, enabling support for much […]
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 released with browser improvements, new features, support for more phones
The latest version of Ubuntu Touch for smartphones adds stable releases for six more smartphones, an updated browser engine that improves performance by 25-percent, and a bunch of new features. The UBports team says Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 will roll out to supported devices within the next week. Here are some of the changes in the […]
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Precursor is a mobile, open hardware development kit (crowfunding)
Hardware hacker bunnie Huang‘s latest project is a mobile device called Precursor. While it looks a bit like a phone or PDA, Huang describes it as a “mobile, open source electronics platform” designed for development purposes. It’s set to go up for pre-order through a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign soon, but Huang has published a […]
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Manjaro’s smartphone OS is making progress
The Pinephone Manjaro Community Edition smartphone is now up for for pre-order from the Pine Store, which means customers can reserve a phone that will ship with a mobile-friendly version of the popular Manjaro GNU/Linux distribution. Manjaro ARM is very much a work in progress a the moment, but the developers have been making progress, and […]
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Run Android apps on the Librem 5 with Anbox
Anbox is a tool that allows you to run Android apps on devices running a GNU/Linux-based operating system. First released in 2017, the Anbox was originally designed to bring Android apps to desktop computers. But it didn’t take long for developers to begin porting Anbox to run on Linux smartphones. It’s already possible to use […]
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PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition pre-orders begin September 17
The PinePhone may be a smartphone designed to run any operating system you care to load on it. But Pine64 has been partnering with developers to offer PinePhone Community Edition devices that come pre-loaded with a specific OS, and which have a logo for that OS on the back. Next up? The PinePhone Manjaro Community […]