Big news: the first Liberux dev-board is here!

After weeks of work, we’ve finally received the assembled PCB and already started booting it up. Our hardware team has spent the last days debugging, testing, and getting the SoC to talk to the PC, and we’re officially entering the bring up phase!

We just published a full post with all the details, photos and videos: https://liberux.net/our-first-dev-board-has-arrived/

When my laptop spontaneously dies in the middle of a trip, and I still need to finish a presentation, my #OnePlus6 with @postmarketOS comes to the rescue.

A HUGE thanks to everyone working to make #LinuxPhones a thing.

Ubuntu Touch's openstore has a fediverse section

https://lemmy.ca/post/41913539

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 161

https://lemmy.ca/post/41725631

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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We can keep discussing about kernels, drivers and which are "true" Linux phones and which are not, or we can focus on getting as many people on the FOSS phone ecosystem and improving the rather sorry state of so many applications, and I would VERY much prefer the latter

Fediverse! Talk to me about #LinuxPhones! I want to diversify from #iOS with current events being what they are, but am only a bit #Linux literate. Would appreciate personal testimonials!

Currently looking at #PinePhone & #ShiftPhone… opinions? Other suggestions?

[edit] Would mostly be: doing financial things & social media (assuming via browser). Would like to try #UbuntuTouch, so I could try installing Signal? Nothing hugely demanding, just needs to get online via cell signal.

With all the BS of Apple doing their AI spying (amongst other issues), it's that time of year where I once again look for a "third party" phone to migrate to as a daily driver.

I've followed lots of Linux phones (running Ubuntu Touch, KDE Plasma Mobile, postmarketOS and others), feature phones running KaiOS, and others.

Heck I was even building my own phone on an RPi years ago (https://web.archive.org/web/20210725154717/https://www.tinker.sh/kde-plamo-rpi/ ) and have been following the PinePhone project for a very long time.

My current research is pointing towards a Fairphone 4 running e/OS (degooglefied android). I live in the US, so this is as close to the Fairphone as I can get currently: https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-4/ (edit: Annnnd, it's no longer available.)

Really I just need a phone that runs Signal and can run some sort of GPS app. Everything else I can do via a web browser.

I hate Apple/iOS phones. The only thing I hate more than Apple phones are Google/Android phones.

#Jolla Community Phone / C2:
just announced on stream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEC3sVExAU). No info on SoC, shipping with Sailfish OS 5.

Now they're announcing some trustworthy 100% private, user-controlled AI thing - that's supposed to be helpful with everyday tasks. I am not hype on AI, but if the promises hold up, that's interesting.

#LinuxPhones picks of the day:

@tuxdevices - Linux phone news

@linuxphoneapps - App directory for Linux phones

@ubports - Maintains Ubuntu Touch

@mobian - Debian-based distro for mobiles

@droidian - Debian-based distro for Android devices

@postmarketOS - Alpine-based distro for mobiles

@plasmamobile - Mobile interface by KDE

@PINE64 (main) & @pine64eu (EU shop) - Makers of PinePhone, low-cost Linux phone

@volla - Phones with Ubuntu Touch or de-Googled Android

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Time to let the cat out of the bag.

I've been working on a new app to use your #Linux phones and tablets as secondary wireless "side displays" (not mirrors). This is based on #GStreamer, x264, #Mutter APIs, and low-latency UDP streaming, and will be designed to work on both ARM and Intel, regardless of hardware acceleration support. (Testing on a #librem5)

This is still at an early stage, and will take some time to become usable. Thoughts and feedback?

GNOME 45 Mobile. This menu shines on a smartphone.
#postmarketos #gnome #gnomeonmobile #linuxphones

Ha trop bien, les dernières mises à jour #mobian / #debian m'ont apportées une application de calendrier qui me permet de modifier des évènements \o/

KDE Plasma Mobile Gear 22.11 is out, with support for tapping the media player from the audio drawer to open the source app window, Weather, Dialer, and Recorder app improvements, bug fixes, and performance improvements and more.

Starting next April, Plasma Mobile apps will be updated in sync with KDE desktop apps.

https://plasma-mobile.org/2022/11/30/plasma-mobile-gear-22-11/