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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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SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeaaah... This has to have some catch because if not, this might finally be the phone I've been waiting for.

"Unfortunately, WiFi isn't yet functional due to a firmware issue."

Well, there's one right there I guess, hopefully they can figure out the firmware.

With 12GB of ram, that's absolutely more than enough to have waydroid running in the background with all the android apps I would need until the Linux app ecosystem catches up, and with mainline support, hopefully the battery life and hardware support won't be absolutely abysmal.

I've never heard of this company or their previous phone, so I'm a little suspicious that their "13 exchangeable modules for the phone" are gonna have some showstopper catch in there. What are the modules for? Are we talking internal modules like soc and WiFi? Or external modules like what Motorola tried to do with an external camera modules and such?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah okay on the slim chance it makes it to market it will never reach a state of unqualified no asterisk Usable. Ignoring.