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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Honest question out of sheer ignorance. Could this, in theory, open doors for an OEM to finally start working on a Linux mobile phone and for devs to spin distros for those phones?

That would make me very happy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This isn't a phone focused product, and the thermal envelope is quite a bit larger. It's meant for laptops, and maybe some tablets will see it. These are Oryon cores from their purchase of Nuvia, and I don't think a whole lot will transfer over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey, dreaming is still free. Who knows for how much longer though 🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, kind of like apple puts an M chip in iPads now, maybe a throttled version of a Snapdragon X chip could be used to make a phone. Didn't think of that but that would be very cool

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

If Crapple can do it, I see no reason why Qualcomm can't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I could see Pine64 doing once the chip becomes cheaper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's the only one that comes to mind if this ever happens.