LinuxSmartphones

15/11/2022

Ubuntu Touch OTA-24 is scheduled for release on Friday, and it will bring support for double-tap to wake screen on some devices as well as various bug fixes and improvements. Available for testing now.

On a mission to support an open-source and collaborative community for the development and promotion of an innovative mobile operating system.

07/09/2022

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 includes updates on development for the Fairphone 4, BT audio patches, the upcoming move to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and more.

Fairphone 4 port, Xenial improvements, VolTE news

04/09/2022

postmarketOS v22.06 SP2 brings support for new touch gestures to the Linux distro for phones, plus an updated lock screen, a new welcome dialog, and better support for devices with Snapdragon 845 chips. https://postmarketos.org/blog/2022/09/04/v22.06.2-release/

25/08/2022

Purism brings support for more swipe gestures to the Phosh user interface for the Librem 5 and other phones running mobile Linux distributions.

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

22/08/2022

Purism says it has enough CPUs to complete production of all back-ordered Librem 5 Linux smartphones and should hit shipping parity by the end of the year (meaning new orders will ship within 10 days of being placed instead of years later)

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

21/08/2022

Megi has released an updated audio codec for the PinePhone Pro that fixes a number of issues.

2022–08–14: USB recovery/hacking tool for Pinephone Pro I noticed in Pine64 chat that some people lack uSD card or uSD card reader when they receive the phone, and are thus prevented from flashing an OS to eMMC until they buy it. It's kinda wasteful to buy these things when you may only need the...

17/08/2022

The developer of Megapixels and many other apps for Linux phones has ceased working with Pine64 following numerous points of friction between the Pinephone maker and the community of devs creating software that runs on the phones.

Among those issues are the selection of Manjaro as the default OS for the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, despite Manjaro's lack of cooperation with other projects, and the struggle to get Pine64 and Manjaro to agree to ship PinePhone Pro and PineBook Pro devices with an SPI flash chip with the Tow-Boot bootloader.

Linux hardware projects are made or broken by their community support. PINE64 has made some brilliant moves to build up a mobile Linux community, and has also made some major mistakes. This is my view on how PINE64 made the PinePhone a success, and then broke that again through their

04/08/2022

Purism Librem 5 USA Edition reaches "shipping parity," which means orders placed now ship in about 10 days... if you pay $1,999. The cheaper (but still expensive after price hikes) $1,299 Librem 5 has a lead time of 52 weeks.

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

31/05/2022

The GNOME desktop environment has become a lot more mobile friendly since the launch of GNOME 40. But now devs are working on a gesture API, screen size detection, on-screen keyboard, quick settings, and multitasking UI tweaks for smartphones.

Posted on May 30, 2022May 30, 2022 by Jonas DreßlerTowards GNOME Shell on mobile As part of the design process for what ended up becoming GNOME 40 the design team worked on a number of experimental concepts, a few of which were aimed at better support for tablets and other smaller devices. Ever sin...

31/05/2022

Pine64 acknowledges issues with the PinePhone Keyboard: in a nutshell, it's probably best to pretend your phone doesn't have a USB port when the keyboard is attached, as using it for charging or data can cause damage.

Hello everyone! This month we’re announcing production of the Pinebook Pro resuming and introduction of Quartz64 model-B. I had an opportunity to meet with TL earlier this month, and got some ear-on…

17/05/2022

postmarketOS Tweaks now supports changing the color scheme on devices using the SXMO user interface.

postmarketOS Tweaks can now tweak the colors in Sxmo, but only the xorg session. This backend has been contributed by Porkyofthepine ...

16/05/2022

postmarketOS v21.12 Service Pack 5 brings kernel updates for devices with Snapragon 845 and 821 chips, and an update to postmarketOS Tweaks.

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

26/04/2022

The latest update to this shell for mobile Linux distributions brings bug fixes, support for opening the action drawer from the lock screen (with restricted permissions), lays the groundwork for 3rd-party homescreens, and and more.

The Plasma Mobile team is happy to announce the release of Plasma Mobile’s updates for March-April 2022. Website Overhaul Devin worked on the website and updated the homepage design, site pages, content style, as well as the screenshots page.

18/04/2022

postmarketOS v21.12 Service Pack 4 brings support for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" tablet, kernel upgrades for Snapdragon 845 devices and other devices, app updates, and more.

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

15/04/2022

A new batch of PinePhone Keyboards should be available soon, and firmware improvements should lead to better battery operation and charging. https://www.pine64.org/2022/04/15/april-update-no-more-unicorns/

14/03/2022

The JingPad A1 is a tablet that ships with a tablet-friendly Linux distribution called JingOS. The company that makes the tablet (and its operating system) has fallen on hard times, putting the future of the JingPad A1 in doubt, but folks who already have one may be able to give the tablet new life....

14/03/2022

postmarketOS v21.12 Service Pack 3 brings bug fixes and other updates to the stable channel, including kernel upgrades for some phones.

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

10/02/2022

Ubuntu Touch OTA-22 is coming Feb 18 and is looking for testers. Expected major Pixel 3a improvements, WebGL support on some devices, and other improvements.

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