Here is a video of android apps:
The fact of this gets posted and upvoted on !android@lemdro.id shows how much goodwill Google burned with the enthusiast community.
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Because of the stupidly large screen and since Google keeps taking away android functionalities it might be good as a mini computer along with a cheap android device that you actually keep in your pocket.
No, just convert any laptop into Linux if you want an open-source computer. All these phablets are extremely unfriendly to people with hand pain/injuries. Bigger is not better and I really wish manufacturers knocked this off. Screens also dig into battery life tremendously.
I do have a Linux laptop and it’s too big to carry around all the time. The comment was half-joking because 6.7 is more a tablet than a phone so using it as a tablet might not be a bad idea (I don’t know it there are any actual Linux tablets out there).
Fuck you. I want a screen this size.
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This is the kind of discourse I am here for
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Oh, have a lil fun. Lol
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You should evaluate ligma.
Which discourse is just right, Goldilocks?
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I would, but science hasn’t made magnification powerful enough to locate it.
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“This Linux phone”
Stupid ass clickbait title.
It’s the Furi Labs FLX1s (which seems to be a downgrade of the FLX1)
For the same price, too. Dumb
that button placement looks pretty bad. the 3 switches are right where you would be grabbing the phone. the power button looks like its on the opposite side to the volume button so when you go to change the volume (with one hand) youre likely to press the power button by accident.
why? why is this thing being posted so much everywhere?
linux phone
actually halium
hardware kill switches
I guess I just can’t see the utility vs leaving the phone at home since I don’t arrange 3AM deals by the docks
android app support
all we see is a shaky recording of a screen that looks like some gui to control waydroid settings
we have actual hardware now that works really well, has almost mainline linux kernel support, does not rely on oem hacks and proprietary blobs on top of android kernels to be useful, and is available now for $50 second hand in good condition
Do you mean postmarketOS compatible phones? Because I don’t see what else you could be talking about in regards to phone hardware with mainline Linux.
Yes, I mean the 2018 era SDM845 bunch of phones. They mostly work. While postmarketOS is the community that made linux on phones possible, it is not the only thing that you can run on these, there is actual choice. I personally liked Mobian very much.
Making linux phones more widely adopted will require wider community interest and halium is just not the way forward.
Edit: screenshot to illustrate my point, my OnePlus 6T running NixOS in UEFI mode (based on this writeup by /u/chayleaf@lemmy.ml:
spoiler
Reminds me of AN0M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield
I always wondered why anyone would choose to use that instead of Signal and GrapheneOS. I mean, removing cameras and microphones is a great tactic, but why use some shady software instead of something that was proven to work many times? Even if that service was authentic, how long would it take for law enforcement to learn about it, seize the servers and collect metadata? There must be people who are competent in tech and also happen to be cartel members.
GrapheneOS didn’t exist back then lol
I’ve read somewhere that the massive explosion in popularity happened in 2020 when someone stole and cloned the PCs that were used to install the ROMs on Android phones. By then GrapheneOS head dev’s conflict with CopperheadOS team was very widely publicized and GrapheneOS’s security debate was impossible to miss.
Anyway, here’s a phone and a messaging app that will only be provided to you and other criminals, it is very secure
Interesting.
Yes , it’s got decent hardware, but they should cut the price off in half
While I agree with that, they don’t have the luxury of scale of mass production, so it’s not possible for them (yet hopefully)
I know prices may be higher but check this: https://www.techwalls.com/production-costs-of-smartphones
If you go to china and go to a factory they will show you the menu where you can choose the components from, you just give them the 3d cad file of the desired form factor. And prices are the one I linked. You have to customize android, I know, and spend on marketing, but that’s it
Hmm fair enough, maybe the more special features are the main reason it is so pricey, like the physical modem switches? Just a guess.
Probably yes, but iirc the pine phone has them too and it’s 150€
Big companies sell their expensive phones for cheap because they’ll get their money selling your data and showing you ads. A phone like this won’t get any money out of you other than the money you give when buying the phone. So it makes sense that it’s pricey.
“Big companies sell their high end phones for cheap”
What crack rock are you sleeping under? I can buy a street legal used vehicle for less than the “latest and greatest” samsung or Apple phone.
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Like $1400 or $1500 for the top S line phone, and $3,000 for the top Samsung fold. Fuck all of that.
The truth is, if it wasn’t for data collection, these phones would be more expensive than this. So yeah, they are cheap compared to their price if companies didn’t collect user data.
I know there’s other costs associated (like the engineering and advertising) , but I happen to know with the iPhone 13 pro they were making about $400 per device. I doubt those margins have shrunk much, if at all, since then.
The response time looks really slow in the video. Not sure I’ve ever seen a loading logo for the settings menu before.
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Can I just stun them instead?
I’ll have to check what’s with the security stuff … That many apps now require to be signed and bootloader locked.
Signature is the only required afaik, alternative stores have been guaranteed to continue to work. Do they want to check bootloader too?
Yes, some do. And if they detect root, they don’t work…i recall Authy was problematic like this lately.
Ok but that’s specific to some apps requirements, Google won’t require it for all apps like they’ll do with signature
I mean, shout out to the drug dealer community out there, but I’d be more excited about… you know, a functional degoogled phone. Or, even better, a seamless way to do that to my existing phone, which I already like.
That might not be possible in the future, hence Linux phones.
