I've found it on Reddit today, it's built on PostmarketOS and aims to replicate Blackberry 10 experience. Posting here because it looks much nicer than Phosh and I've never heard of it, despite following mobile linux communities.
I've found it on Reddit today, it's built on PostmarketOS and aims to replicate Blackberry 10 experience. Posting here because it looks much nicer than Phosh and I've never heard of it, despite following mobile linux communities.
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erebion@news.erebion.eu · 20 pts · 261d
I was always wishing the BlackBerry Classic would run the same OS, but FOSS and up-to-date and based on Linux.
The Classic will likely never come back (has not even been rooted yet), but it's nice seeing an OS like that.
Hoping for tight XMPP integration into the hub and something like the BlachBerry Classic hardware-wise. With Mainline Kernel, USB-C and 5G. Ready for the next decade.
That would be my dream.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 260d
We really should have more options than cell phone towers built into these phones anymore. LoRA with reticulum should be part of these.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 261d
Looks interesting. I'm very interested in seeing where this goes.
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 261d
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 260d
I wonder what the battery life is like.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
This sounds like a cool project. Now I need someone to remake my Blackberry 8830 with modern hardware
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 261d
This is exciting. I've never used a BlackBerry, but the video looks really neat.
the_q@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 261d
paper_moon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 261d
With postmarketos you can run gnome desktop or gnome mobile.
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Interface
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 260d
paper_moon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
gnome mobile is quite good. I like it better than what ubuntu touch uses, Lomiri.
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
How is KDE Plasma mobile have you tried that
mech@feddit.org · 15 pts · 261d
Because the hardware and drivers are proprietary and change every 2 years, which is too fast to keep up with reverse engineering them.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 261d
It can, but you'd need to have pretty thin fingers to use the GUI. Or carry a touchpad with you all the time.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 261d
Or a stylus.
Mac@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 261d
A battery powered stylus with a pointing stick on the end and a few buttons along the body would be neat.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 261d
Which part do you mean?
the_q@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 261d
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 261d
Thats what Ubuntu touch, postmarketOS etc are already doing
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
*not without substantial hurdles (mostly due to hw / SoC support). I'm wondering if they were meaning to ask why this wasn't more common today.
erebion@news.erebion.eu · 4 pts · 261d
Well, UBPorts still uses .click packages, those did not seem like good solution even in 2015... Those are just .deb files with a different extension and metadata.
Nowadays Flatpak seems more interesting, although... I personally prefer Debian packages.
tuckerm@feddit.online · 5 pts · 261d
Wow, yeah I also haven't heard of that one and I check in on mobile Linux projects pretty often.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 261d
Snickers
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 261d
Long lasting energy from peanuts?
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 260d
Nah, Marathon turned into Snickers in 1990.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 260d
I did not expect to learn this fact from a phone OS thread. Thanks! :D
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 259d
very promising! but how can you install it on a phone where pmos already runs? couldn't find any instructions
Tundra@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
loving the logo
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 261d
So is Android, but people like to get bent all out of shape when you mention it
smeg@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 260d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 260d
Oh, so you mean GNU/Linux.
smeg@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 260d
SirActionSack@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 259d
People are getting "bent all out of shape" because you're in a Linux phone thread and announcing AksHuaLLy aNDrOid is LInuX.
Do you think that people are suddenly going to be happy with the current state of Android if you repeat that it's Linux based enough times?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 259d
See, just like that!
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 258d
Hmmm I wonder why people would get upset about acting like one of the largest surveillance companies in existence and hobbiest devices designed to evade surveillance are essentially the same?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 258d
Look, there's another one!