Okay. I have a month to pick out a new phone before I can no longer cancel my pre-ordered Light Phone 3. I really like my Light Phone 2, but living without a camera has been a little too limiting, and the folks in my life would really appreciate me at least getting that capability back. I am still bitter about losing the headphone jack, though.

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

Kicking things off, I came very close to going even more minimal than the Light Phone when I found Sky's Edge Rotary Phone. I wanted this thing so bad, but folks in my life vetoed going that low-function pretty hard.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

📱 Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support / @linuxiac

｢ Over two years in development, this release brings an updated base aligned with Debian 13, Phosh 46.0 (a mobile user interface for Linux phones), and Plasma Mobile 6.3 desktop environments, as well as a Linux kernel 6.12 for most supported devices. The Librem 5 remains on kernel 6.6 for now ｣

https://linuxiac.com/mobian-trixie-officially-released-with-broader-device-support/

#mobian #mobianos #debian #linuxphone

📱 Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support / @linuxiac

｢ Over two years in development, this release brings an updated base aligned with Debian 13, Phosh 46.0 (a mobile user interface for Linux phones), and Plasma Mobile 6.3 desktop environments, as well as a Linux kernel 6.12 for most supported devices. The Librem 5 remains on kernel 6.6 for now ｣

https://linuxiac.com/mobian-trixie-officially-released-with-broader-device-support/

#mobian #mobianos #debian #linuxphone

I'm aware the PinePhone exists, but absolutely no one seems excited by it. If you're excited by it, I'd love to know why, though!

#linuxPhone #opensource #PinePhone

Okay. I have a month to pick out a new phone before I can no longer cancel my pre-ordered Light Phone 3. I really like my Light Phone 2, but living without a camera has been a little too limiting, and the folks in my life would really appreciate me at least getting that capability back. I am still bitter about losing the headphone jack, though.

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

Kicking things off, I came very close to going even more minimal than the Light Phone when I found Sky's Edge Rotary Phone. I wanted this thing so bad, but folks in my life vetoed going that low-function pretty hard.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

Is anyone using any #linuxphone as their only phone? Is it usable now?

#Linux

Revisiting SailfishOS – September 2025 Thoughts / Nick Schmidt

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/sailfishos-sept25/

#SailfishOS #linuxphone #opensource

Is anyone using any #linuxphone as their only phone? Is it usable now?

#Linux

Some people on activitypub seemed a bit interested in mobile linux, so I decided to share a bit more of my experience on here. I will break it up into different posts covering different aspects.

I have been using a PinePhone 1.2b (3GB of RAM, 32GB eMMC storage) as my daily driver for roughly four years now. That may sound impressive, but I only really use a phone so people can reach me, for music on the go, and for a browser in a pinch. I'm not on my phone all that often.

PinePhone: https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

Currently, I have Mobian (based on Debian) Trixie installed on the internal eMMC storage and a 512GB microSD card mounted at /home, both utilizing full-disk encryption, for plenty of storage for my use-case. I'm using the Phosh interface, since it is more stable in my experience than plasma mobile currently. I also mostly use GTK software since they tend to integrate better with Phosh. I do not have cellular service on it, I even have the entire cellular modem disabled via the hardware dipswitch on the back currently.

Mobian: https://mobian-project.org/
Phosh: https://phosh.mobi/

#mobian#debian#linux#mobilelinux#pinephone#linuxphone#phosh

/usr/bin/feh -W 550 --cache-size 1050 -t --index-info '' -y 60 -E 70 -P -d -J 16 --edit -s -B black -. -S mtime /home/user/Pictures/*jpg --action1 'cp %F /tmp' --action2 'xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i %F' --action3 'echo $PWD/%F| xclip -i'

At least i have the "gallery" view from which to select an image to see, that i can scroll, etc. (and by pressing 1, 2, or 3 can copy img!)

#linuxphone

Can you program GPUs and do you want to become a HERO? #linuxphone
community needs your help.

We are trying record video, and have most pieces working, but one is
missing: fast enough debayering. That means about 23MB/sec on #librem5.

Debayering is not hard; camera images have subpixels split on two
lines, which need to be corrected. They also use different color
representation, but that's fixable by some table lookup and two matrix
multiplies.

Librem 5 has Vivante GPU, 4 in-order CPU cores and 3GB RAM. My feeling
is that it should be fast enough for that. If task is for some reason
impossible, that would be good to know, too.

Image data looks like this

RGRGRG...
xBxBxB...
.........
.........

Task is to turn that into usual rgbrgb.... format. rgb = RGB * color
matrix, with table lookups for better quality. I can fix that once I
get an example.

I'm looking for example code (#pinephone would work, too), reasons it
can not be done... and boosts if you have friends that can program
GPUs. #gpu#opensource

Can you program GPUs and do you want to become a HERO? #linuxphone
community needs your help.

We are trying record video, and have most pieces working, but one is
missing: fast enough debayering. That means about 23MB/sec on #librem5.

Debayering is not hard; camera images have subpixels split on two
lines, which need to be corrected. They also use different color
representation, but that's fixable by some table lookup and two matrix
multiplies.

Librem 5 has Vivante GPU, 4 in-order CPU cores and 3GB RAM. My feeling
is that it should be fast enough for that. If task is for some reason
impossible, that would be good to know, too.

Image data looks like this

RGRGRG...
xBxBxB...
.........
.........

Task is to turn that into usual rgbrgb.... format. rgb = RGB * color
matrix, with table lookups for better quality. I can fix that once I
get an example.

I'm looking for example code (#pinephone would work, too), reasons it
can not be done... and boosts if you have friends that can program
GPUs. #gpu#opensource