09-15-2020, 10:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2020, 10:34 PM by SwordfishII.)
(09-14-2020, 06:27 AM)LinAdmin2 Wrote: Convergence of desktop and phone is an old hat but IMHO not yet realized.
Although the CPU power might be OK, I have some doubts that 2-3G RAM will be sufficient.
There are other low cost phones with more RAM and I think trying with such a model has more chances of success.
I very much disagree with this.
Linux is much more ram friendly than windows and Android.
I still use an original eeepc 701 with debian on it I also still use an open pandora which runs angstrom and can emulate saturn/dreamcast and down.
Both are capable machines still with less than 3GB of ram.
As always though use case matters. Gimp and blender are probably out for the pinephone. Dev, browsing, ssh, media etc will work just fine.
(09-14-2020, 08:31 AM)Peter Gamma Wrote: Any idea for a powerful low-cost Linux phone?
This is it. The openmoko has a lot worse specs since its old. The libre specs are about the same but it isn't fully opensource and it's a lot more expensive.
I'm not aware of any other purely Linux phones.
A LINUX umpc you might be interested in is the dragonbox Pyra. But it hasn't been released yet (I preordered 6 years ago). It will still be very capable, but much more expensive than the pinephone and only 4gb of ram.
The Cosmo Communicator has6gb of ram and dual boots debian, but it simply wraps the android kernel with libhybris so no mainline kernel and a lot of binary blobs. Also they basically abandoned it...do you may lose your money if you buy it. Oh and Android is super buggy on it, which would be fine if they didn't abandon it. I don't use mine much.