Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Having a Linux phone that chroot compartments for Android apps is the dream.
I was just checking that yesterday, and there was the opportunity to have something equivalent to a “steam phone” with https://liberux.net/#specs , but the indiegogo failed.
One that is actually sold is the Furiphone , which is under finalization of software update., and has chroot for Android apps with Waydroid. check the links ! 😊
The GNU organization just announced a Linux phone a couple weeks ago
Not quite. FSF (Free Software Foundation) announced the Librephone project. Its goal is to work towards having phone hardware with open firmware. They are still in the phase of finding out what that entails.
They are not making a phone. It’s more a campaign of nudging other manufacturers in that direction.
Steam Xperia Linux phone would be a dream. I think if a Steam phone did well then other companies like Asus would jump into Linux phone.
Then suddenly we get mainstream alternatives to Android.
You mean the one with PlayStation integration? Fuck yeah.
The one that you could slide out to find it has dpad and buttons to use for games.
Not exactly that but Jolla might be interesting for you. I had the first edition of the device in 2014 and I loved it.
Thry finally released a second gen hardware last year I think.
BlackBerry had a separate walled/secured android instance a long time ago. I wish that more people bought the phone. Jolla is interesting, but I really want the banking apps to work.
olafurp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck it, just make them work like Flatpaks or snaps and run a minimal android session on top of virtual hardware and install like normal.