Tablet is almost free, just don’t have a hinge and have a touchscreen. Release as Chromebook, it will run Android applications
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pastabatman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Surely they are aiming for a repairable and modular smartphone eventually. That’s going to be super hard to do. My guess is their next form factor will be a tablet.
iopq@lemmy.world 8 months ago
mac@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Why Chromebook?
iopq@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To run Android stuff on x86
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Linux can run Android apps since we have Waydroid too and it’s universal, no need for single device - single OS nonsense.
pastabatman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Chromebook makes sense. They could also do full on Linux. Star labs has a tablet coming out, so they didn’t have to reinvent the wheel for software (I assume, I haven’t tried touchscreen Linux).
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
A reminder that if something can run Android or ChromeOS doesn’t mean drivers would be available for Linux. And usually they aren’t.
pastabatman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can order that tablet with Ubuntu, mint, Manjaro, zorin, elementary, etc. There’s gotta be some kind of driver support to build on, no?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Any Linux phone is DOA for the foreseeable future because of the cellular radios.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You can get laptops that have 5G radios that you can use for data with Linux.
As I understand it, there’s no support for voice/SMSes at the radio level, but in theory, if you were willing to tolerate it and your cell service provider offers support, you could do WiFi calling.
Could also get service from a random other VoIP provider, use that over the data connection.
I think that a larger downside is that Android software is designed for a touch screen and low power usage across the board, and GNU/Linux software generally isn’t.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I imagine the lack of voice support presents some compliance issues with emergency calls.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Mmmm. I dunno. You’re talking about location availability?
Last month, I had to call 911 when some random druggie lit what I thought was a building on fire across the street from my car (it turned out to just be a bonfire in the parking lot; figured that out while running over). I didn’t know the cross-street for my location, and asked the dispatcher if she could just send the fire department to the location she got from my cell phone via E911. She had no idea what I was talking about, needed me to manually provide location.
So I’m not totally sure, at least in the US, what the compliance requirements are for availability of location information.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
We can say that for any kind of drivers needed to run a mobile phone.\ Manufacturers of components are less and less providing any documentation, just throw a binary blob and say “put it in your Android build”.
priapus@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They didn’t say Linux phone though, it could still be android with a custom ROM.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Eh, Pinephone and Librem 5 made it work, but there’s still a fair amount of software limitations here, and I didn’t think Framework should be a software company. But the radios themselves probably aren’t the blocker you make them out to be.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They absolutely did not make it work. Go read any of the reviews and the complete unreliability of the cellular functions of both devices are chief among the criticisms.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My understanding is that those issues are due to suspend to save battery life, which isn’t directly related to the radios. A more appropriate SOC (i.e. one designed for mobile use) would probably be more reliable with the same radios they selected when going on standby.