i was dissapointet that there are soo few apps (speach linux phone app ecosystem)
If that’s your take-away from my talk, then I really messed up. Things are developing well, IMHO. Yes, Android, even “FOSS Android”/AOSP or just F-Droid do have more apps, but F-Droid has been going since 2010 (and it’s just so much easier to buy a device that runs an F-Droid compatible OS, it’s not even funny).
It’s also available on Flathub and packaged in some relevant distros - it’s one of the far too few apps that are available on Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, postmarketOS, Mobian, Droidian - a true #LinuxMobile marvel.
Author here.
It’s just a report on what we managed to accomplish for LinuxPhoneApps.org, a project that
lists apps for Linux Phones like the PinePhone or Librem 5, that run Linux distributions which do not have a proper (de)centralized app store yet.
That an app was added does not necessary mean it is new or anything, just that it was added to LinuxPhoneApps.org’s app list. It may be years old (and may have worked on #LinuxMobile for a long, long time, but we just missed it before. And the again just refers to the previous quarter ;-)
Here’s the wiki page: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nothing_CMF_Phone_1_(nothing-tetris)
The FLX1 did not have DP alt mode either, unless I am totally mistaken. All external display concepts for the FLX1 were/are to require sth like DisplayLink. So all that’s lost are file transfer speeds over USB.
From what I could gather, they wanted to make more of the original FLX1, but could not get the a manufacturer to do that. I am actually not too unhappy with this one, the orginal FLX1 was too big and heavy for my liking.
That’s the age of the design. If you look at first use (usually a year later), and then widespread use beyond flagship chips for big cores (2+ years later), you’ll end up with different dates. Not every core ARM puts out ends up being used in a ton of chips across SoC vendors, as some fare better in the trade-of between transistors and real world performance/energy efficiency than others. A76 is definitely popular, if you look at SoC out there. The RK3588(s) GPU was announced in 2021 and shipped in 2022 first - so it’s relatively new, as the SoC is also not that old: RK3588s was introduced in early 2022, and these days it has decent enough Linux support to start building a Linux-first product with it.
The issue for small companies like Liberux is that they
That narrows things down very much, and leaves a quite narrow chip selection. Another start-up with the same goal, dawndrums, are designing around the same chip for that very same reason.
If you are in doubt about how competent RK3588(s) is, look into the work that Lucie from MNT does - a lot of future product design is done on MNT hardware, these days powered by that very RK3588.
The thing is: As far as I could gather, they are planning make this in Spain, which - in addition to small scale production (you pay more per part if you order less) introduces higher wages (and costs due to different regulations etc.).
Would I like it to be cheaper? Yes. But ceteris paribus I would not trust them to make it if this where cheaper.
Regarding alternatives, postmarketOS and Mobian also work on old Android phones.
It has 5G.
If this was their second try, after the first one had had an unreliable modem, it would make sense to advertise the modem as reliable… but that’s not the situation they are in.
Just chiming in regarding apps (because https://linuxphoneapps.org/ is my hobby, where I still have to add a bunch of apps I assume are created by you – if that’s you, thanks for the apps!):
no good Bitwarden client GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned
Have you tried https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter ?
(I am a KeePass user, so my first hand experience is not comparable to real-world use)
GS Connect works, but needs a tweak and UI is not good on small screen
I’d suggest https://valent.andyholmes.ca/
No lemmy apps
Yeah, the state of Lemmy apps is not great. I’ve tried a bunch, and aside from the Lemmur fork (that seems abandonned), only Nimlem felt like it had potential.
For the rest: I don’t really use Discord, YouTube and don’t have a Jellyfin instance, so … can’t suggest much here.
Regarding Phosh and GNOME Shell Mobile:
we need a way to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example, maybe itcould be customizable too?)
IIRC, double tapping the white bottom bar thing should do that. IMHO, like with gestures, I just would love to see more consistency between GNOME Shell Mobile and Phosh where possible.
We NEED to press the unlock button after typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode)
I disagree here, IMHO, the iOS-style 6-digit thing on GNOME Mobile is worse (I usually have longer passcodes). Having to press the unlock button can even be seen as a security feature ;-)
I am once again happily asking for logo submissions to replace that current abomination - contributions welcome, contact details at the bottom of every page on https://linmob.net/.