Rather than a cutting-edge Snapdragon 8 chip, the NexPhone is going with a rather odd choice of Qualcomm SoC: the QCM6490. This chip is primarily designed for IoT purposes, and it’s not exactly new, either — we saw the Fairphone 5 running it back in 2023, and it was noticeably sluggish, even then.
Doesn’t say how the various OS’es get installed, they talk about some kind of multi-boot in the OS, that sounds bad for long-term maintenance. Give me an x86_64 CPU and UEFI, maybe I’m interested. This ain’t it.
@Bluegrass_Addict@bruhbeans Agreed. Doesn’t Android 16 already have the ability to “run Linux as an app?” Even on Android 15 and earlier people do this using @termux, proot, etc.
The dodgy surveillance OSes, Google Android and #Microslop Windows, get installed on the device, while the trustworthy OS, Debian #GNULinux, gets installed as a constrained and restricted app?
Doesn’t say how the various OS’es get installed, they talk about some kind of multi-boot in the OS, that sounds bad for long-term maintenance. Give me an x86_64 CPU and UEFI, maybe I’m interested. This ain’t it.
it for sure does say how the other OS’s get installed… as apps on Android.
it’s just an android fork and not a true Linux install. nothing but corporate lies in my book
@Bluegrass_Addict @bruhbeans Agreed. Doesn’t Android 16 already have the ability to “run Linux as an app?” Even on Android 15 and earlier people do this using @termux, proot, etc.
The dodgy surveillance OSes, Google Android and #Microslop Windows, get installed on the device, while the trustworthy OS, Debian #GNULinux, gets installed as a constrained and restricted app?
Whatever happened to people’s brains?
#NexPhone #NexDock
I miss when Intel was making Atom chips for smartphones. God damn were those things fast for the time.