The Liberux Nexx smartphone will be (if it makes it to the production stage) the most powerful smartphone (with the RK3588S) to run GNU/Linux and the mainline kernel. More powerful than the PinePhone Pro, or the OnePlus 6. It will have a decent OLED display, alot of RAM, and much of what you would expect from a privacy-focused GNU/Linux smartphone such as hardware killswitches.
That is to say, this phone will (hopefully if it releases) be a true daily-driver candidate for many people, more so than the current offerings are now. While I am skeptical of it (as I am with any crowdfunded project) I think this will be a great thing if it does make it to production.
Site: https://liberux.net/
Crowdfunding Link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/
Meh, I’m feeling like this whole concept is pretty flawed and it might be better by now to just run Graphene or Lineage out of the box. Maybe a niche Android phone manufacturer like Unihertz could find incentive to do something like that.
A fully FOSS dumbphone would possibly be of more interest than a smartphone, fwiw. Enough smartphone projects have failed that I’m unexcited about this latest one.
Wow yeah I was excited for this, cause if the specs are right I wouldn’t Ind paying around flagship price for a Linux first phone. But at $2K that’s over twice what I’d be willing to pay unfortunately.
Still, I wish them good luck because we desperately need Linux first mobile devices.
It does not matter how powerful the phone is as long as the drivers suck. The original Pinephone would have been fine if it had proper standby mode. If this makes it to production, it’s going to be ewaste. Judging by the fact that they don’t mention software challenges and only focus on privacy/foss buzzwords and le epic HW specs.
