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Advice for people making the next Linux phone: be generous with specs. 4G of RAM is pathetic even for just a phone. For a LINUX phone, people want to plug it i
by nsonha 3y ago
Advice for people making the next Linux phone: be generous with specs.
4G of RAM is pathetic even for just a phone. For a LINUX phone, people want to plug it in a monitor and run desktop grade software on it, they don't just want the title linux for show.
Then you can charge 2k!
- Hackbraten 3y agoI can imagine that this may be harder than it seems. - Most modern consumer-grade chips and SoCs have proprietary specs and closed-sourced drivers. It can be difficult to obtain drivers suitable for mainlining into Linux. - The automotive industry seems a good place to source parts with open specs. But for reasons I don’t understand, they seem to cling to absurdly old process sizes. - Higher-specced chipsets would potentially eat into profit margins even more, even though ongoing app/drivers/OS development is already expensive enough. Mostly speculation on my end but I think there are reasons for choosing lower-end specs somewhere in that zone.
- fsflover 3y agoThey have an article explaining some of the actual reasons: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/ https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/