Fairphone is preparing to put on the market a new version of its “ethical” smartphone, that is, with a controlled, modular supply chain – and therefore easily repairable and upgradeable from the hardware point of view – and made with partly recycled material. The information available is still limited, however, we can rely on what is reported in the Swiss[…]
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Unity8 becomes Lomiri. An operating environment for everywhere
After Canonical announced that they will stop investing in the convergence process, the UBports community stepped forward to pick up the development of the Ubuntu Touch operating system. Initially, the first priority has been to make sure that every Ubuntu Touch user could continue to use their device, and the response from the community has been overwhelmingly positive. They are[…]
Read moreThe PinePhone. Open, friendly and smart
Welcome to 2020: Pine64 has announced that it is finally shipping its first opensource smartphone. The PinePhone is a modern device designed to run the main Linux distributions. The PinePhone doesn’t come with the OS pre-installed but with a factory test image for hardware test and verification. Like the amazing Linux tradition, users are expected to flash the operating system[…]
Read moreLinux mobile as a daily driver alternative
The truth is that Ubuntu touch (and arguably luneOS) is the already daily driver ready fully open source gnu/Linux OS, we don’t have any real numbers on how many devices run ubuntu touch (as we don’t track anyone period) but based on the download numbers and people in our telegram channel, we definitely have well over 5000 active daily users![…]
Read moreUber knows your phone and this is bad
The taxi app of Uber captures a huge amount of data on all its users and uses that information to direct its business strategy. Uber knows when the battery on your phone is running low – and that you are more likely to pay higher “surge” prices for a car as a result… Uber knows whether a user is on[…]
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