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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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[…]
Read moreHow to get a similar Android Stock Experience on Xiaomi devices without Root and Roms. The Xiaomi Mi A1 has gone in the market last year and started something big, the Android Stock Experience on Xiaomi devices. The best of two worlds: quality phones at cheap prices and Android One, the cleanest Android system, in one place. Users liked it,[…]
Read moreLandscape on the phone, portrait on the PC I recorded some videos with my smartphone and, incredibly, after the import on the PC, I found them rotated in the wrong mode. Landscape to portrait, or viceversa. Not ever, not at all, but sometimes it happens. So I was looking for a way to rotate those videos. I shot videos with[…]
Read more