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Manjaro ships Plasma Mobile 5.21, adds initial setup for PinePhone

Manjaro ships Plasma Mobile 5.21, adds initial setup for PinePhone

The popular Arch-based Manjaro distribution has been one of the earliest projects to express interest [https://tuxphones.com/manjaro-phone-plasma-mobile-smartphone-distro-arch/] in the niche of Linux phones, and has been widely adopted by PinePhone users since its initial release. However, the team never stopped being innovative, integrating crust from an early stage

⚡ Plasma Mobile gets major UI improvements, several bugfixes

From being one of the earliest desktops to embrace the mobile Linux world, Plasma Mobile has already become one of the stablest and most complete mobile desktop environments thanks to continuous work by its team. What looked like a pre-alpha experiment years ago is now one of the most usable

⚡ Ubuntu Touch is coming to the Google Pixel 3a

⚡ Ubuntu Touch is coming to the Google Pixel 3a

After Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 adding official support for a series of Oneplus (3/3T) and Sony Xperia (X*, XZ) devices, the most popular Linux distribution for phones is expanding further, with Ubuntu Touch developer Alfred Neumayer announcing upcoming support for the 2019 mid-range Google Pixel 3a smartphone. > I really can't

⚡ Official PinePhone back cover will add hardware keyboard, wireless charging, NFC and more

⚡ Official PinePhone back cover will add hardware keyboard, wireless charging, NFC and more

Just days after announcing the PineCom PDA, the PINE team has released another blog post (link below) announcing their progress for October 2020. This includes several plans, such as the PineTime budget smartwatch finally starting shipping with the Infinitime firmware, more details on the Pinecil RISC-V soldering iron (?), and more

⚡ The status of camera on the PinePhone: drivers, autofocus, color curves and more

After many months of work, omnipresent postmarketOS developer and photography enthusiast Martijn Braam has worked on turning the PinePhone camera not only into something working, but pushing the boundaries of the entry-level OV5640 sensor and its basic lens. > Image quality improvements for the #PinePhone [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PinePhone?src=

⚡ Official "Fedora Mobility" project targets PinePhone (and more)

After several years of inactivity, the official Fedora Mobility SIG team has been revived to work on bringing the popular Linux distro to the PinePhone in the immediate future, but also aims for expansion to other devices in the future. This interest may be originated from the work of @jhanikhil

⚡ WhatsApp and Anbox: the most popular messaging app now runs on Linux phones

As seen in several previous [https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-run-android-apps-anbox-linux-fdroid/] articles [https://tuxphones.com/postmarketos-linux-gets-anbox-android-app-support/], almost all tuxphone-oriented distributions are actively working on supporting the Anbox abstraction layer in order to integrate Android apps quasi-natively with Linux ones. With Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, PureOS and Mobian supporting it, the project is getting