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postmarketOS gets Anbox integration, will run native Android apps

postmarketOS gets Anbox integration, will run native Android apps

Supporting Android apps to some degree has always been one of the priorities of the postmarketOS project, with Anbox [https://anbox.io/] support being one of the oldest issues [https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/issues/17] in the project's bug tracker. The news is, this issue has been very recently

Video shows PinePhone prototype detailed assembly and boot to Plasma Mobile

Video shows PinePhone prototype detailed assembly and boot to Plasma Mobile

Just some days after Purism released its first Librem 5 walk-through video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvnt78mK-Ac], with the final device running its "GNOME" Phosh shell with impressive smoothness, postmarketOS developer Martijn Braam uploaded a video [https://fosstodon.org/web/statuses/102894704117260275] of himself assemblying by hand the

$79 PineTab Linux tablet supports SATA and LTE expansions, boots postmarketOS

$79 PineTab Linux tablet supports SATA and LTE expansions, boots postmarketOS

While PINE64 has often been in the news in the last months for their PinePhone [https://tuxphones.com/tag/pinephone/], the $150 Linux smartphone (and low-cost Purism Librem 5 alternative), the same can't be said about its big brother, the PineTab [https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/]. At the modest price

postmarketOS Linux makes 🎂️ 2 years 🎂️: bringing over one hundred smartphones back to life

postmarketOS Linux makes 🎂️ 2 years 🎂️: bringing over one hundred smartphones back to life

It's a fact: smartphones tend to have a dramatically short lifespan, no matter the price range. While features remain more or less the same, even high-end smartphones tend to become slow within two or three years, forcing their users to an upgrade. And while it's widely known, even among non-technical

First prototype for PINE64 "PinePhone" Linux smartphone sports thin bezels and modern design

First prototype for PINE64 "PinePhone" Linux smartphone sports thin bezels and modern design

After being announced several months ago, Pine64's inexpensive "PinePhone" Linux smartphone looks like a cheaper, entry-level alternative to the relatively popular Librem5 [https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem5-smartphone-gemalto-pls8-4g-lte-modem-bands-regions-speeds-gps/] Linux smartphone by Purism, which promises total privacy and a full mobile Linux experience. In fact, most of the work on Linux for smartphones