Liberux Nexx GNU/Linux smartphone adds cheaper entry model


In response to community feedback, Liberux is adding a cheaper, entry level option to it's crowfunding campaign

Source:
mastodon.social/@Liberux/11463…


📢 Good news, community!

Your response to the new Liberux NEXX model has been amazing 🙌
So we’re making it real:
🗓️ This Monday, June 9 at 15:00 UTC+0, the new entry-level version will go live.

🔧 LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAM
💶 Price: €890

It will be available on the crowdfunding page, alongside the current version:
👉 indiegogo.com/projects/liberux…

Thank you for helping us build meaningful open hardware.
See you on Monday! 💬

#LinuxPhones #LiberuxNEXX #liberux #nexx


in reply to someacnt

I can't talk for others I'm personally interested in Linux phones (I have 2, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro) because I do not want to rely on Android because it's lead, maintained and basically in practice owned by Google.

I would also much prefer to have "just" Linux because I know it better and because IMHO we reached a point, already few years ago, where "mobile" does not mean much anymore. "just" a computer with a battery is enough due to the power available.

IMHO the SteamDeck is the existence proof of that.

Linux desktop apps are not exactly secure.


Can you please clarify?

in reply to utopiah

The "know it better" is, I think, a big argument, that's imo often a bit overlooked. Android does not have that much "hackers" as "proper" Linux has. For the average Gnome DE @ Ubuntu user, Android forks are fine. But if you're the kind of person, who searches for random scripts on Github, you won't get that experience on LineageOS.
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in reply to hperrin

Yes, this.

Google is slowly but consistently closing down the ecosystem (that should have been openv all the way through anyways).

Just like with the search engine, the early ad-free serve-everyone-equally stage is dead. Now the monopoly is about to monetise what it can & control all the things.
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(Thighs might escalate a bit quicker since the "Googles android" is prob at it's peak market share rn & the China alternatives are gonna steamroll even oven giants like Google and Apple to a significant extent.)

This entry was edited (7 hours ago)
in reply to hperrin

It's a bit diffident when you don't have big megacorp subsidies (Meta, Google, various local-market apps, etc) & have to buy all hardware from third parties. And perhaps not have planned obsolescence. And upsales. And ad revenue. And frown upon slave or unhappy workforce & other negative society impacts.

Also it looks like an ok phone, low spec cameras, but still the usual dimensions, OLED, enough RAM & CPU to be usable in desktop mode, Linux.

This entry was edited (7 hours ago)