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: €890It 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
Liberux NEXX
THE LINUX PHONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. | Check out 'Liberux NEXX' on Indiegogo.Indiegogo
someacnt
in reply to carzian • • •utopiah
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.
Can you please clarify?
TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe
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 "tinkers" as "proper" Linux has. For the average Gnome DE @ Ubuntu user, Android forks are fine. But if you're the kind of person, who optimizes their Arch system with cool scripts from Github, you won't get the same experience on LineageOS. I know Termux is a thing but that feels more like a workaround.
Edit: Had to reword the comment, because people thought I was talking about malware and supply chain attacks.
Edit2 to clarify my point: I think big downside of Android is that if you want to tinker with it, you basically have to be an android developer. With "proper" Linux the barrier to entry is smaller and the learning experience is more granular. Hence why we think "we know 'proper' Linux better".
hperrin
in reply to someacnt • • •Because the Android SDK is owned and controlled by Google. They’ve consistently made decisions to make it harder to stay out of their ecosystem (like the new “Integrity” API).
As consumers, we would vastly benefit from having another choice that isn’t controlled by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Evil_Shrubbery
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.)
Nanook
in reply to carzian • •hperrin
in reply to carzian • • •Evil_Shrubbery
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.