Until recently, the only smartphones I'd ever used were powered by Android. And while it's true that Android is based on Linux at its core, it's also true that it's very significantly different from a ...

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This privacy-focused Linux phone runs Android apps without all the intrusive tracking By Abhimanyu Ghoshal March 04, 2026 The upcoming Jolla Phone runs on Linux-based Sailfish OS, which doesn't ...

Over the past few years a number of companies including Pine64 and Purism have released smartphones designed to run mobile operating systems based on a mainline Linux kernel. But the Liberux NEXX is a ...

The company behind the Furi Labs FLX1S Linux smartphone is expanding into the enterprise space. The new Void Phone VX1 is basically a rebranded FLX1S that comes with a few bonus features made for ...

Can a long-obsolete Linux phone from 2009 be of use in 2025? [Yaky] has a Nokia N900, and is giving it a go. Back in the 2000s, Nokia owned the mobile phone space. They had a smartphone OS, even if ...

NexPhone, built by the people behind NexDock, is pitching an Android phone with Linux that can also switch into a Windows 11 setup when you need desktop apps. Use it as a normal phone, then plug it ...

With Apple caving to Trump https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...min-bragged-about-demanding-app-store-removal and Google being Google, I am more interested in than ...