Linux and Smartphones OS

[gadget42]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/qualcomm-says-it-built-a-better-satellite-messaging-system-than-apple/

[mocore]

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/11aj686/talk_by_richard_stallman_on_march_17th_regarding/

https://www.fsf.org/events/talk-by-rms-on-march-17 # A tour of malicious software, with a typical cell phone as example

[gadget42]

good information!

https://www.optoutproject.net/a-better-cell-phone/

author's website:
https://janet.vertesi.com/

mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@cyberlyra

[gadget42]

Defending Yourself From Apple's Design Mistakes - Michael Horowitz

https://michaelhorowitz.com/apple.security.php

keyword(s):
iphone
ipad
ipod

also see:
https://defensivecomputingchecklist.com/

[gadget42]

saw this in odroid magazine and thought to share:

https://magazine.odroid.com/article/odroid-go-advance-cell-phone-a-custom-built-and-coded-cell-phone/

[gadget42]

posting these mostly for future visitors interested in the smartphone situation(s)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-apps-to-block-sideloading-and-push-a-google-play-version/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/loss-of-popular-2fa-tool-puts-security-minded-grapheneos-in-a-paradox/

[mocore]

posting these mostly for future visitors interested in the smartphone situation(s)

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https://linmob.net LINux on MOBile

 https://linmob.net/fosdem2025/ many related tangents

[mocore]

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 https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/nokias_next-day_internal_competitive_analysis_of_the_original_iphone
these comments about keyboard ui/ux caught my attention

The on-screen keyboard is mentioned only in passing on a deck titled “Other Great Innovations” as “Predictive, corrective input from on-screen qwerty-keypad”. Most of the existing smartphone makers simply could not believe the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard would work. Steve Ballmer famously laughed his way into getting sacked from Microsoft over the iPhone’s price and lack of a hardware keyboard. BlackBerry was obsessed with hardware keyboards. This Nokia deck is remarkably open to the idea that Apple was onto something. It does have a bullet point, under “iPhone has the biggest impact on the definition of coolness” (true!), that states: “Even though Steve Jobs emphasized iPhone superiority to ‘Buttons’, it is to be expected that the Consumer QWERTY category will continue to succeed.” But still, this deck is remarkable for acknowledging the potential significance of the iPhone’s keyboard.

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i would never buy a mobile computer without a proper screen+keyboard any more. but i have 3 backup thinkpads which should last a long time anyways

though wrt phones im mostly in agreement with hiro
disposable tablets are increasingly ubiquitous

mobian afaik has the most comparable wrt  touchscreen keyboard

+ iv all ways wondered if any thing comparable cmd can  run osk fom terminal ?

[mocore]

mobian afaik has the most comparable wrt  touchscreen keyboard

which after a little more scrutiny it appears  unfortunately  depends on wayland/gnome & systemd ,..

fortunately
( for any humans reading )  i just discovered "Movuan"
"Devuan derived distribution for Mobile Phones - Movuan" @ https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7094

which might provide a more interesting alternative ....

especially if any reincarnation of dcore or similar re-appears

--- also Maemo Leste which ( according to auto-spam-suggest was/is also devuan based  )
was previously mentioned @ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=25475.msg163225#msg163225

...ftr
it appears there are builds for raspberry-pi 2,3,4 and many other arm devices
and..

There is also a 64bit virtual machine you can use to try out Maemo Leste.

https://leste.maemo.org/Virtual_Machine
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Converting the qcow2 image to raw allows it to be used on real hardware.

[mocore]

+ iv all ways wondered if any thing comparable cmd can  run osk fom terminal ?

just to clarify my meaning hear


can core(.gz) alone support some kind of onscreen keyboard ?

some tablets appear to have ( i presume in somekind of efi frame buffer .all though the precise terminology is over my heat atm )
onscreen keyboard available in eg grub2 or syslinux for text input 

although using different/non-default resolutions can make it scale wrong
i guess it might ( not shore how ) be available after *whatever* kernel gfx driver(s) takes over display (buffer?? yes i likely read much and understand little ) 
 
if not id take a wild guess an osk could potentially be supported in core.gz terminal via some kernel/driver config  + (imaginary afaik unimplemented) software

but likely getting such a setup working
would endup  being less generic and more tied to *whatever* specific hw 

there are 9 pages for "Search results for: touch screen" atm

one that grabs my attention atm mentions

poorly built firmware in the touch controller.

[mocore]

just ftr/fwiw 

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/400

PostmarketOS is currently replacing osk-sdl with unl0kr which is using LVGL and renders directly to the Linux framebuffer

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/400#issuecomment-1518312249

https://github.com/zrafa/onscreenkeyboard