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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

When my Graphene'd Pixel 7 goes out of support I'm switching to something Linux based even if I have to get a Raspberry Pi and a case and carry around a brick. My handbag's big enough.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

I REALLY wanted to do a pi phone, and while it's very possible to make a working phone/tablet out of one, their power consumption is absolutely awful. Most of the linux capable SBC's can't do low power.

I want an 8" linux touch screen with 18h of moderate usage batter life, I'm even willing to carry around a separate 4g access point.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I found this. Its a Raspberry Pi in a brick case with a screen and a 4G modem.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda funny that for all the downsides, the one that made me say oof was resistive touch.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Resistive pretty much requires a stylus to be usable with any accuracy. It's like going back to '90s era PDAs.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Furi's FLX1s seems like a valid alternative.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago

CM5s have 16GB of ram, some people might be building a postmarket os port for it too. Just need someone to design phone hardware for it.