The Liberux Nexx smartphone will be (if it makes it to the production stage) the most powerful smartphone (with the RK3588S) to run GNU/Linux and the mainline kernel. More powerful than the PinePhone Pro, or the OnePlus 6. It will have a decent OLED display, alot of RAM, and much of what you would expect from a privacy-focused GNU/Linux smartphone such as hardware killswitches.

That is to say, this phone will (hopefully if it releases) be a true daily-driver candidate for many people, more so than the current offerings are now. While I am skeptical of it (as I am with any crowdfunded project) I think this will be a great thing if it does make it to production.

Site: https://liberux.net/

Crowdfunding Link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/

  • Sims
    1•5 days ago

    Same processor as in the Orangepi 5b.

    1. Weird that they don’t promote the 3core NPU it contains. The phone will be able to run a 8b model, or image/audio models quite okay. Larger models will be too slow.
    2. Another luxury-priced Linux phone. They have to cover their expenses, and there’s a nice screen/cams, but the price difference from an Orangepi or similar sbc with an 3588s, to this product is way too big for my pocket. It’s around 5* the price for the compute.

    It should be possible to have a small portable touch-monitor as UX, and a small sbc/battery in a pocket. Or just stream a remote screen to the touch-monitor. Would prefer such a clunky solution to be honest.