The FSF celebrates four decades of software freedom with a new president and the LibrePhone initiative for privacy-focused mobile computing.

The project, developed in partnership with veteran free software developer Rob Savoye, aims to create a fully free and open mobile platform, from the firmware to the operating system.

  • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    At this point I would not be surprised if steam built on top of the deck idea and the support it already provides for fairly responsive and configurable inputs, touch screen included, to launch a steam phone or something.

    I mean deck isn’t all that far from having such a device. For the actual phone network stack they would likely just partner up with someone already in the space.

    They’ve already had to tackle powering a lightweight portable device with a touch screen and adapting the UX for a small screen and non-kbd input. They’ve already established they can source parts and mass produce a competively priced device.

    But realistically I can’t see it being that much better than the recent Linux phone offerings.

    • msage@programming.dev
      10·
      2 months ago

      None of what you described is an issue with Linux phones.

      We need open firmware for broadbands.

      • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yeah well, this is of course just a singular anecdote, but my experience with any touch-based de on Linux hasn’t been great.

        No Linux phone I have ever seen has had a particularly competitive pricing. Or specs.

        But perhaps there has been some major advancements I’m not aware of in the past week.

        In any case, your latter point is true.