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Liberux Nexx: Linux smartphone (found on Galaxus, Swiss online reseller)

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Previous discussion (with some calling it a scam): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559

The Shutterstock comment[0] is dispositive: one of their alleged photos of alleged human employees is a verifiably fake image, with a background that matches a stock photo. (2,2 on their "Meet our Team" section, "Ricardo Mesía / Marketing & Comunications". Does not exist).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804081

What I see here is a big Opus Dei family full of business contacts but no technical background. I'm not on front of my keyboard right now, but the Pasquín Echanove family is big and have been controlling parts of Spanish (and US) banks. But I don't think they have any future on this. I wouldn't give them a single Euro.

For context, this article comes from galaxus.ch, the most widely used online reseller in Switzerland. It basically replaces amazon, amazon does not exist in Switzerland.

>Whether the smartphone with promising hardware will actually see the light of day, however, will depend on its crowdfunding campaign, which will start soon.

So it's not an actual product yet just some renderings.

Apparently, still in crowdfunding, and not available yet?

On the other hand, Sailfish phones (https://sailfishos.org/) are Linux-based, tout "Fourth generation security", can run Android apps (the killer feature!), and - most importantly - are available now.

Can they run obnoxious Android banking apps that refuse to run on rooted phones etc.

Tried it just now with two banks: one worked, the other didn't.

FWIW, I'm using the German DKB Android app (which seems to require non-rooted phones) without issues on my Sailfish OS phone.

Asking the real questions! I can't use NFC transit cards because Google wallet doesn't trust my phone

I'm not sure I'd call anything using libhybris "Linux-based". Their low-level elements come from Android with all the problems that implies, including Android being Linux only in the most irrelevant technical sense.

Sailfish is based on the Linux kernel, and Mer, which itself is a fork of MeeGo - a mobile Linux distro.

Hybris is just one component that Mer supports: a compatibility layer which allows the use of Android libraries and drivers. But that doesn't make it the backbone of Sailfish...

I'd say those drivers and libraries are the backbone of an OS. Everything else is on top of them.

Crowdfunding scam waiting to happen. RK3588s is not phone-capable by any means.

What makes it not-phone-capable? The non-s variant powers the "open source laptop" that was on the front page a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260

Power profile. The SoC will need more space for battery and cooling that's physically possible in the smartphone formfactor.

At full speed sure, but if they use the metal chassis as a heatsink and downclock it a bit it ought to be fine, right? There are rk3588 SBCs sold without any heatsink at all (and I'm sure that does result in throttling, but presumably it's manageable)

Not sure but gonna guess power.

Volla Phone Quintus with a 6-nanometer Mediatek Dimensity 7050 processor is another option: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/volla-phone-quintus#/?per...

Well, the Quintus is an option, but I wouldn't call the Nexx more than a render or a mockup right now. ;)

At least not another spyphone.

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