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Liberux Nexx: An interview with Liberux about their made-in-EU OSHW Linux Phone


LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

It's also somewhat modular (cellular modem, RAM, and storage are on modules) and they aim to open-source the hardware and plan to manufacture the devices in Spain - meaning, the Liberux Nexx will be (successful funding assumed) be one of the only (?) Regarding WiFi/BT and LTE/5G: Purism made the unusual choice of making these socketed and exchangeable; I presume this is not the case with your design, the hardware kill switches ensure that components can be truly turned of. We’re developing a dedicated daemon to manage power more efficiently—it will shut down and wake up CPU cores depending on load, adjust frequencies dynamically, and optimize idle performance.

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