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Cake day: September 19th, 2022

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  • Huh? I was not aware they stopped selling the FP5 on their main shop. But it is still easily available with other online retailers. The FP6 is sadly a bit of a down-grade as it lacks some important features like display out and USB3.

    The FP5 can run Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS quite well, yes.

    My impression is that this NexPhone just uses Android16’s built in virtualization features to run Linux and Windows. The FP5 will also be able to do that once the Android16 update becomes available for it in the near future.












  • They are basically what is left of Nokia’s efforts with the N900 and N9 back in the day. But they chose a semi-closed source business model which severely limited community uptake and then seemingly got overwhelmed with maintaining their software-stack so now a lot of it is very outdated; which is why they are now slowly open-sourcing it, but it is probably too little and too late.

    Edit: and their mix up with some Russian business (not sure about the current status of it) also doesn’t help instill confidence.