Concerns over US-China relations may push Xiaomi, Oppo, vivo, and OnePlus to prepare a 'Plan B' for their Android software.
    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Yeah I was going to say there is very little alternative from iOS and Android or its derivatives. There used to be Windows Phones very breifly, but they’re gone now.

      Anthing else has to emulate the other OS to run mobile apps.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    188·
    6 days ago

    Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.

    several prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services.

    Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn’t Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    6 days ago

    We need phones with standard Linux. Without strange “Java only mediator” or something. Just a normal OS.

    Android is a pain in the ass.

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      6 days ago

      Exact! And please no bloatware!!

      Oh wait, before anything else : NO, and I really mean NO AI and/or VR shit. Just none. None A T A L L

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Honestly, I think the old FirefoxOS could do well these days. Literally everything an app can do can be done by a browser with a decent caching/local storage scheme. Slap a decent camera on that and it would be amazing.

    • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I was given an old Chromebook tablet by a friend that wanted to get rid of it, and it just happened to have mainline Linux support. I was able to get postmarketOS running on it, and got gnome shell mobile as the DE. It works, and works well. The apps that support the touch interface and are made to be responsive, etc work really well, and the waydroid integegration works fantastically well. I was able to get android version of jellyfin working, with vlc, and a few other apps I use daily. All this in 4GB of ram, I’m really impressed! This screenshot was running gnome shell I think, I’ve since switch to the ‘mobile’ variant of it, and running system monitor with android vlc and android jellyfin running, zoomed out so you could see all the apps running at once.

      1000011835

      Its time for a Linux phone, I put in an order for the 2nd batch of this phone, hopefully they start shipping soon, they supposedly already shipped the first batch to users.

      https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

      • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        They have been promising a good Linux phone for forever. Is this one any good? Will support last?

        • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          No idea as i haven’t gotten mine yet. They’re still filling the next pre-order batch of production, but from the reviews on their website, it seems as responsive as you’d expect from android, which was a huge problem with Dev phones like the pinephone, they were way too sluggish with terrible battery life.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    We are going to move away from Google, by basing our new future on AOSP, which is also primary maintained by Google…I smell another FireOS level product on the horizon. Still Android, but worse.

    • Overshoot2648@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Fuschia? That was a Google alternative to Linux that never panned out. It was weird with streams instead of files.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    You probably should’ve led with the fact that this is Chinese phones, not like Samsung and shit.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    It makes sense for Chinese smartphone OEMs to move away from the Google version of Android. In the medium to long term you are setting up yourself for failure if you are reliant on an American company.

    Unfortunately, the United States cannot be trusted.