After a slight delay the $149 PinePhone Linux smartphone has now started shipping to customers who have been pre-ordering the unique smartphone since it was made available back in November 2019.

The demonstration video has been published to YouTube showing the PinePhone Linux smartphone running regular Linux desktop applications in the form of Firefox, Gimp, Libreoffice and Quaternion. The ...

Linux users keeping tabs on the smartphone market may have long been wishing for an honest to goodness non-Android Linux phone. That almost came to be with Ubuntu Touch but Canonical sadly saw no ...

The PinePhone is a $150 smartphone designed to run free and open source software. For the most part that probably means users will run Linux-based operating systems that have been optimized for mobile ...

The Purism Librem 5 is a smartphone designed to run mainline GNU/Linux software with an emphasis on privacy and security. When the phone was first announced it was one of the most powerful devices of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Pine64 is on a roll. The company recently launched its $199 ...

Purism, Pine64, and Necuno Solutions are working on Linux-based smartphones. Conversely, none of those companies is marketing an actual Linux-based smartphone. Notably, Necuno Solutions and KDE are ...

Over the next 5 years, Linux is expected to be the fastest growing Smartphone OS with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 75%. By 2012, a recent study from ABI Research forecasts the ...

Linux handset fanatics have a new software toy: a security engine added to the Linux smartphone operating system from a la Mobile. The new code uses AES encryption and digital certificates to protect ...

Samsung on Thursday announced a new app, Linux on Galaxy, designed to work with its DeX docking station to bring a full Linux desktop experience to Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone users.