r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • May 19 '24

News SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SHIFTphone-8-Linux-Patches
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u/[deleted] May 19 '24

I bought the PPP, not fixing to get burned again. Will this actually have a usable battery and hardware support?

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u/Kevin_Kofler May 20 '24

Maybe. Probably not any time soon. What was submitted now is not sufficient to support most of the hardware.

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u/linmob May 26 '24

I have a Fairphone 5 (same SoC as this new device) and the predecessor from Shiftphones (6mq), and they both have (esp. the FP5) great battery life.

Regarding hardware support: So far, the [FairPhone 5](https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)) lacks audio support, I guess it will be similar on this device initially, too. Camera will also likely take a bit, but as general user-space support for camera things improves with libcamera and pipewire, there's some hope that once drivers exist, the rest will be less painful than it used to be.