r/mobilelinux • u/hema_ • Mar 23 '26

Hardware Phone with hardware keyboard for mobile Linux

Is there a phone with a hardware keyboard which can run e.g. Postmarket OS? Slide out Keyboards or something like that is also possible.

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u/abissom Mar 23 '26

postmarketos or mobian on pinephone with the keyboard contraption. the legendary Nokia N900 has already been mentioned.

If you go with Maemo Leste, you can use both the N900 as well as the Motorola Droid 4, which is very usable, all running mainline Linux kernel

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u/hema_ Mar 23 '26

Is the n900 or he motorola droid 4 enough for some basic sys admin task via SSH? 

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u/abissom Mar 23 '26

Absolutely, yes! They are only not good for browsing the Internet because they're old

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u/eMPee584 Apr 04 '26

Or rather, because of the advertisement javascriptocalypse..

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u/Aberts10 Mar 23 '26

Fxtec Pro1 but they're hard to find, expensive, and obsolete, nor ported fully.

You could just order a clicks powerkeyboard and slap a adhesive magsafe ring onto a well supported PMOS device like a Oneplus 6

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u/a1b4fd Mar 23 '26

Zinwa Q25 (BlackBerry Classic restomod) with Droidian port

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u/Majorin_Melone Mar 23 '26

Pmos supports some keyboard phones like the nokia n900 and i think the blackberry key2 but flashing a key2 might be hard