Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphone OS

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 11:15, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I share Liam's view that you can forget it these days.

For what it is worth I am considering buying a used tablet to try this
out. I have met with the UBports team and follow them online, and I am
trying to keep track on what they are doing.

I wish I did not have to. I wish I could root one of my old phones or
tablets and use that but that is not the state of the Arm market
today.

>  Unlike Liam, I
> don't keep the option open that this could be different in the future.

My hope is this: Dennard scaling isn't working. Devices aren't getting
much faster. I am typing on a
2011 laptop that is fine and usable:

https://www.storagereview.com/review/lenovo-thinkpad-w520-review

Smartphones sell in the _billions_ and PCs in the millions. Already a
discarded 2nd or 3rd hand ultra cheap phone is a capable computer,
with 4+ CPU cores, a few gigs of RAM, and a few tens of gigs of flash.

There are literal tonnes of these things being discarded. The street
finds use for things. If some gadget sells well enough that developers
can get dozens or hundreds of them for testing for not much money,
then it will get cracked open and analysed and supported.

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