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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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What happened to the PinePhone? (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You’re describing a ton of features that a smart watch does not need. It doesn’t need wifi or a camera, for example.

I agree, I was just demonstrating that you could have a tiny chip packed full of features as well as optimized sleep states to really save on power, and it still runs out of power on the same scale as a smartphone, due to the sole reason that it's not actually allowed to go to sleep and still function as a watch.

Most get around this by not displaying the time unless you shake the watch awake (which I find hilarious), or running at extremely low clock-rates in which case the latency in user-interaction suffers.

The problem is that they require proprietary apps and a cloud account you have no control over.

Agreed. SQFMI's Watchy powered by the fantastic ESP32 seemed promising, but despite having a full bluetooth/wifi stack is very limited in other features.