Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Post by maxerickson » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 12:52 PM UTC

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #128

baldfat wrote: post #112

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AT&T killed that idea fast 6 years ago. When the Motorola Atrix came out with the ability to do that AT&T charge a $20 tethering fee to use the laptop dock with the phone! That blew my mind. The phone wasn't tethering data to anything but itself. https://www.wired.com/2011/03/motorola-atrix/

Tethering fees are another "brilliant" invention by the customer-hating American telcos. You get a set amount of data per month, for instance 20GB. Why should they care at all what you decide to use that data for?

Post by herbst » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 12:54 PM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #123

herbst wrote: post #121

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You didnt. And some others as well. But plenty, especially professionals, still do. Not to mention that nearly all laptops except Apple & Microsofts (which are in minority) are upgradeable to some degree. Written from my Thinkpad :)

I have a thinkpad (x1 carbon) and it's definitely not upgradeable :-) The people who will buy a phone dock are probably also the same people that value ultra-lightweight devices, so I don't think you're in the same bracket as them

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 1:03 PM UTC

JorgeGT wrote: post #10

It's quite interesting that with the power of today's mobile devices (multicore 1GHz+ CPUs, GPUs, 2Gb+ RAM) we still don't have a standardized interface to plug them into desktop peripherals and launch a desktop OS/GUI. One would thing that such an universal interface would quickly become a standard offering in airports, hotels, libraries, conferences, etc.

Post by pjc50 » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 1:07 PM UTC

xxs wrote: post #106

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Until USB-C it doesn't carry analog audio. Like the iPod itself, it's not a question of new functionality, but better usability/popularity of existing functionality. The revolutionary aspect was that you could just drop an iPod into the dock and it would start playing your music through the dock's speakers, while also charging. This didn't require the dock to be "smart", it was analog audio.

>>This didn't require the dock to be "smart", it was analog audio. Not smart, just have a 30pin connector. Having DAC on board would be trivial (esp. after paying the royalties for the connector). So calling it revolutionary is just being an Apple shill.

Post by jhasse » Thu, Oct 19, 2017, 1:10 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #80

Brakenshire wrote: post #76

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I don't think it's just that, the point is that under the current Android HW situation, phones are locked to kernel versions. Any necessary kernel updates after release are then manually back ported to that kernel version. So that means you won't be able to install any Linux system, you'll have to run that provided by Samsung, running their own custom kernel. Although I agree we should be supportive.

The kernel sources are all out there, the kernel part of the BSP is GPL by necessity. Samsung actually makes some effort to upstream a certain amount of the kernel code coming from their chipset vendors (because Samsung uses entirely different chipsets for different markets, so it's more convenient to have fewer downstream patches). There is nothing, and I mean nothing, to stop you from forward-porting any driver or…