LINux on MOBile

A bunch of hardware enablement news, progress on the Commodore Callback and dawndrums Divine D, the schedule of the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference and more!

Camera support progress on the Shift6mq and Pixel 9a, The Sovereign Tech Agency announcing a major investment in Flatpak.

A huge week for Fairphone 6 mainline kernel hardware enablement: first the main camera, then all three cameras, then audio — and VoLTE emergency calling has been tested end-to-end.

NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only).

A postmarketOS July update, Fairphone 6 "sensor bonanza", Jolla Phone batch deliveries continue with people sharing first impressions of Sailfish OS 5.2, non-adaptive apps are now hidden in Phosh by default on pmOS edge, and more!

Highlights of the past week: Progress reports on PureOS and the Mecha Comet, Phosh Development News plus a nice project by Phosh.mobi e.V, a video on the Jolla Phone 2, some nice hardware enablement news, and more!

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 are both out, Jolla Phone batch #1 is shipping with Sailfish OS 5.2 notes published, huge Fairphone 6 postmarketOS advancements, Pixel 9a porting progress, PINE64 released the full PinePhone 3D files, and Plasma Mobile…

GNOME OS has been demoed running on a Fairphone 5 at GUADEC 2026, Phosh's immutable BengalOS booted on a Pixel 3a, and more!

Quick and dirty three-week catch-up: the Jolla Phone finally landed in backers' hands at the Day1 event in Helsinki, FuriOS 14.0.3 shipped face authentication and Vulkan with swipe typing on the way, Phosh 0.56.0 is out, postmarketOS gets Plasma 6.7 and b…

postmarketOS v26.06 "Alpen Avocado" is out, and Commodore is back with a flip phone running Sailfish OS — at a price.