Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to challenge ...

The NexPhone is a smartphone that combines Android, Linux and a fully-fledged Windows 11. The robust device relies on an ...

Motorola and PalmSource are among the companies that lined up behind a new initiative Monday that aims to promote the use of the Linux operating system on cell phones. The Mobile Linux Initiative was ...

The most popular Linux distribution for phones and tablets is (probably) postmarketOS, and there’s a new release to get excited about. postmarketOS v25.06 comes with new versions of KDE Plasma Mobile ...

CORRECTION: The fourth paragraph of this story has been changed to clarify when the software first became available. A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM ...

postmarketOS, the Linux distribution for phones and tablets, just released a new major update. It's still not a full-fledged replacement for Android or iOS, but now it has more supported hardware, an ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

Plasma Mobile is a user interface for mobile Linux distributions that includes a mix of features borrowed from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and mixes in some mobile-specific components designed ...

Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on something new: the ...