It’s about the new product called Plasma Mobile. It was created by the authors of the popular shell KDE (for distributions based on Linux).

Interesting opportunities of Linux-based operating system

That’s great – the platform for free Linux-based operating system. Anyone can download and install on your phone.

While there is no commercially available device supplied with the Plasma Mobile “out of the box.” However, to get acquainted with the operating system is simple enough. Already supported by the installation on the Google Nexus 5 (on the principle of Ubuntu Touch).

The solution is based on the famous assembly Kubuntu. As for the graphics driver, in his role as advocates kwin / Wayland (of Android).

The above ensures an adequate job of basic functions like application calls and notifications. Another program run by a PC – in the form of widgets KDE Plasma.

In addition, there are no problems with software written for the “related” Linux-based operating system (for example, Sailfish OS).

Source: liliputing

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It’s safe to say that for the advanced user the possibility of firmware is one of the important factors when choosing a smartphone. Under the cut we will select smartphones for which it was issued the highest number of alternative firmware.

In order to vary the material from each producer was chosen for the same device, or half the rated bold line would occupy smartphones Nexus, which would be obvious and too boring. This post is intended to show that the creators of alternative firmware are interested not only smartphones, out-of-wing Google, but devices designed other brands.

The key in the rating is the number of alternative (custom) firmware released for one or another smartphone. I think you will agree with me when I say that the most accurate information of this kind has a forum XDA-Developers – from there were taken figures that have become crucial for our members. Also consider their support for developers of such popular firmware as CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android, LiquidSmooth, SlimROM, BlissPop and others.

Oppo Find 5

Proprietary firmware Chinese smartphone now on everyone’s lips. ColorOS from Oppo, FlymeOS from MEIZU and from Xiaomi MIUI on their devices installed even owners of Nexus. But to install CyanogenMod on Chinese smartphone or the same Paranoid Android (we are talking about the official builds) were obtained in very rare cases. Of all the different phones Xiaomi team CyanogenMod officially supports only Mi2 (S), of MEIZU they do not want to hear. The only exceptions are smartphones and Oppo OnePlus, which here and there slip in the list of supported devices, alternative firmware.

The most popular smartphone Oppo be called Find 5. The forum XDA-Developers for the Find 5 is available only 12 alternative firmware. However, having dug deeper to Find 5 can be found MIUI, and Smartisan OS, and OmniROM, and as many as six Lollipop-assemblies (among which is CyanogenMod, MoKee OpenSource Project and LiquidSmooth).

OnePlus One

Interestingly, only one smartphone from our list was released in the past, in 2014, the rest – in 2013 and even earlier. Of course, waiting for alternative firmware in the flagships of 2014 was relatively less time, but the trend is that the model 2013 issue like romodelam more noticeable. Exceptions can only be HTC One (M8), which still lags behind the M7, and Nexus 6, which this year is likely to catch up.

OnePlus One is precisely thereby smartphone 2014 issue, which the creators of custom firmware is not bypassed. This is understandable, because even out of the box OnePlus One comes with a special version of CyanogenMod. According to the forum XDA-Developers, on the smartphone you can install 47 alternative firmware. Anyway, if earlier when creating firmware based on Android was considered good manners to support Nexus-smartphones, today to this rule can safely add support for devices OnePlus, what we actually observe.

Sony Xperia Z1

Sony is known for its loyalty to the developers of alternative firmware, they, in turn, respond to it in kind. The dedicated website regularly puts Sony firmware source code of their devices. At the end of November last year, the company even posted the source code AOSP Lollipop-assemblies for their latest smartphones. One of these smart phones has become a favorite for a long time romodelam Xperia Z1. On XDA-Developers for Sony Xperia Z1 can be found 73 firmware. Among them will CyanogenMod, and Paranoid Android, and PAC-man ROM, and LiquidSmooth, and SlimROM.

Moto G

It would seem, Motorola on this list should represent the public’s favorite Moto X, but it is not. If 4PDA number of firmware for Moto X and Moto G is approximately the same, at the XDA-Developers situation is quite different – from 17 to 78 Moto X at the Moto G. Among these 78 firmware can be found even such things as Firefox OS and FlymeOS.

HTC One (M7)

M7 old man still on horseback. And let him back in full breathing M8 (65 firmware vs. 79), he is doing well. Just like Sony, HTC is known for its loyalty to the developers. The site HTCdev can find the source code firmware smartphones HTC, and tools to unlock their bootloaders. And HTC One (M7), and HTC One (M8) participate in the program Google Play Edition, which, again, favorably affects the development of custom firmware for them.

LG G2

In 2013, LG has managed to present an extremely successful leader of a capacious battery, excellent display with narrow frames and a good camera. Custom firmware did not take long to wait. For LG G2 them have as many as 80. Among the users of G2 popular custom bikes on the basis of the original firmware, and on the basis of pure Android. The latter, by the way, a lot of presents. Almost every more or less large development team supports LG G2. For this smartphone released LiquidSmooth, CyanogenMod 12, BlissPop, SlimLP, OmniRom and others.

Google Nexus 5

Truly “People» Nexus, which is thousands of enthusiasts around the world day and night tirelessly stitch has been for almost a half years. Like any other Nexus-smartphone, after his announcement Nexus 5 was doomed to the emergence of dozens of alternative firmware. At the moment, they number 105. As I wrote above, when creating a custom firmware based on Android support for Nexus 5 is good manners, so rest assured – all that will come up romodely, the first step will be implemented on this smartphone. C on the other hand, it is necessary to accept the fact that soon will receive laurels Nexus 5 Nexus 6, and our favorite sink into oblivion, which, however, in any case inevitable.

Samsung Galaxy S4

Honestly, presenting this ranking, I could not imagine that any Samsung smartphone will be able to get around in it Nexus 5. But it is true. Today at XDA-Developers has 160 firmware for this smartphone. How did it happen? I am inclined to think that such a number of alternative firmware for Galaxy S4 is explained on the basis of custom bikes as the original firmware Samsung, and on the basis of pure Android. Add this to Google Play Edition-version of the smartphone with not the most powerful, yet Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and get almost ideal conditions for the emergence of custom bikes.

HTC HD2

Without exaggeration, the legendary machine rightly occupies the top spot in our ranking. It seems that enthusiasts were able to run on it all, except, perhaps, Falcon 9. Out of the box HTC HD2 or HTC Leo is running the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, seasoned with a proprietary shell HTC Sense. By the way, he was released more than five (!) Years ago.

Ported to the HTC HD2 Android, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Phone, MeeGo and Firefox OS. Ported firmware update for HTC HD2 come today. For example, on the eve of 2015 failed to start HD2 Android Lollipop.

Conclusion – best smartphones 2015 for firmware

As you can see, this rating has much in common with our recent material about the actual ex-champions, which once again proves that they should not be written off. And what a smartphone is the most pierced you?

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Google has officially introduced a new generation of smart phones – Nexus 5. As expected, it was a smartphone from LG with a 4.95-inch Full HD-screen, 8 MP camera with optical stabilization, two versions of the built-in storage capacity of 16 GB and 32 GB, and, unfortunately, the only one embodiment of the battery capacity of 2300 mA * h

The screen protects new items tempered glass Corning Gorilla Glass 3, the very same matrix is ​​built on the technology, IPS. Dimensions of the smartphone are 137.84 h69, 17h8, 59 mm (I wonder why point to the official website as accurate information?), And weight – 130 in order to be able to imagine the dimensions of the Google Nexus 5, we propose to compare the most popular models Android-smartphone equipped with 5-inch displays, or so. Interestingly, the power button and adjustment made ceramic. This solution allows less worried about mechanical damage and for some time already used on smartphones Nokia Lumia.

According to the manufacturer, the battery of 2300 mAh should be enough for 17 hours of talk time, 60 hours of music, 300 hours of standby time, 8.5 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi or 7:00 using LTE-network. Like its predecessor, the current flagship Google supports wireless charging. Smartphone can work in a Wi-Fi-network a / b / g / n / ac standard (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), is NFC-module and Bluetooth 4.0. In addition, there is a set consisting of: a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, compass, pressure sensor, proximity and light.

As for the camera, but this time the smartphone Google does not have to blush before the other opponents, despite remaining the same resolution main camera 8 MP, its equipped with optical image stabilization system, but the front seems to have remained the same – 1.3 MP capable of recording 720p video.

As the hardware platform used by SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, similar to that installed in the LG G2, Sony Xperia Z1, Nokia Lumia 1520. The RAM is 2 GB, 16 GB volume constant, or 32 GB. Perhaps, the smartphone will support USB OTG, since the used hardware platform easily detects all sorts of Flash-drives and peripherals.

The cost of 16GB version when ordering from Google Play Store is $ 349, 32GB version will cost $ 50 more. Note that the first wave of smart phones already available, they dismantled in less than an hour.

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It seems that the Canadian mobile operator Wind Mobile tired of waiting for the official announcement of the smartphone Nexus 5 and decided on their own to provide all the expected novelty.

On its official page on Facebook Wind Mobile has started taking pre-orders for the Nexus 5. It is also not difficult to publish a full list of features of the new “Google Phone”.

According to Wind Mobile, the smartphone is equipped with a 4.95-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels (PPI – 445 pixels per inch). From scratches and damage shield protects the tempered glass Gorilla Glass 3. The basis is a smartphone SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, which includes a 4-core CPU (2,3 GHz).

The list of characteristics are also 2 GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of internal flash memory, dual-band wireless module Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), module Bluetooth (4.0) and NFC, 1,3-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel main camera with optical image stabilization system.

With dimensions of 137.84 h69, 17h8, 59 mm, the device weighs 130 g Works 5 Nexus smartphone running Android KitKat, cost starts at $ 349.

At the time of writing news for the design of pre-order form on the Nexus is not available.

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With the upcoming announcement of the new “Google Phone” Nexus 5 there are more details about it. At this time, accidentally or intentionally hit the Net Press news images in two colors: white and black.

Both images were published resource Evleaks ‘s official blog Twitter. According to him, the supply of Nexus 5 will begin on November 1, and the cost of the smartphone starts at $ 349 for the version with 16 GB of internal flash memory.

According to preliminary data, the basis of the smartphone Nexus 5 is a SoC Snapdragon 800 with a 4-core processor running at 2.3 GHz. New also receive a 4.95-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and will be offered in two versions with 16 and 32 GB of internal flash memory type. It is expected that the role assigned to the operating system Android 4.4 KitKat.

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It seems that even before the announcement of the new Google Nexus, we are going to know everything about him. Android Police get their hands on 281 -page service manual Nexus 5 (version D821). This leak talks about all the characteristics of a smartphone with the details . We already know that the Nexus 5, a 4.95 -inch display, a 2.3GHz Snapdragon processor 800, 2GB RAM , inductive charging and NFC. Current LTE band pattern (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 20) are optimized in Asia and Europe.

Let’s move to the new data: 8 – megapixel camera with optical image stabilization and a 1.3 – megapixel camera on the front. Built-in memory – 32 GB, 2300 mAh battery . IPS display has a resolution of 1080p. To display the screen on the TV or monitor uses technology Slimport ( as in the Nexus 4). A standard set of sensors for the phone (gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, light sensor and approximation), but there is also a sensor that monitors the force of compression device. Of course on the front of the machine, there is an indicator of notifications and phone only works with the Micro SIM. The only thing that is strange – the instruction notes Bluetooth 3.0, not 4.0 as everyone expected .

You can familiarize yourself with the service manual, but note that it is in English : LG D821.

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Myce.com site claims to have discovered a log file that is stored on your smartphone Nexus 5. Given the large number of rumors about the Nexus 5, which have long begun to appear, is not very surprising, and the fact that there are news about the new version of Android. Moreover, many even surprised so little leakage, taking into account that Google shows a new version of the world and smartphone next month.

According Myce, log size of 10 MB and contains 133,000 rows, but it is completely impossible to publish on the grounds that it contains information that may help to know the identity of the owner of the device with Android 4.4 KitKat on board.

This build shows that it is installed on the device “Hammerhead” – which is a smart phone LG-D820, which, in turn, is the future of smart phone from Google – Nexus 5.

In any case, the log shows that the device display with Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080), and the pixel density of 443 ppi, which “corresponds to about a 5- inch display,” as reported by Android Police.

Also available is a screenshot of the system, which did not show anything particularly interesting – only the new icons in the status bar.

One of the icon resembles a piece of cake – perhaps this is because Google was going to call your system Key Lime Pie (key lime pie). Even the system is defined as Key Lime Pie, which is quite strange.

KRS74H collected on September 12, which means it’s fairly recent release (of course, if it’s not Fake). Finally, lines revealed the presence of sensors Qualcomm.

Interestingly, Google will introduce a new Android 4.4?

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Less than a week since then, as there were rumors about the release of the new Nexus-smartphone by Motorola in Q4, but over the past few days we have heard that the device Google Nexus 5 will be based on the recently introduced LG G2, and this information is constantly changing and refined. For example, only the day before claiming that the device will get processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, but according to the latest information, it will still be more powerful Snapdragon 800. On top of that, this time it was explained in detail what changes will occur in the design of the device.

According to one of Vietnamese sites, Nexus 5 will be more similar to Google Nexus 4 than LG G2 due to the use of glass as a coating not only on the front panel, but also at the rear. In addition to disappear quite unusual and controversial design element – buttons adjust the volume and switch on the rear panel. Even speak of such trifles as the location of the main camera – it will be closer to the lateral edge of the body, rather than to stay in between.

Despite the significant external differences in technical characteristics it will be almost the same smartphone, at least now we know the same processor and 5.2-inch thin FullHD display. Despite all the above, it is worth remembering that we are on shaky ground rumors, too much trust in who should not. But if, as the original source, Nexus 5 will be available at the output of the same price as the Nexus 4, the smartphone will just sweep to the “shelf” online stores.

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Unofficial sources once again “confirmed” that, as suggested earlier, the smartphone Google Nexus 5 will be based on the LG G2, but will get a somewhat changed the filling. This device can be presented in October, but, oddly enough, its specifications are expected to be weaker than the leader of the South Korean company. Namely, it is a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor Snapdragon 800 instead of 600, 2 GB of RAM and a 10 megapixel camera sensor with 13 megapixels G2.

In addition to this, the device will be reduced by half the amount of internal memory: Nexus 5 will be sold in two versions, with 8 or 16 GB of flash memory, priced at 299 and 349 dollars respectively. And this fact, unfortunately, disappointing – it seems that the issue at the end of 2013 with 8 GB flagship without the possibility of its expansion with microSD cards simply not permissible, and no cloud user can not save. But, as stated in the original news, Google Nexus 5 could be the first device that will be “out of the box” to work on Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.

But, after all, what with the Nexus-smartphone from Motorola? Who knows. Maybe it will be released just two Nexus. Maybe it will only Nexus from Motorola, and the rumors of the LG Nexus will remain just rumors. Or vice versa. In general, as you know, is still not clear what kind of Nexus we’ll see this fall, but the latest rumors about this device look funny – it will be interesting to find out which ones are true.

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