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Fairphone 5 Released
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Interesting how they went for an IoT SoC (Qualcomm QCM 6490), instead for an SoC that's actually meant for usage in phones.
They probably did this to be able to get longer Android updates. As a side effect, that means it natively supports desktop Ubuntu and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise.
On the other hand, this is pretty much the only phone using this SoC. (There are three models by a totally unknown brand from India that use the same SoC.)
It's going to be interesting to see whether that's an advantage or a disadvantage.
Mhm desktop ubuntu phone sound fun, or even desktop windows
That's what the SoC supports. Let's see what the phone ends up supporting. But I agree, it does sound fun.