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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (35/2026): Funded Flatpaks
Camera support progress on the Shift6mq and Pixel 9a, The Sovereign Tech Agency announcing a major investment in Flatpak. The Jolla Phone has passed 15,000 preorders with 2,500 units already delivered, and gets an OS update with Sailfish OS 5.2.0.17. Also: independent volume control for media, notifications and calls landing in postmarketOS Phosh... and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress
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. Also: Phosh 0.57.0 is out, Sailfish OS gets a 5.2 Jolla Phone update, Tuba 0.11.0 ships UnifiedPush support, and someone is running Minecraft at a stable 25fps on a OnePlus 8T with postmarketOS.
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (33/2026): NFC in Plasma
NFC integration is landing in Plasma Mobile, and Bazaar has been accepted into GNOME Circle, an official Signal Desktop ARM64 beta (.deb + AppImage only). On the hardware side, Dawndrums has received the Divine D MainPCB Rev. 1.1 and is sharing early DawnOS test results, mainlining progress on other (used) devices and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2026): Sensor Bonanza
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!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (31/2026): Reported Progress
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!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (30/2026): 24.04-1.4 and -2.0
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 has a working Orca screen reader and more!
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping
GNOME OS has been demoed running on a Fairphone 5 at GUADEC 2026, Phosh's immutable BengalOS booted on a Pixel 3a, and more!