Um, my phone?
You should update the list with Linux phones.
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My miyo mini plus and steam deck are pretty fun.
termux
SteamDeck.
Yeah I love my steam deck. Works great in a usb c dock as well.
I also like ANBERNIC RG28XX and PinePhone/PinePhone Pro with or without the keyboard/battery extension.
ANBERNIC RG40XX H with Knulli is nice too.
I don’t know that I’ve used enough handheld Linux devices to say. The only major one was I had Debian on my Surface Go 1. Power management never worked quite right - after a few suspends, I’d get these weird graphics glitches and have to reboot.
Also, I kind of hated the keyboard- it wasn’t very sturdy and often flexed, causing accidental trackpad clicks.
I still have the device, but when I need a portable Linux machine, I just go to my Thinkpad these days, which other than installing the backports kernel for Wi-Fi support and then adjusting the modprobe.d entry because it was Realtek pretty much just goes brrrr - even my desktop gave more of fuss, as I used to be in a room without ethernet and needed a card that worked with Windows, Linux, and Hackintosh (from before I got rid of my Windows install and my Hackintosh SSD conked out, leading me to switch to virtualization).
...handheld Linux what?
what is your goal? My immediate thought was the Steam Deck but looking at the examples you're looking for something else.
A minipc or phone like handheld that can be used for Linux. Not for gaming. More like a full Linux phone with control.
Not one of the ones you listed has a cellular module.
not anywhere in my sentence did I say I wanted it… ;)
I think one of those is sim capable though actually! But regardless, I meant what I said minipc or phone like, not cellular capable
Uconsole bigger one - https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm
Beepberry - https://beepy.sqfmi.com/
https://liliputing.com/beepberry-is-a-79-hackable-pocket-computer-kit-with-a-blackberry-keyboard/Colorberry - https://www.elecrow.com/colorberry.html
https://github.com/hyphenlee/colorberryPC Pilet old but cool looking one - https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pilet-mini-pi-5-modular-computer/ESP32 - ESP32 is a SoC, example of handheld using it is the LILYGO T-Deck Plus - https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-t-deck-plus-an-esp32-handheld-device-with-gps-and-lora-support/Mecha Comet with the switchable keyboards - https://mecha.so/comet
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/modular-linux-handheld-mecha-comet/
Some links to help checking out the handhelds mentioned.
That's some wiered/cool stuff I have ever heard off ! I have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at but somehow I want one of those !
That's the kind of cool niche stuff that is missing here on Lemmy !
Thanks!! :)
Zaurus
/jk (￣▽￣)ノ
I have a whole bunch of these:
- DevTerm
- uConsole
- GameShell
- BeepBerry
- PocketCHIP
- PICOmputer 28
Non-Linux:
- Hand386
- Book 8088
- Forth Deck
- T-Deck
I'm looking at getting a couple more as well. Honestly I don't have much use for any of them but my favourite and the one I have used practically the most is my DevTerm. I love the style, the screen, its just a really fun little device.