Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter

Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by LeonM on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:21AM (#22483091)

I was surprised how useful Dex has become, and yet no one seems to speak about it.

Currently the only thing holding me back is that my particular phone (S9+) has fairly limited resolution support. IIRC the Note models are supposed to do much better as they have a discrete GPU for Dex output.

But basically all my day-to-day development tasks can be done on Dex and a SSH/terminal app.

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Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by pmontra on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:36AM (#22484057)

I second your sentiment but the Android keyboard (external Bluetooth) is not very Linux friendly. I googled and experimented and there is no way to have an Esc key. I have to work in vi with control ], like on some broken terminal from the 80s. If anybody has a solution I'll pay with an upvote :-)

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Re:Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Ki... by LeonM on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:19AM (#22502734)

You can connect any regular keyboard through BT or USB. The escape key just works as expected.

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