When the PinePhone began shipping to early adopters, it had all the hardware you’d expect from a smartphone, but it lacked the software needed to make some of that hardware work. If you were one of the first people to get your hands on a PinePhone, you had a Linux-friendly phone with a camera that […]
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Purism’s Librem One suite of apps offers ad-free, privacy-focused chat, email, social media (for a fee)
Purism sells a line of laptops that ship with GNU/Linux software and which support privacy features including physical kill switches for the cameras, microphones, and wireless cards. The social purpose corporation is also developing the Librem 5 smartphone, which should ship with a Linux-based operating system later this year. Now Purism is moving beyond hardware […]
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Matrix PowerWatch charges while you wear it, thanks to body heat (crowdfunding)
Most wearable devices like smartwatches or fitness trackers need to be charged every few days, or every few weeks. But the makers of the Matrix PowerWatch are launching a crowdfunding project for an activity-tracking watch that you may never need to plug in at all. That’s because the Matrix PowerWatch is designed to constantly charge […]