Plasma Mobile is a
Plasma variant for
smartphones
A smartphone is a Mobile device, portable computer device that combines Mobile phone, mobile telephone and Mobile computing, computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities ...
.
It is currently available for the
Pinephone, and supported devices for
postmarketOS such as the
OnePlus 6.
It is shipped by several
Linux distributions, such as
postmarketOS and
Manjaro.
History
After
Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand) had given up their ambitions to release a
tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being comput ...
,
Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's
handheld work towards smartphones.
However, this stopped in 2021, with the project now being maintained by volunteers.
The official announcement of the new form-factor interface was on 25 July 2015 at
Akademy, accompanied by a working prototype running on a
Nexus 5.
began sales of their
PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.
Technology
Plasma Mobile uses
KWin's
Wayland session.
Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.
See also
*
Phosh
*
Plasma Bigscreen
*
Sxmo
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:KDE Plasma Mobile
KDE Plasma
Software that uses QML