The OnePlus Watch 2 has 2 chips, and basically runs a lightweight OS while keeping the hungry one in very very low power, and only powering it up when necessary.

I was thinking that maybe such idea could be applied on a Linux phone that could run all your banking apps without Waydroid’s “you-must-be-a-hacker” issues, literally by having a half-asleep Android running on another chip, which you can wake up whenever to do your “non-hacker” things, while at the same time you can run the rest of your system (calls, messaging, calculator, calendar, browser…) on your lightweight, private and personalized Linux mobile OS.

I think I would pay big bucks for something like this, and it could serve as a transition device for ditching Android in the future when Tux finally governs over the world.

What do you guys think?

    • Peasley@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      Pretty sure it just had an emulation layer for Android. I had a Passport when it was new, and I remember the phone was emulating a version of Android a few years old, so a few apps didn’t work properly

      • kuneho@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, it was already on old enough version when it was a thing.

        But to my understanding, it wasn’t emulation, rather having a compatibility layer between QNX and Android.

        so AFAIK, it was rather like Proton on Linux? but maybe I’m totally wrong here, haha.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
          4·
          8 months ago

          I worked at BlackBerry (many years later) and this was my understanding. They were brutally reimpmementing all the Android APIs

            • Peasley@lemmy.world
              2·
              8 months ago

              I was really impressed with the hub. Such a well-implemented feature. I also miss the led that would blink a different color for different types of notifications or conversations