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Plasma Mobile
Plasma workspace variant for smartphones From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones.[2][3][4] It is currently available for the PinePhone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.[5]
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.[6]
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History
After Plasma Active sponsor Coherent Theory (under the Make·Play·Live brand)[7][8] had given up their ambitions to release a tablet computer,[9] Blue Systems emerged as a new sponsor in 2015 and shifted the focus of Plasma's handheld work towards smartphones.[10][11] 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.[2] Pine64 began sales of their PinePhone mobile device, with the KDE Community Edition being made available as pre-orders on 1 December 2020.[12][13]
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Technology
Plasma Mobile uses KWin's Wayland session and the Qt framework.[10] Distributions shipping Plasma Mobile can choose to support Android applications through Waydroid, which runs Android in a container on the device.[14]
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Plasma Mobile running on PinePhone
Plasma Mobile on the Nexus 5
Plasma Mobile on the Xiaomi POCO X3 NFC
Plasma Mobile running on the Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime
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