= Debian Mobile session at DebConf18

== Presenter: W. Martin Borgert (debacle)

Review last year topics
- Hardware availability suitable for running Debian
- Supported devices in mainline Linux
- Debian GNU/Android compatibility

Q: Any lessons learnt from OpenMoko?
debacle: Not discussed last year, hurted feelings.
zumbi: Also Canonical phone was discontinued. We should have a retrospective on
       it.

Q: Any news about Neo900?
pabs: talked to them, dev was not having his best time

== Librem 5 Status update (zlatan)
(zlatan not part of mobile team)
Using PureOS, mainline Linux kernel, disk encryption by default.

Current status: Runs Debian Testing by default, has tested image builds with
PureOS.  Need to move packages built by the team to PureOS.

Build system: Laniakea written by Matthias Klumpp

Input methods in wayland support has been written and partially upstreamed.
virtual-keyboard accepted in wlroots. OSK packaged and is included in dev board
images.
virtboard: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/virtboard

Phone shell (phosh) replaces weston: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh

Adaptive UI (libhandy): https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy
porting the library to GTK+4

Support for cross building ARM flatpaks in GNOME builder.

Disk encryption support, not much progress, mostly around smart key

Mainline kernel support
- Using u-boot as bootloader
- Pengutronix doing good mainline work upstreaming support
#TODO: graphics, VPU, USB2&3 support, touchscreen, modem, audio codecs, better power management, BLUETOOTH
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-emcraft

Gnome Web
Adaptive UI changes have been merged upstream to improve the usability on small screens.

GNOME Contacts 
#TODO: Geary mail app

Terminal
port from GNOME terminal and made for mobile-friendly

SMS
A POC features a libpurple backend to enable other protocols as well as SMS/text.
Using Modem Manager to send/receive SMS messages.

Camera
No progress

[Librem 5 status update slides](link to zlatan slide deck)

Email list 
- librem-5-announce@list.puri.sm
- librem-5-dev@list.puri.sm
- librem-5-users@list.puri.sm
- all@list.puri.sm

Matrix:
- #community-librem-5:talk.puri.sm

== Other hardware

Gemini PDA https://www.planetcom.co.uk/

Pyra: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/ 

ZeroPhone: https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone/log/51839-project-description-and-frequently-asked-questions 

iOS: Cydia also uses dpkg and apt stuffs.  Not sure if we Debian should officially have progress there.

== Debian pending tasks

- usertag for BTS