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0 pointszozbot2343d ago0 comments

Those exist, they're just feature phones. Smartphones have to run general purpose apps and that takes RAM.

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That was my point, make it so that apps can run on that RAM budget. At least some apps.

The OpenMoko Freerunner only had 128MB RAM, it was able to run a Linux desktop of the time, Englightenment/E16. There were lots of apps for it too. IIRC the cut down QtMoko distro ran best though.

https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko

Before that Linux ran on the Zaurus too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus

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