A smartphone on Linux. Founded by Tunisian engineers, dawndrums is a young company working on open mobile systems. Their Divine D....

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Divine D. open source smartphone inches closer to launch, gains microSD Express, micro HDMI, and LoRa support

Earlier this year a Tunisian group called DawnDrums SARL revealed their initial plans to build a Linux-friendly smartphone called the Divine D. with a 5.5 inch AMOLED display, a Rockchip RK3588S processor, and an open source design.

Now the team says it’s updated the mainboard with a Rev 1.1 design that brings a number of significant changes, including a bunch of features you’re unlikely to […]

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Read more: https://liliputing.com/divine-d-open-source-smartphone-inches-closer-to-launch-gains-microsd-express-micro-hdmi-and-lora-support/

Interesting looks like the new revision of @dawndrums #DivineD #mobilelinux phone will include lora onboard so it will be one of the few, only?, mobile phones with integrated lora. I know #pine64 made a backcover but that is kapoot. Hopefully it works well enough to run #meshtastic / #meshcore right on a phone and not have to worry about carrying another device.

https://docs.dawndrums.tn/blog/dd-rev1.1-arch#3-lora-subsystem

We have finalized the schematics for Divine D. Rev. 1.1 and are now moving to the layout phase. The hardware architecture includes new subsystems such as microSD Express, micro HDMI, LoRa, and an under-voltage battery monitor.

Additionally, a Pogo interface allows for accessory connections, exposing USB 2.0, SPI, JTAG SWD, I2C, terminal UART, GPIOs, and a bi-directional power path. For more details, check our blog: https://docs.dawndrums.tn/blog/dd-rev1.1-arch/

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Watch Divine D. making a test call on Phosh. This was only to try the call application, power consumption and connectivity. There are many other scenarios for such a test, such as during low-power modes, running performance applications, audio quality, audio routing, bluetooth HFP mode.. We will be covering those as the hardware revisions and software improve.

https://youtube.com/shorts/iT9Pq75SxFU?si=XVX86ioH9gYVYpfT

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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Hard-Freeze

Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Installer-Trixie-RC1

APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3.1-Released

KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-TOD-Wallpapers

NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-and-6-14-kernels-gnome-48-and-more

Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Chrony

GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-dropping-x11-support-ubuntu-impact

Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/tails-6-15-1-emergency-update-fixes-critical-tor-browser-vulnerabilities/

Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/wine-10-8-released-boosted-performance-tiff-support-pdb-backend-progress/

New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
https://liliputing.com/divine-d-project-is-developing-a-linux-phone-with-a-rk3588s-processor/
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)

Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/

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@dawndrums I was looking at the Divine D. Hannibal revision bring-up page, you are doing an impressive work there!

I see you have chosen eMMC for internal storage, have you considered using some faster memory type like SD Express or BGA NVMe? They both use PCIe links to achieve higher bandwidth.

#divineD

https://docs.dawndrums.tn/docs/Divine/D/PCB/Hannibal