"Nex comes first, if only by age. It's launching the NexPhone. This is a decently specced Android phone, but with one unusual feature and one that we've not heard about before. The first is that, along with a clean copy of Android 16 with its own desktop mode, it will also include a bundled Debian Linux VM for running hardware-accelerated desktop Linux apps."
"The company behind the device, Nex, has been around for a decade: The Register covered the launch of the NexDock 2 in 2019 and a year later got its talons on one. A later version, the NexDock 360, is sold alongside Puri.sm's Librem 5 Linux phone. Founder and CEO Emre Kosmaz has a blog post explaining the history and inspiration behind the device."
Two new device lines expand OS options on mobile hardware. Nex is launching the NexPhone with Android 16 plus a bundled Debian Linux VM that supports hardware-accelerated desktop Linux apps. The NexPhone can dual-boot Windows 11 for Arm64 so it can reboot into a pocketable desktop when connected to a USB-C hub, screen, keyboard, and mouse. Nex plans to ship in Q3 2026 with a $199 reservation downpayment and a $350 balance at shipping. Brax Technologies followed a successful Brax3 de-Googled Android phone and is developing an unusually expandable tablet called open_slate that will offer Google-free OS choices.
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