If you want deskktop version of Firefox or Chromium on your phone, you can get them using Termux. But yeah they will be slow.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Hopefully this means I can have a GraphineOS laptop (whenever google makes a new Pixel Laptop)
This paired with virtualization features (hopefully with working sommelier) potentially enable running desktop wayland apps on phone.
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this starts a trend of ultra-cheap "laptops" that are just hardware extensions for phones with no processing capabilities of their own.
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Sweet that it's all of android now. I've had it on my note 20 ultra for the past 5 years.
My old note9 did it too. Handy in a pinch and great when I forget my laptop but still wanted to pretend to work at work
And they chose to highlight as a feature making it like a pC, “you also get Windows PC–like abilities such as snapping windows to the left and right of the screen.”
Reminds me of just a few months ago when they sold the Samsung Galaxy S20-something using all the features that come with either Google Gemini 1.5-2.0 or Android 15. All features that my phone has. Nothing unique but the homegrown app store nobody likes