Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shared as a demo of a minimal Inferno-based phone OS and an unusual dumb-phone approach.
What it is
A short demo of Inferno, the Plan 9 descendant operating system, running on an Android phone as Hellaphone. It shows calls, SMS and data working. The video quality is rough because the camera was held in front of the screen.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2011 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends 0xdeadbeefbabe · 2014-03 · on “Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'”
Don't give up on android yet, it's just a dumb linux and despite vendor plots you can make it into dumb android like this guy did: [this video] Cyanogen mod is going in the "smart" direction, but a mod could go in the other direction too. Slides for hellaphone here [LINK] Edit: Add slides link
Cites jff · 2011-09 · on “Inferno on Android”
Here's a short video I threw together demonstrating the phone. It's pretty spur of the moment, and the video quality is low, but you may be able to get an idea of how it works: [this video] Also check out [LINK] for screenshots.
Cites drybjed · 2021-05 · on “Will Linux phones stay around this time?”
There is/was a Hellaphone[1] project, based on Inferno, a Plan 9 successor. There are also some slides[2] and a video demonstration[3] available. [1]: [LINK] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [this video]
Cites marttt · 2022-01 · on “People deciding to ditch their smartphones”
I've intentionally never owned a smartphone. I used a Nokia 3310 for 12 years, starting in high school. When it finally broke (and I was a 30-ish young dad), there were always several "old phones" abandoned by family members or close relatives, so I've been using those to their end ever since. The current one is a Nokia 2600, which I genuinely dislike (tiny buttons, overengineered menu system), but the miserable thing stubbornly works, so what can I do? IIRC, the idea of constantly reading e-mail or browsing the web from some tiny phone screen made me really uneasy even as a young adult. I surely liked computers, but that, I felt, would be too much. Would I really need anything else except S