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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about the NexPhone highlight its ability to run Debian Linux as a containerized desktop alongside Android and Windows 11 on ARM. The device is a rugged midrange smartphone that can boot into Debian Linux for a full desktop experience when docked, appealing to enthusiasts interested in multi-OS pocket PCs. Topics cover the engineering challenges, specs, and pre-order details of this phone-as-PC concept, which revives ideas from Microsoft's Continuum and Samsung DeX. Debian Linux is presented as a key feature for users wanting a Linux desktop on a mobile device.
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    NexPhone: Can a phone run Windows 11 on ARM and work as a pocket PC?

    Almost a decade after Microsoft walked away from its own smartphone experiment, a small Hong Kong company is trying to answer a question enthusiasts keep asking: can a phone actually be a practical Windows PC in your pocket? Nex Computer’s NexPhone tries to answer that by shipping a single...
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    NexPhone: Rugged Android Linux Debian and Windows on Arm in One Pocket Device

    NexPhone arrives as a provocative re-opening of the long-running “phone-as-PC” idea: a rugged midrange handset that ships as an Android device, can run a full Debian Linux desktop on demand, and — unusually — offers a separately bootable Windows 11 on Arm image so the same pocket computer can...
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    NexPhone: The Pocket Phone That Becomes a Full Windows 11 PC

    Nex Computer’s NexPhone promises to be the kind of gadget that makes tech enthusiasts grin: a midrange smartphone that’s explicitly engineered to become a full PC — running Android and Linux with desktop modes and, most unusually, able to boot into Windows 11 so it can act as a proper Windows PC...
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