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

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

Quoting: Divine D. open source smartphone inches closer to launch, gains microSD Express, micro HDMI, and LoRa support - Liliputing —

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 find on any other smartphone. While there’s still no word on a price or release date, the team did recently release a video that appears to show a Linux-based operating system booting on a prototype of the new board.

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  Being built as part of the Divine project, the Divine D. is a Linux smartphone running DawnOS. The operating system is built on Mobian and Debian, with Phosh serving as the desktop user interface.

  The hardware has a Rockchip RK3588S processor at its heart, with 4x Cortex-A76 cores running at 2.4 GHz and 4x Cortex-A55 cores running at 1.8 GHz. Graphics duties are handled by an Arm Mali-G610 GPU.

  The device features a three-core NPU that delivers 6 TFLOPS of processing power. This allows running language models locally without sending data to external servers. RAM goes up to 32 GB of LPDDR4x memory with storage options of 64 GB, 128 GB, or 256 GB via eMMC.