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My next phone is going to be... a Fuchsia?

My current phone is crap. I lost my half decent Galaxy Ace a year ago, in the middle of a long line of unfortunate events. Was a bad year, and I lost many things. I had to buy a DDC E4s, a friend brought it from USA and I paid like $70 USD for it. I liked the design, and the terminal has proven to be solid, with a few quirks. The accessories are total crap,  the earbuds stopped working after using them twice, and the USB cable also stopped chargin after some months. Have you ever seen that? It is a fucking USB cable, they last forever, what can go wrong? And the camera... better not to talk about the image quality.

So, I guess that at some point, I'll have to upgrade to a better phone, when I find the cash. And considering that getting the funds will take some time, and  Google is already working in its next generation mobile OS, maybe my next device won't be Android, but Fuchsia?

The new Google Fuchsia does not uses Linux as kernel, but a new one based on Little Kernel (LK) and named Magenta. It is a realtime OS, and the development environment, Flutter, can also build apps for Android and iOS. And here is the best thing: Fuchsia gets rid of Java, in favour of other languages like C, C++, Rust, Dart and Go. Notice the lack of C#? Can't confirm anything about it, but perhaps Google decided not to take the risk. Neither I would, if I were in the same situation.

Anyway, I'm eager to see Fuchsia in action!

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