Ubuntu on a flipphone?

[lorcastrand]

I have an old flipphone lying around, Its a ZTE z221. Could I possibly install Ubuntu on this? Would it work? I know Android flipphones have been made. Why not Ubuntu?

[Kirboosy]

Welcome to the forums!

No, the phone is not nearly powerful enough for it. Perhaps a custom Linux From Scratch install *might* work but that would take a lot of time and effort. For what the phone is I would just let it be a reminder of how our phone technology has progressed over the years.

Hope that helps!
~Caboose

[lorcastrand]

Thanks for the help!

[lorcastrand]

The phone I use is actually an old (ancient) Moto w376g I found and rigged, hacked, and tinkered with until it had the basic functions of a smartphone. Would that support any type of Ubuntu/Linux distro?

[3rdalbum]

The phone I use is actually an old (ancient) Moto w376g I found and rigged, hacked, and tinkered with until it had the basic functions of a smartphone. Would that support any type of Ubuntu/Linux distro?

Caboose's reply still applies to your Moto w376g phone.

To give you some perspective, I bought a top-of-the-range Android phone in 2010. Somebody ported Ubuntu Touch to it last year and it runs dreadfully. Much worse than the preinstalled Android. It's only good for a demonstration of "look what I can do!". It probably doesn't even work with the later versions of Ubuntu Touch.

You need a lot of grunt and a big touchscreen to run Ubuntu Touch. You couldn't run it on a $79 smartphone from today, much less a basic feature-phone from 2008. Sorry.

[Thomas_Robert]

I think no.. you can not use it on this phone.