Google is looking to offer a native Terminal app for Android, possibly with Android 16. The Terminal app will allow installation of a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration along with other sysadmin features including disk resizing, port forwarding, and partition recovery. This is an extension of Google's earlier project of allowing Chrome OS to run on Android using the Android Virtualization Framework.
And no manufacturer or carrier will enable them.
Google Pixels will have them and what does that have to do with carriers?
Do you not understand how the software on your phone gets there? The manufacturer makes a release and the carriers have it modified to their own spec, often disabling or removing things.
Yeah, and that’s why it’s a stupid idea to get your phone through a carrier instead of unlocked from the manufacturer.
Mine is factory unlocked, not a carrier specific model, yet I still don’t have access to the FM tuner inside. It’s better but still fucked with.
There are plenty of carriers which don’t do that, even in the US, assuming you are willing to part with a big name carrier.
I’ve never seen a phone from my carrier having more or less software than the store bought. When i put my sim in it downloads a app, but besides that i just have a normal phone.