Interesting! Although it should be noted that’s from 2017.
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Recently I watched the YT’er TheHatedOne’s video in which he makes use of the “User Profiles” feature in Android and the GrapheneOS to compartmentalize his smartphone activities. Among the activities he sets a user profile are, business communication apps, anonymous browsing, and google play services usage.
Is this utilization of User Profiles feature in Android/GrapheneOS the closest one can get to the compartmentalization feature of QubesOS but in smartphones? Ideas?
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Yes, I agree with you 
On grapheneos user profiles can be used to compartimentalize, but the mais reason is to stop possibilities of IPC communication between apps. Default Android behaviour is apps can talk to each other if both apps consent.
As of now, the main handicaps for this kind of usage are lack of across profile notifications and the lack of “send to another user profile” function.
I find it quite usable though.
Bear in mind that app sandbox is much better in android than linux, though arguably inferior to xen (considering one app per appvm).
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This topic interests myself due to the critical thinking from my opinion. Qubes for smartphone might come into the future if I challenge myself to make a custom kernel based on Linux. However, this may take time.
Update: grapheneos has inter profile notifications for quite a while now. Works great.
would pay top money for a smart phone like that aha
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At least you can already install Qubes on a tablet (Librem 11).
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is there any video showcase of this?
The StarLite Mk V seems to meet minimum recommended Qubes spec. Intel N200 (supports VT-x with EPT, VT-d, Intel UHD Graphics), 16GB RAM, coreboot, TPM, detachable keyboard, starting at 512GB storage. All that needs work is product availability and some shrinking down! Super excited to see actual potential here!
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I want this
With optionally pre-installed Qubes-OS 4.2 ! See the bottom page of this StarLite Mk V spec…
Also included coreboot, EDK II but no GSM/5G.
If we’re going to switch architectures, I recommend RISC-V instead of ARM. I’d spend my life savings on a RISC PC that can run Qubes OS. Then again I am nervous I will melt in the face of such unmatched epicness.
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