The first Snapdragon phone with Android Linux Terminal support is here

The Redmagic 12 Pro is the first Snapdragon-based Android phone to support the Linux Terminal introduced in Android 16 for Pixel phones. Android power users who want a new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6-powered phone like the Redmagic 12 Pro now have another reason to be excited about the latest Qualcomm processors: the Android Linux Terminal. Thanks to tipster Dylan H, who wrote in asking about compatibility. After enabling the Android Linux Terminal and running a few commands to check compatibility, I found out that the Redmagic 12 Pro does, indeed, support the Linux Terminal app. I’ve written Qualcomm asking about wider Snapdragon support for Linux Terminal and will update this article if I receive a response. Google introduced the Terminal app as a power user feature in the Android 16 update for Pixel phones, and Samsung added support in One UI 8.5 for Exynos-powered Galaxy S26 models. So far, however, Snapdragon phones have not appeared on the compatibility list. Linux Terminal support has been slowly building on Google platforms. Googlebooks sort of support it, and now it appears that more Android phones will support it as well. The implementation on the Redmagic 12 Pro seems slightly different from what’s on Exynos-powered Samsung phones, as you cannot adjust the disk size (it’s locked at 132GB available), but you can adjust the amount of memory available for the terminal to use. By default, Terminal has access to 1GB of memory, although the Redmagic 12 Pro lets you increase that to 10.6GB. You can also adjust the display resolution and enable Keep Awake in advanced settings. The Redmagic 12 Pro also supports the GUI feature, so programs like GIMP should work if you can get them installed (I kept running into 404 errors using the standard installation command). The Redmagic 12 Pro goes up for preorder on November 12 and includes several freebies and a launch discount before November 17. See our full review to find out if it’s right for you. More on Redmagic: Android 17-based Redmagic OS 12 gets closer to a global release I’ve been using Android’s iPad Mini OLED for months, and it’s the better tiny tablet Follow Nick: YouTube, X (Twitter), Threads, Instagram FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.