India, Feb. 2 -- Most of the features of smartphones are aimed at a mass appeal. Linux terminal support is not one of them.Yet for a growing class of developers, students, and Android power users, it is one of the most meaningful capabilities Google has added to Android in years. A recent leak suggests Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra may finally join that club.

AVF may sound technical or difficult to understand, and that would be understandable. However, AVF is the area of Android required to support a full local Linux execution environment on an Android device. If the Galaxy S25 Ultra had supported AVF, it would have provided the capability to use the Linux terminal feature in Android, even with all of the flagship hardware that the Galaxy S...