Qwen 3.5 running on a $300 Android phone – on-device, open source
Qwen 3.5 Small dropped two days ago. I had it running on a mid-tier Android phone within hours. It's great seeing the on-device AI community light up around this release. Off Grid brings it to Android: phones with 6GB RAM in the $200-300 range, ~8 tok/sec on the 2B model. Fully offline. Text generation, vision AI, image gen, voice transcription, tool calling, document analysis — all on-device, nothing uploaded, ever. Works in airplane mode. 780+ GitHub stars. ~2,000 downloads across Android and iOS. Early days. GitHub:…
Qwen 3.5 running on a $300 Android phone – on-device, open source launched on March 3, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, see, speak, and generate images on your phone or Mac — GGUF LLMs, vision, Whisper speech-to-text, Stable Diffusion, tool calling, and local-network servers. Runs on your CPU, GPU, or NPU. No account, no API key, zero data leaves your device. - off-grid-ai/OGAM
In the maker’s words, at launch
Qwen 3.5 Small dropped two days ago. I had it running on a mid-tier Android phone within hours. It's great seeing the on-device AI community light up around this release. Off Grid brings it to Android: phones with 6GB RAM in the $200-300 range, ~8 tok/sec on the 2B model. Fully offline. Text generation, vision…
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