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Furilabs Linux Phone

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223 points nikodunk | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jchw ◴[14 Oct 24 17:36 UTC] No.41839797[source]▶
Apparently it is based on Halium, so it's probably not going to run mainline Linux any time soon. On the other hand, I'm less happy with Android than I pretty much ever have been, so having some more options outside of relatively unusable Linux phones and being stuck with modified Android firmware certainly does not hurt.

I am definitely interested, especially if the team working on it is as active as it seems they are. Definitely one of the biggest bummers with PinePhone and PinePhone Pro was realizing that the community was largely on its own; that could work well, but in practice progress has been slow and painful and I stopped paying attention.

I would really like to see more projects doing cellular Linux devices in general. It doesn't need to be a candybar smartphone, if someone can jam a cellular modem into a MicroPC I'm sold at any price I can afford.

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GranPC ◴[14 Oct 24 17:49 UTC] No.41839941[source]▶
I work on this device. We are currently QAing the latest update with our community, which contains a lot of goodies and improvements shaped directly from community feedback. You can see previous changelogs at https://furilabs.com/changelog

I am obviously a little biased, but this is probably the first Linux phone that people can actually use. Someone in our community switched from iPhone to this without much of an issue.

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mariusor ◴[15 Oct 24 11:31 UTC] No.41847412[source]▶
The Sailfish OS phones are in some use, and they've been running full blown linux since 2013.
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m4rtink ◴[15 Oct 24 18:51 UTC] No.41851850[source]▶
Using a Sailfish OS phone since 2013 - just saying. ;-)
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1. usr1106 ◴[16 Oct 24 07:36 UTC] No.41856535[source]▶
Right, used 2 of them as my primary phone between 2015 and 2024 when the hardware broke not many weeks ago. Just recently ordered their new one, which is a bit cheaper than this Furi. Admittedly a risk purchase because not much is known about it yet.

Also typing this on the ultra-cheap hardware made for the Indian market nearly a decade ago. Well, admittedly they have already announced to discontinue support and I never dared to carry it as my primary phone.

Now the last weeks I was forced to use Android as my primary phone. Really a suprise what crappy piecemeal Android is compared to SailfishOS made by a tiny company struggling economically forever.