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Furilabs Linux Phone

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jchw ◴[] 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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1. usr1106 ◴[] No.41856626[source]
Halium is based on libhybris, to my understanding that was developed when Nokia stopped making Linux phones and some of their developers started making their own under the name Jolla/SaifishOS in 2011.

While Nokia could maintain their own Linux kernel that's impossible for a small vendor/team. There is no realistic alternative to taking the Android kernel provided by the SoC vendor.