Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
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Re: Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
#2Seems pretty cool. This SOC is bound to have pretty good upstream linux support to, since the Snapdragon 660 is in very good shape.
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#3I tell you: this is the year of Linux on Smartphones.
jk
Re: Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
#4AFAIK it has proprietary drivers probably preventing future updates (like for other Android phones). I prefer Purism Librem 5 instead, which gives true freedom.
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#5"LINEAGEOS, UBUNTU TOUCH or ANDROID" is a euphemism for "we did not do the important, hard work of upstreaming drivers".
This phone might be perfectly nice, but it's a "Linux phone" in a marketing sense only; nobody has properly ported Linux to it, and you'll be stuck with an ancient kernel full of proprietary userspace blobs.
I'd love to hear otherwise, but I've seen this pattern repeat a number of times (the Gemini PDA and successors, various "secure" phones, essentially all the Ubuntu Touch devices https://phone.docs.ubuntu.com/en/devices/devices, etc.) and those who do put in the critical driver work are in-touch enough to know it's worth being explicit about upfront.
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#6I would like to see the keyboard layout but I can't find any photo.
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#8The promo for Pro1X makes privacy claims but doesn't Ubuntu collect telemetry data from their OSes?
As to the phone, at first I thought the mechanical keyboard is useless, however I can think of situations where on-screen keyboard would cover too much of screen real-estate. External keyboard lets you see more, unobstructed.
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#9What is the advantage of the slideout keyboard? It might save some pixels while you type, but it looks very uncomfortable.
Re: Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
#10What is the advantage of the slideout keyboard? It might save some pixels while you type, but it looks very uncomfortable.
Being able to touch-type is the reason I want one. You just can't do that with a touchscreen keyboard.