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Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by GranPC »

mmh0000 wrote: post #40

I want to like it... But, I've been bitten too many times by expensive Linux phones (Oh Nokia N900, how I wanted to love you. but you couldn't even make phone calls without threatening to crash). It's a little weird that there are very few details on this thing. Notably, one of my #1 concerns when looking for a new phone today is a good camera. And all I can find on the camera is "it's 50MP!!! " But how do actual, no…

I agree with you on some points - I do know a lot of people (myself included) have been bitten in the past many years by Linux phones that didn't do what they really claimed they'd eventually do. There's not much I can do there other than continue to work on it and make it the best possible Linux phone. It will speak for itself.

I also completely agree that we should have a camera showcase. We've been talking about the idea of letting customers upload their shots to some sort of gallery so people can see how the real world looks through the camera's lens. What I can tell you though is that pictures look pretty darn good, and low light is great owing to the f/1.57 aperture. No optical zoom for this model unfortunately.

I'm not sure the website being slow speaks to our capability of maintaining a distro, especially when you consider these two things are done by different people. Sure, I'd love to work on the website and make it faster. But I'm busy working on the actual phone.

The video situation will improve as reviews come in. As for just giving you an unlocked bootloader and regular Linux... sure, I can do that. But you're not going to have audio, hardware acceleration, camera, etc. postmarketOS is a good example of this - despite years of tireless work, it's just really hard to get a regular distro working on a phone without leveraging Android drivers, at least for now.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by riversflow »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well. One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this. We have the technology we have the demand, it's just companies who make the high quality phones want to completely lock down the market. You would think the free market would…

> One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this

This is insane to me. Like not just no. Hell no. I want my phone to be a gadget, like a watch, not a whole ass computer. I want my tablet to be its own thing from my laptop, which is different from my PC(s). I absolutely, positively do NOT want general purpose computing to be the typical paradigm. I don’t want, need, or even like the idea of my phone, that I typically use like a wallet, to be a general purpose computation tool. Lock that shit down, please!

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

rendaw wrote: post #29
GranPC wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 is…

I don't care about running stuff out of the box, but NixOs support would be awesome!

Does anyone have NixOS+Halium working?

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

pmontra wrote: post #8

> Phone: 171mm x 82mm x 12mm : 280g 280 grams is a lot even for today's phones. 12 mm is half a inch. Very thick. The other dimensions are 6.7 x 3.2 inches. Ok, this might be a phone for people that want to prove a point but it's too cumbersome. How about starting with something reasonable and fit it with only what fits within those bounds? An example: 160 x 80 x 9 and 200 g. That would be a big phone but not bigger…

> Ok, this might be a phone for people that want to prove a point but it's too cumbersome. How about starting with something reasonable and fit it with only what fits within those bounds? An example: 160 x 80 x 9 and 200 g. That would be a big phone but not bigger than many phones on sale.

Because in that universe your comment would be about how awful the specs were and how tiny the battery is. I'm reasonably confident that price-size-performance is a "pick at most 2" situation.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by bsimpson »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well. One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this. We have the technology we have the demand, it's just companies who make the high quality phones want to completely lock down the market. You would think the free market would…

I remember Motorola showing off a concept like this in ~2012.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by auguzanellato »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well. One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this. We have the technology we have the demand, it's just companies who make the high quality phones want to completely lock down the market. You would think the free market would…

Asus did that in 2011 with the PadFone, it was an Android mobile phone that you could plug into the provided tabled and then plug a keyboard into that.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by whyowhy3484939 »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What I want is quality to the level of flagship android phones or the iphone with the ability to plug it in to a keyboard, mouse and screen and have it function as my laptop as well. One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this. We have the technology we have the demand, it's just companies who make the high quality phones want to completely lock down the market. You would think the free market would…

> I think everyone wants this.

You asked for it. I don't want that. I don't want an "integrated experience" and "flagship quality". The first sounds juvenile and the second sounds unnecessarily expensive and probably containing shit I don't need, like fancy cameras to look good on my nonexistent socials.

What I want is a simple, slow, old, efficient, simple phone with the interface of an 80s era 8bit computer that can actually, imagine this, make and, to complicate matters even further, even take calls.

I basically want an open source dumb phone. Do these exist? If not, why not focus on this first? Why go for fancy cameras and apps when we can't even make calls? Looking at your PinePhone.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by prophesi »

krunck wrote: post #58
rendaw wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could say it's pronounced "Wendigo" and people would still read it "Furry".

If people read "fury" as "furry" then that's a literacy problem.

As someone who reads/watches a lot of Japanese media, "fury" isn't how I would first read "furi".

I do like "FuriOS" and think it avoids this issue, but other portmanteaus might be better avoided.

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