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How's the performance compared to a Linux vm running on a pixel 9 with kvm?
Android 15 recently released, which brought support for graphical acceleration inside the vm, so that's one competitor for the Linux phone.
is this actually their own HW design, or is it just some random alibaba HW with their software on it? edit: looks like same HW as "Gigaset GX6" https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/gigaset-gx6/
seems pretty favorable, keep in mind that it's already two years old. it's also a brick at 280g, almost double a pixel 5, otherwise pretty similar
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Who said anything about sticking anything into credit card terminals? And I'm not seeing any wires sticking out of the phone. I'd say it doesn't particularly look like a bomb either, but given recent events, that probably doesn't say much.
You'll be asking the same thing by trying to pay through a totally custom phone. As I'm repeating here, the blocker is lack of trust from banks, not technical reasons. THEY have to trust YOU, and then banking apps will work. Otherwise any tricks to get past security check to manipulate your bank accounts will be just short-lived hacks. If the King of England walked into the Bank of England and wrote a hand-written bo…
what has gone wrong in your brain that you think that?
$500 price point is a lot for an open source enthusiast phone, especially one unknown. The Pine64 PinePhone is $150-$200, with similar hardware provenance, but various open source projects that might at least give better software longevity and software trustworthiness. https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/ An additional consideration: as much as we like and respect our global colleagues, unfortunately I coul…
$500 and (hopefully) works is a lot better than $800+ and works or $200 and doesn’t work worth a shit.
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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…
The Sailfish OS phones are in some use, and they've been running full blown linux since 2013.
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There's NFC, although the Linux stack support for NFC is a little limiting. However the NFC hardware is passed through to the Android container, so if, for example, your bank doesn't demand that you pass SafetyNet, you can pay with the phone. (I have done this)
I've used nfc on linux with several readers via pcsc-lite and it seemed to work fine. Do you mean support for the nfc chipsets used on phones? Does the android container deal with that differently somehow?
I'm so desperately looking for a DIY portable device that does not suck to build my portable audio player, best case supporting android with any of the following custom roms: LineageOS CalyxOS GrapheneOS /e/OS I even considered making a player myself using the T113-S3 SoC, unfortunately not having the required skills. There are so many people trying to build prototypes, but this seems to be a space that is not easy t…
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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…
Nokia N900 and N9 ran on Linux in 2009 and 2011. N900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 N9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9
the linkedin profile linked to in footer doesn't exist. #redflag
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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 t…
>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. Does this mean you are not working on mainlining this device? I'll take the slow and steady pmOS approach over sketchy Android shims. That's what ruined the Planet Computers Gemini PDA for me. A temporary solution is often surp…