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Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by porphyra »

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…

It takes lots of engineering effort to make things svelte. That makes it incredibly hard for "indie" phone makers to come up with something competitive in this regard. Likewise with price --- Android phones with similar specs can be found for only $200.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by jchw »

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.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by bean-weevil »

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…

I agree that it's definitely too tall but I don't agree that it's too thick. It has a removable battery which fully justifies the thickness imo.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by SoftTalker »

bean-weevil wrote: post #15
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…

I agree that it's definitely too tall but I don't agree that it's too thick. It has a removable battery which fully justifies the thickness imo.

I don't think 12mm is bad. My iPhone in its Otterbox sleeve is just over 11mm thick.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by caiusdurling »

Took me ages to connect the fact the phone was flipping around at hyper-speed on the webpage because I had the cursor over it whilst scrolling down. Had to move to the right side of the page to then scroll down.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by wmf »

porphyra wrote: post #11
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…

It takes lots of engineering effort to make things svelte. That makes it incredibly hard for "indie" phone makers to come up with something competitive in this regard. Likewise with price --- Android phones with similar specs can be found for only $200.

Why bother when you could pay HMD (aka "Nokia"), Foxconn, ASUS, etc to make a dramatically better phone with your logo and your OS on it?
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