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Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by anonzzzies »

dmd wrote: post #96
whyowhy3484939 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 ca…

> that can actually, imagine this, make and, to complicate matters even further, even take calls Showing how different different people are. I've probably made... 20? ish? phone calls in the last decade. (I'm 46.)

Same for me, I am 50 and would happily carry a phone sized tablet without call caps at all. I never need to call or receive call; send me an email or hit me up on a chat channel.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by anonzzzies »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #110
riversflow wrote: post #62

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> 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, th…

I should never say "everyone" anymore. Because everyone is almost never true. I mean overwhelming majority.

I think adults should read 'majority' when someone says everyone. I will keep saying it when talking with adults as it is just easier than put all the exceptions; if some people get annoyed by it, that's not really my problem.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by anonzzzies »

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 rather have nice specs and battery life than thin.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by anonzzzies »

fsflover wrote: post #98
g-b-r wrote: post #93

Chinese, unfortunately

There is AFAIK only one non-Chinese Linux phone, and it's Liberty Phone.

... which is $2k... We already know that almost everyone likes the idea of not being Chinese stuff, but no one is willing to pay 4x premium. The Liberty specs are dismal for a 2k phone; as I said (I think response to you as well); I would pay basically anything for descent modern specs (so s24 or so) but running linux, but not 2k for something that will just annoy me in not being practical besides for a bit of lisp (nothing wrong with that though!!!).

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by gitaarik »

sandreas wrote: post #10

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…

Not Android, but it's an open-source music player:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by toast0 »

numpad0 wrote: post #57
freedomben wrote: post #51

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I agree I would love this option, but how much would you be willing to pay for such a device? Would you pay $800? $1,000? $1,400? That's where I have a hard time. I would pay that kind of money, but I would need something well polished and fully capable of being a "daily driver." I think many people are in the same place I am, and thus we have a real chicken and egg problem here.

Microsoft at one point was running full NT on ARM on phones. I think they could've done it within such price range, but didn't.

Didn't they? The Lumia 950 launched at about $500ish and supported Continuum.

Continuum wasn't exactly full convergence, but it was kind of close. As I recall, they had a desktop dock and a laptop like dock, that you could pair your phone to (wireless or wired).

Microsoft was big on their 'universal windows app' concept at the time, where universal meant actually only ran on a small fraction of windows devices. sigh

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by tmikaeld »

GranPC wrote: post #27
jchw wrote: post #13

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 a…

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…

My gripe with any of the open source phones is that id apps such as bankid don’t work without the secure token storage of Android. Is this Solvable?

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by feetsoup »

anonzzzies wrote: post #142
ninetyninenine wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I should never say "everyone" anymore. Because everyone is almost never true. I mean overwhelming majority.

I think adults should read 'majority' when someone says everyone. I will keep saying it when talking with adults as it is just easier than put all the exceptions; if some people get annoyed by it, that's not really my problem.

Alternatively you could use 'most people', or any one of several equivalent expressions, and preserve the meaning of everyone as every one. There is an aroma of manipulation around using language that gives the impression of absolute consensus even if all parties involved understand its vernacular meaning. It's embellishment in service of influencing people and rightly denounced in any context where accurate communication is important.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by numerosix »

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…

n900 was perfectly reliable, yours had a problem. And Maemo was a wonderful interface for mobile stuff. Clean, functional, tweakable. Regret it every day, facing shitty Android. I dream for a LTE n900 with a larger screen, leaving the rest unchanged : unbreakable resistive screen, mecanical keyboard, fantastic stereo speakers, etc.
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