$499 is not cheap. At all.
Furilabs Linux Phone
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#162No word on HDMI out ?
That's the only thing stopping this from being a full computer.
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Then what makes you think the same people will let you insert a bomb-looking thing with wires sticking out into a credit card terminal?
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 bond for GBP1k with a bic pen on back of copier paper, they'll take it. Electronic platforms has nothing to do with that. That's why it's stupid to keep asking if banking apps would work.
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Holy moly, you must have very different life than most people I guess. I am from the younger generation which supposedly avoids making old-style phone calls as much as possible and I don't think I know anyone who has made less than 100 calls in the last decade.
I always wonder why your generation avoids such calls... Voice calls are so much more efficient to get the things you want from the person you call...
I think those very total attention expected during phone calls, and the speed at which it happens, contributes to a higher level of anxiety compared to texting. The younger generation hate these elevated stresses and prefer more async communication
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#165What 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…
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#166$499 is not cheap. At all.
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#167"I love the new furry phone"... Just like DuckDuckGo I think the name will hamper adoption of this.
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#168No word on HDMI out ? That's the only thing stopping this from being a full computer.
i assume it would do video over the usb-c port like the pinephone and librem.
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Wow. Whatsapp struggles on my iphone 13; how's performance on your Nokia?!
Works fine to receive text messages and a few pictures.
I beg to differ. Tried to use a kaios nokia 800 tough. Firefox/KaiOS using a stupid kind of webview for every UI, you get two consequences: first, everything is ugly: wrong padding everywhere, complex layout with non-integer number of list items fitting on screen (this is important, vertical list is the primary widget on small screen dumbphones). And second: everything is sluggish. My true "series 30" nokia launches app instantly, whereas i'm sure the SoC is order of magnitudes slower.
So the UX definitely shows complete absence of culture of design in this kind of space (eg gameboy UI design, classic dumbphone UI, ...). Small screens need very simple widgets (most importantly grid and vertical list), hand made paddings and proper space optimizations, most likely some bitmap font tailored to the resolution.. You can't just slap some dynamic layout and expect it to work nicely on such a small screen. Everything vectorized will be both costly and of dubious rendering quality, etc..
And of course these things only have "decent", but definitely not "1 month scale" battery life. I guess LTE is the real culprit here.
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#170This website is just infuriating[0] to use with the randomly disappearing elements (FF 131 on Fedora 39, even with disabled uBlock). $500 sounds kind of funny when PinePhonePro is $400, but of course on the other hand Librem5 is $1000+, so whatever. Still, (2-gen-old) iPhone price-range.
Couldn't find too many datasheets nor other documentation unfortunately, though it might because of the unusable piece of crap website, which made me rage-close it.
[0]: just noticed: inFURIating, as in Furi labs, haha