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Hasty guess: fast is responsiveness, performant is performance per watt?
fast is latency, performant is bandwidth
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…
FWIW I wrote about this a few months ago, after trying the actual device at devconf.cz in July. It's on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40805156
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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…
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?
In the end it also boils down to what devices the BankID app providers are willing to support, I have a hard time seeing anything but iOS or Android devices being supported in the near future, Esp as Swedish BankID's now also requires NFC support to read the local police issued ID cards (had to get a new testing-device just due to this requirement).
Note: BankID is the name of personal identity apps that support authentication and signatures in Sweden, Norway and Finland, the authentication is used to access a myriad of both public and private sites like tax office, unemployment, healthcare and gyms. The signatures done via the apps are generally accepted to be of as good legal standing as a signed paper.
Let's not forget to also get it all audited, too.
Very tempting. What is the deal with play store integrity, i.e. is wallet (and some banking apps) supported?
Why does this question always come up? There's zero technical reasons you can't electronically pay with all-open software stack e.g. Ethereum on GNU/Linux, it's pure matter of trust. With currently available payment standards, it's like asking for a live credit card with someone else's private key and an open debug port, all at the same time. Things don't work that way.
Because that's the only question that matters. I have just a few apps installed, some of them are easily replaced, like TOTP apps, others are impossible to replace and without them I might as well get a feature phone.
I'm down to one app that I really do need, MobilePay, but it's a payment app, heavily controlled by the banks. That is not going to be installable on CalyxOS or anything without either Apples AppStore or the Google Play Store.
Phones doesn't matter, they are mostly the same, the operating systems are interesting, but without a widely supported app store, it does not matter, the phone will be useless for the majority of people. More and more people are using their phone as their only computing device, they need to have access to banking apps, mobile payment solution and government application, none of those are not going to exist on some random Linux phone.
FWIW I wrote about this a few months ago, after trying the actual device at devconf.cz in July. It's on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40805156
Are you referring to the one line comment you wrote, or do you write for The Register and that was your story submitted?
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 t…
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 surprisingly permanent.