What is their GFX toolkit?
Because there debian, android? What is the bottom of it?
Furilabs Linux Phone
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Re: Furilabs Linux Phone
#192FWIW 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 wrote the Register article.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you referring to the one line comment you wrote, or do you write for The Register and that was your story submitted?
They seem to have written the original article going off the articles author name and the name in their bio.
That is correct. I have also stated in my bio that I work for the Reg.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Why does this question always come up? 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…
Then the question should be "which bank is backing this ROM", not "is app A for bank B work on this ROM".
The answer to the latter is and will continue to be an instant negative for quite a while, and it's pointless question to make other than as a really indirect nudging for big bank(lol).
Re: Furilabs Linux Phone
#195Can anyone estimate what it would cost to develop a new phone that's like the N900 with updated hardware (slide out keyboard, camera cover, maybe drop the input stylus, a bit flatter and larger) and mainline Linux support for all components? I'm sometimes wondering if this is something I could have Pine64 do if I accidentally get rich enough. I think I would spent the rest of my days just writing the software for thi…
Considering there's a bunch of stuff you'd have to manufacture from scratch I'm gonna say... 500 million USD? If you're okay with outsourcing a bunch of stuff to China and treading on gray areas where patents are concerned. Unfortunately it's gonna take a few more years before various mobile phone patents start expiring.
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#196> 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'd gladly take a phone that's twice as thick if it shaves a quarter off the width and a third off the height.
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#197I'm guessing one of the engineers was born on October 15, 1982?
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#198is 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/
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since you guys are running Gnome, you might be interested in helping with (or funding) this native GTK WhatsApp client: https://github.com/tobagin/whakarere/ Since these days something like >90% of people is on WhatsApp, it’s beyond quintessential to have a good WhatsApp client.
My biggest hold-up with that sort of work is that Facebook has previously threatened to ban users who use third-party clients, and then they have gone through with the threat. Is this no longer the case?
Has a well-behaved third party client ever been an issue?. A third party client that does things like retain deleted messages, report that read receipts are enabled but never actually sends them or other 'anti-social' behaviors is definitely asking to get banned.
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#200I'm currently using a Volla 22 with Ubuntu Touch and I'm happy with it. However if Furi is using Plasma Mobile (they're mum about what interface they're using, but if it's really a ' lightning fast user interface ' then I don't know what else it could be) then it's unfortunate that I discovered this too late to get it instead.
I think I've seen multiple references to Phosh.