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Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by attah_ »

INTPenis wrote: post #48

Why not use the open source Android? I just feel like it would be more mature. And yes I like many others here have been trying Linux phones for 10+ years, since N900. Your phone just has to work, it can't crash because you get a call, or hide buttons because the UI is confused by orientation. IT MUST WORK. So that's why I wonder why people don't just use Android.

It's like using Chromium or whatever clone-a-chrome is hip at the moment. That does absolutely nothing to disrupt the status quo and is very much at the whim of the upstream "owner" whether you want to see it or not.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #53
freedomben wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'd pay up to 3k if it was quality delivered the experience of a top quality phone and a top quality laptop. I mean the technology to do this is already here. If apple or samsung wanted to do this... they can. Right now I use an iphone, but if samsung made a phone that felt like say linux, windows or macos when in laptop mode... I would switch off iphone in a heartbeat. And i mean it has to feel like macOS. None of t…

> And i mean it has to feel like macOS. None of that bloat is acceptable.

I suspect that every single thing you like about macOS is something I consider bloat (or would if that was the only related word I was allowed to use).

My first task on my recently acquired M3 MBP was to remove/hide/disable as much of macOS as I possibly could; only then can I use it as a productive development environment.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by onli »

rw_panic0_0 wrote: post #17

design is kinda ugly + 500 dollars is not cheap

I honestly think it looks fine. Nice texture at the back, pretty metal accents around the camera and at the side button, good logo. The uneven bezels (the one at the bottom is larger) are less nice, but that's just a reality of the budget this probably moves in, not even the Fairphone 5 did solve that yet.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by dmd »

whyowhy3484939 wrote: post #69
ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What 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…

> 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.)

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by jchw »

throawayonthe wrote: post #38
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 want to get one of these to play around with soon: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6T_(oneplus-fajit...

The SDM845 stuff looks quite promising for mainline but unfortunately the platform is definitely showing its age (and camera is still completely broken on every device as far as I know...)

Still, it's something!

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by stonogo »

anoncow wrote: post #23

Furi OS was what turned me away. Never heard of it and that makes me realise we don't have an android alternative OS which is permanent. Do we have any OS which is permanent? Shouldn't we have one?

PostmarketOS is trying to be this.

Re: Furilabs Linux Phone

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Post by fractallyte »

riversflow wrote: post #62
ninetyninenine wrote: post #43

What 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…

> 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…

Your phone is already a general purpose computer...
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