Furiphone flx1 looks promising
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lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI was given an old Chromebook tablet by a friend that wanted to get rid of it, and it just happened to have mainline Linux support. I was able to get postmarketOS running on it, and got gnome shell mobile as the DE. It works, and works well. The apps that support the touch interface and are made to be responsive, etc work really well, and the waydroid integegration works fantastically well. I was able to get android version of jellyfin working, with vlc, and a few other apps I use daily. All this in 4GB of ram, I’m really impressed!
Its time for a Linux phone, I put in an order for the 2nd batch of this phone, hopefully they start shipping soon!
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Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have been promising a good Linux phone for forever. Is this one any good? Will support last?
lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No idea as i haven’t gotten mine yet. They’re still filling the next pre-order batch of production, but from the reviews on their website, it seems as responsive as you’d expect from android, which was a huge problem with Dev phones like the pinephone, they were way too sluggish with terrible battery life.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What’s that link got to do with PostmarketOS? It does not look like FuriOS is a version of it?
lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good catch, while I guess they’re not using postmarketOS, that’s what was supopeted on the debice i had, and what enabled me to test out the mobile version to gnome shell, and try out the phone app ecosystem. It seems like its ready for prime time, especially since waydroid performs so well, android apps can fill the void for any missing native Linux apps.