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Furi Phone FLX1: Debian smartphone debuts • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

At any good conference, the "corridor track" is always a highlight and one of the experiences that virtual events so far haven't managed to reproduce.

At this year's DevConf.cz, the undoubted highlight of the corridor track for The Reg FOSS desk was meeting the Furi Labs team on its conference stand for its new Debian-based handset.

Mainstream phones are of course much more capable, faster, and far cheaper, but there are penalties in terms of privacy, control, ownership of your data, and so on.

It's not the only such effort, and Furi Labs started out as an offshoot of the Droidian project to create a version of Debian for mobiles.

The Hong Kong-based company is working with a Chinese OEM to make sure that there are native Linux drivers for all the device's hardware.

CEO Bardia Moshiri proudly told us that the FLX1 we tried has Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, all cameras, GPS and so on, all working.

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