It is with great excitement that we can now release the FLX1s. Pre-sales are open and the phone is in production which is due to...

Mobile phone Debian based

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    NOT ON THAT PAGE:

    • a description as to what the FLX is.

    I can make a guess, but it’s easier to hit Next.

  • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    We desperately need another option in this space. I love GOS, but another real competitor in the phone arena would force Google to start playing ball. Hoping this will push the software side forward. They can always fix hardware afterwards.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Looks like Dimensity 900 is in the same ballpark performance-wise as Snapdragon 845 in my now 7-year-old OnePlus 6, which runs Mobile NixOS with a (patched) mainline kernel, no Hallium trickery. While having another Linux-first phone is nice and I’m sure the experience would be better (like you wouldn’t need to flash an old OxygenOS just for GPS to work), I’d be expecting more for $550.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Holy crap! A NixOS-on-phone user in the wild! You are rocking my dream setup. How’s your experience been with it? Is it remotely daily drivable for phone things?

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Eh, kind of? I’ve been using it as a phone on-and-off for a while now, the most annoying things are the awful call audio setup (I don’t think it’s even possible to call via bluetooth headphones), no wake-on-call (which sucks for a phone), lack of a good map app (I miss OsmAnd so badly), meh battery life, and other small paper cuts here and there like semi-broken push notifications and buggy GPS.

        I’m avoiding all the anbox/waydroid faffing around for now, in hopes that I will be able to run OsmAnd through android-translation-layer at some point.

    • DeathByDenim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      From the product page:

      Powered by Linux at its core, our device transforms the mobile experience into something far beyond ordinary smartphones. It combines the stability and openness of a full desktop-class operating system with the convenience of a pocket-sized device. This means it is not limited to mobile apps alone. Native Linux applications and Android apps run side by side, delivering true versatility and freedom of choice

      I suspect it uses Waydroid so there may be issues with Android apps that rely on Google Play services or even worse, depend on the Play Integrity API.