My new Linux phone: After several years with a #pinephone (and a #pinephonepro , and also a #librem5, that never managed to make proper us of), I got myself the new #FLX1 phone from #FuriLabs .

https://furilabs.com/

I have so far not switched to it because it will take time. My initial impression is that it is much closer to a Just Works[tm] phone that I can actually recommend people to use. I guess I'll report about that later once I started using it.

There are two things I'm concerned about:

First off: mainline kernel: The phone is based on an Android kernel and a translation layer. This is simpler in the short run, but is more difficult to support in the long run. In the booth, the developer mentioned some plans (though nothing concrete) to switch to mainline kernel. I hope this works out.

But more importantly: what is the relation between this project and the rest of the #MobileLinux community? The @furilabs@fosstodon.org booth at #FOSDEM25 was in building AW (next to some interesting embedded stuff) and not next to the three other Linux-mobile booths. They were hardly mentioned in the Linux On Mobile talks track .

The phone itself seems to use something that is quite an up-to-date #mobian (#debian) system. I still need to figure out if I can also use it as a developer phone.

Anyway, it's good to see more people making Linux phones proper products. I really hope that their improvements will be shared with the rest of the community where applicable.