This Linux phone seems good-it runs a mobile version of Debian Linux. Not as much storage as the BraX3 but all the hardware seems like it works in Linux!
I did notice that it runs an old kernel-maybe that’s what we need in Ubuntu Touch to get all the hardware working?
Here is one of the articles I found. This is almost a BraX3!
I have the FLX1, so some of my observations would not be valid.
Last time I tried, the UBPorts available on it is an older version with no way to upgrade (I tried). Maybe that’s changed.
The FuriOS which is based on Droidian is surprisingly usable. It would never be something I’d hand to my mom, not even my wife, but if you are somewhat linux-savvy, it can be a daily driver. I did so for months before succumbing to android (at least I’m using iodeos). Running android apps was a bit hit or miss. I didn’t need it for the basic android stuff, but rather something I just couldn’t work around, such as using the Sam’s Club or Costco App to use my membership card or do the scan in store thing (Sam’s Club only let me access the membership card, and Costco wouldn’t even load), the Taco Bell app to make an order (this worked), different banking apps to do banking app stuff (some worked, many didn’t), charging apps for the car (didn’t work), etc. It also really dragged the system down when Waydroid (I forget what FuriOS calls it, but it’s just a fork of Waydroid) was running, so I tried keeping it off. Basically, I had to carry around another phone for those times that my main one wouldn’t do the one thing I needed, whether it was to let me charge my car on a long trip, do banking, or because I want to do the Mobile Pickup at the Sam’s Club cafe vs waiting in line 15 minutes.
If I could have dual booted FuriOS and actual android…I would likely still be using it as my daily driver. I got used to all the quirks, it was rather nice actually. Loved that it had full desktop firefox (I really miss having containers on the android version).
Edit: Oh, and last I checked dual sim wasn’t actually supported, that was a bit of a bummer since it means I can’t use a cheap annual plan for talk/text and a “free” data sim for data (free as in it’s already paid for, might as well use it).
Their new phone says it dual boots android and Linux plus it has dual Sims now!
It says muti-boot on their page.
The way those “Linux” phones work it would be much better to have only one installation with the option to either launch a Linux GUI or the normal Android Framework, you could even switch in real time.
Their new phone says it dual boots android and Linux plus it has dual Sims now!
It says muti-boot on their page.
Awesome, I will have to dust it off and try that out. I love the idea of having a “real” Android install for those times when Waydroid just isn’t enough. And since Android is where you would likely have a lot/most of your confidential info (like bank apps), it makes it easy to to cross the border without worrying if someone is going to copy the phone…they can copy the linux phone if they can figure it out, but they wouldn’t get the actual Android phone (since it lives on an sd card…heck you could just not use the OS on the actual phone and just dual boot linux or android from the sd card, that would be awesome…except for the performance hit).
Ask them before u buy if that’s what they mean by “multi-boot”!