jaidan

Yes. I have been daily driving one for almost 2 years. No it's not as polished as an iPhone of Samsung, but it also doesn't have the backing and history those phones have. In the time I've had it, the improvements have been huge. Some say it's a bit laggy - I don't think it is, I think this is down to not having animations to tide you over between this view and that view. It works. It can run banking apps in Android. It doesn't have to run android. It's a 6 core CPU. The later models have 8GB ram (mine has 6GB and it's fine). I have tried Pinephone and found that to be horrifically slow. I like that I can write my own apps and also use a mouse with it if I want - then you have the dock to use a monitor. Out of the phones mentioned in this article, it sounds like the Furi phone would out perform most of them.

I figure supporting this effort is my little way to make a change in the world and help bring freedom back to our devices, which I now have :)

This is exactly how tradesmen and craftsmen use their hands. I guess they don’t teach this at university :D

I’ve been daily driving Linux Mint for about 4 years. It’s usable and stable with standard software packages and can also be tweaked in the Linux way if you so need it.

Another person mentioned Ubuntu if coming from Mac. I haven’t considered it before but they’re probably right.

I was using Mac at home, but Windows at work. So moving to Mint was easy.

Ubuntu was OK on high performance hardware but when they introduced snaps nothing worked so I moved to Mint.

HTH

I’ve never used a palm pilot, but I do have a Furi FLX1. If you don’t run the android container in it, then you aren’t exposed to the duopoly.

It works as a phone. It works for documents, contacts, calendars etc. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse work, as does a USBC dock (but no DP).

I like it a lot.

Sounds like you have a rule match to auto forward on certain criteria. Have you checked your rules?

I thought the same originally. Then after speaking with the online chat and realising Wayne was a Queenslander, I bought one. There’s enough people in the Matrix and Telegram channels now to know there is a real phone. Even look at the GitHub activity. It’s busy.

Yeah it is. I have the Signal app installed in Android, but I only use it to initiate the Signal setup. Then use the desktop flatpak in FuriOS as my daily driver. You can change the look of it to be similar to the mobile app and a recent change (like a week ago) has made resizing the contact list easier from a touch screen rather than having to use a mouse the first time.

The Telegram and Matrix channels have been great for people sharing tips like this.

There’s a flatpak signal that works great in FuriOS too

Yep. Been daily driving since September.

I love it.

No DP Alt mode.

FLX1 is fast. It’s useful. It has regular updates that improve experience. Battery lasts 1.5 days with moderate usage.

Look on the bright side. Locking bootloaders has the potential to break the duopoly by driving more people towards Linux phones or other unlocked devices. The more people that move, the stronger those communities get. I've been daily driving a Furi for 3 months now and am glad to have options outside of the duopoly.

Why not consider a smart phone that has good hardware, supports VoLTE and doesn't use Android or Apple? I've been daily driving a Furi FLX1 for over a month now. You can make it as smart or dumb as you like and you can even use it to charge another phone!

After looking what alternative mobile OSs lately, there seem to be a few around. The ones that have appealed to me so far are Ubuntu Touch, Mobian and FuriOS. I see there will be a Ubuntu based version here soon. What I can’t understand though, is why don’t these really clever people work together on fewer solutions with similar end goals? Is it that it’s difficult to manage opinions and decisions? Or that people don’t check the market before developing alternatives? Or something else?