But they’re not engineering it (at least not the first one - haven’t bothered looking into the new one yet). The first one was a rebadged phone from another company. I can’t find it now, but when I initially researched the phone someone pointed out how much the specs and appearance matched another android phone. They’ve also stated that they were working with a Chinese “partner” - likely a company that needs sales, and was willing to give the info needed to make drivers for their hardware.
@SanctimoniousApe Yes, I think the previous one may have been a Gigaset #GX6. That could be a good thing comparedto engineering a phone like Purism, Pine64, etc. It’s just going top to bottom, rather than the reverse, so normie-users get stuff working out of the box and can daily drive it.
I don’t think #FuriLabs are opposed to engineering a phone with mainline kernel support, but who is going to finance that? Certainly not enough users willing to pay for the purist approach - which I support BTW as #Librem5 / #postmarketOS user. So their approach does make sense with very limited money, time and support.
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The #FLX1 wasn’t just a rebranded gigaset, its just they both were getting the (almost) same phone from the same manufacturer. And as I understand its just not possible anymore to get it, thats why they went to #FLX1s, which at this time is completely new phone.
The unfortunate hardware decisions (jack, battery) were financially necessary to stay afloat, as it turns out its now cheaper to make a phone without jack and removable battery, based on their words
I never said otherwise, just pointed out that they weren’t engineering it from scratch. I agree there’s no need for that as long as they are given the info they need to write the drivers.
But they’re not engineering it (at least not the first one - haven’t bothered looking into the new one yet). The first one was a rebadged phone from another company. I can’t find it now, but when I initially researched the phone someone pointed out how much the specs and appearance matched another android phone. They’ve also stated that they were working with a Chinese “partner” - likely a company that needs sales, and was willing to give the info needed to make drivers for their hardware.
@SanctimoniousApe Yes, I think the previous one may have been a Gigaset #GX6. That could be a good thing comparedto engineering a phone like Purism, Pine64, etc. It’s just going top to bottom, rather than the reverse, so normie-users get stuff working out of the box and can daily drive it.
I don’t think #FuriLabs are opposed to engineering a phone with mainline kernel support, but who is going to finance that? Certainly not enough users willing to pay for the purist approach - which I support BTW as #Librem5 / #postmarketOS user. So their approach does make sense with very limited money, time and support.
@opensourceopenmind
@SanctimoniousApe
The #FLX1 wasn’t just a rebranded gigaset, its just they both were getting the (almost) same phone from the same manufacturer. And as I understand its just not possible anymore to get it, thats why they went to #FLX1s, which at this time is completely new phone.
The unfortunate hardware decisions (jack, battery) were financially necessary to stay afloat, as it turns out its now cheaper to make a phone without jack and removable battery, based on their words
I never said otherwise, just pointed out that they weren’t engineering it from scratch. I agree there’s no need for that as long as they are given the info they need to write the drivers.