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This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy (www.yankodesign.com)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Suoko@feddit.it to c/android@lemmy.world
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Here is a video of android apps:

https://youtu.be/L7ZEUvl2oXA

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[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

why? why is this thing being posted so much everywhere?

linux phone

actually halium

hardware kill switches

I guess I just can't see the utility vs leaving the phone at home since I don't arrange 3AM deals by the docks

android app support

all we see is a shaky recording of a screen that looks like some gui to control waydroid settings

we have actual hardware now that works really well, has almost mainline linux kernel support, does not rely on oem hacks and proprietary blobs on top of android kernels to be useful, and is available now for $50 second hand in good condition

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Do you mean postmarketOS compatible phones? Because I don't see what else you could be talking about in regards to phone hardware with mainline Linux.

[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, I mean the 2018 era SDM845 bunch of phones. They mostly work. While postmarketOS is the community that made linux on phones possible, it is not the only thing that you can run on these, there is actual choice. I personally liked Mobian very much.

Making linux phones more widely adopted will require wider community interest and halium is just not the way forward.

Edit: screenshot to illustrate my point, my OnePlus 6T running NixOS in UEFI mode (based on this writeup by /u/chayleaf@lemmy.ml:

spoiler

[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

thanks for the linked writeup, always new stuff to learn.

I'm on 6T and mobian, how's your luck with taming cameras?

[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

haha, none at all! I've spent like 6 months trying to boot normal NixOS instead of mobile-nixos, got it booting last week, almost nothing works, currently I'm trying to build a newer kernel and maybe fix sound.

I quite like the boot chain that I achieved (bootloader -> tianocore EDK II UEFI from Renegade Project -> normal systemd-boot) and I also installed the whole thing via USB by mounting disks directly.

On Mobian I think at least one camera did work but was purple all over, never actually tested the hardware on android.

All mobile distributions ship without kernel modules that I need, compiling manually on every update is not really sustainable, this is the reason why my setup is so convoluted.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago

The fact of this gets posted and upvoted on !android@lemdro.id shows how much goodwill Google burned with the enthusiast community.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 59 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

De-junked url: https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/09/23/this-linux-phone-with-android-app-support-has-three-kill-switches-for-complete-privacy/

This is the "Furi" phone that runs Debian underneath. As I remember it was around $550 for a phone with no headphone jack, no SD slot, and the usual sealed battery (no idea about replacements but maybe that info is somewhere). There was another thread about it a few days ago.

I'm not that excited but maybe others here will be.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah. The original before this had a jack, etc. Actually want the original but apparently theyre not selling it anymore.

[–] toothpaste_sand@lemy.nl 7 points 9 hours ago

I mean—it's a good step in the direction of an actually usable Linux phone. And that would be great, being able to get a mobile OS outside of Google / Apple's influence.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It says on the article it can take SD cards up to 1tb, and according to a reddit comment from someone who daily drives one, it has a removable back panel and battery.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 16 points 12 hours ago

Actually they have a video on yet about a removable battery which is also waterproof, maybe the new model though.

I never heard about this phone before, but its android container seems very well engineered. I wonder how banking apps and android auto behave

[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 hours ago

them dudes should allow us paupers to get at the "furyos" with our shitty $50 phones. or at least put the evidently complete product it in the hands of someone who ran linux phones (i.e. experience with mobian, pmOS, phosh, etc) instead of confused youtubers swiping the same two screens left/right not undestanding dick about the issues.

I am not spending a multiple of the total of all my hardware combined in order to find out it has the same performance and issues my oneplus 6t with mobian has.

y'all with the graphenes and co., respectfully, you don't understand what you're talking about.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

6.7inch screen, wtf.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 30 minutes ago

Fuck you. I want a screen this size.

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Because of the stupidly large screen and since Google keeps taking away android functionalities it might be good as a mini computer along with a cheap android device that you actually keep in your pocket.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

No, just convert any laptop into Linux if you want an open-source computer. All these phablets are extremely unfriendly to people with hand pain/injuries. Bigger is not better and I really wish manufacturers knocked this off. Screens also dig into battery life tremendously.

[–] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 8 points 12 hours ago

that button placement looks pretty bad. the 3 switches are right where you would be grabbing the phone. the power button looks like its on the opposite side to the volume button so when you go to change the volume (with one hand) youre likely to press the power button by accident.

[–] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 4 points 11 hours ago

No thanks, I stay with grapheneOS for the moment

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yes , it's got decent hardware, but they should cut the price off in half

[–] Omer_Ash@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Big companies sell their expensive phones for cheap because they'll get their money selling your data and showing you ads. A phone like this won't get any money out of you other than the money you give when buying the phone. So it makes sense that it's pricey.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 24 minutes ago

"Big companies sell their high end phones for cheap"

What crack rock are you sleeping under? I can buy a street legal used vehicle for less than the "latest and greatest" samsung or Apple phone.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 12 points 12 hours ago

While I agree with that, they don't have the luxury of scale of mass production, so it's not possible for them (yet hopefully)

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

The response time looks really slow in the video. Not sure I've ever seen a loading logo for the settings menu before.