Hello, I just found this phone after a couple months of looking for a good Linux smartphone and somehow missing this, and honestly it looks amazing, I'm likely going to get one in a month or two, but I was just wondering how the phone is? It appears to be actively supported which is great, but what are some pros and cons of the device and how well does it work? Like the battery life, android app support, maps and GPS, etc. There's not really any reviews on youtube, and not much info anywhere else, so I wanted to ask about it before buying one. (I honestly thought the product might not actually exist at first, furilabs should definitely put out more/better videos, or someone should make a review of the phone, there really isn't much information out there about it aside from their own site and yt channel, which is a shame because the phone seems incredibly impressive, especially compared to other linux phones, and it's open-source unlike sailfish which I love)
I mean they are about even. SFOS, yes parts of the UI are closed source while the FLX1 isn't.....But both rely on hybris, essentially android sys calls to interact with the hardware and there are closed source blobs as well (modem for one).
That is the trade off for usability in the linux phone space.
Personally I loved SFOS, but disliked the lack of stuff in the repos and its harder to find an SFOS phone which can do VoLTE. Both of which the FLX1 solves.
@sword i do want to add that hybris is not a system call translator, all it does is allow us to hook some symbols from shared objects for stuff we cannot redistribute in the linux userspace. there is no translation, just compatibility to allow some android shared objects to run in a linux userspace. the base rootfs is debian.