May 2026
After the moment I described in the previous post, I spent the evening in my hotel room doing something I rarely make time for: looking back.
What We've Built
FuriLabs began in mid-2023, and in just three years we have shipped four hardware products
- FLX1, our first Linux smartphone
- FLX1s, the second-generation device featuring hardware privacy switches
- FLH1, the Convergence Hub, enabling desktop use via external display
- FLX1s+, our third phone, launching in the coming weeks
Four products in three years, built by a small team committed to shipping only the kinds of devices we would genuinely want to use ourselves.
The Software
FuriOS has had 15 releases from 13.0.0 through 14.0.2, with a combined 450 curated changelog entries:
| Label | Count |
|---|---|
| Added | 123 |
| Improved | 203 |
| Fixed | 124 |
| Total | 450 |
These are not raw commit logs or automatically generated entries. Every item in that changelog reflects a deliberate decision that a change was meaningful enough to ship and important enough to communicate to our users. The actual volume of work behind those releases is considerably larger.
The ratio matters too. Improved at 203 entries comfortably leads, which is what a maturing platform looks like. Over time, the focus shifts from simply adding features to refining and strengthening what already exists.
The Community
None of this would mean much without the people who supported us early on: the users who submitted detailed bug reports, the developers who contributed to projects we rely on and the people who recommended FuriLabs before we had an established track record.
That community has been the most surprising part of this journey. We expected the hardware to be difficult and the software to take longer than planned. What we did not expect was how meaningful it would feel to see people genuinely care about what we were building, and to have that enthusiasm reflected back at us.
What's Next
The FLX1s sold out last week. The FLX1s+ is nearly here.
The full FuriOS changelog is publicly available for anyone interested in seeing what three years of continuous development looks like, line by line.
What is next? We rarely talk about what's coming, just in case we hit a snag or two on the way, but 2026 will bring more hardware and, for the first time, something beyond it: a privacy-focused software project we've been building in the background that we think will speak for itself when the time comes.
FuriLabs builds privacy-focused Linux smartphones running FuriOS, a Debian-based OS. The FLX1s is no longer available. The FLX1s+ is coming soon.