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When my #mobile phone will be KO, I'd like to have a true (#GNOME) #LinuxPhone … and the FuriPhone #FLX1 by @furilabs seems to be a good candidate 
Built on the Gigaset GX6 :
- Removable battery
- 2 SIMs slots AND micro SD
- Robust
- B1, B3, B7, B20 and B28 bandwith (French 4G)
- Debian GNOME + Android layer
- Jack input …
… but expensive and maybe a bit too big 
An opinion ?
› https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/ (Article)
› https://www.devicespecifications.com/en/model/b3dc5aa1 (Specs)
› https://youtu.be/cnIgkF3OzMs (Test 
by TuxWiz)
@danslerush @furilabs I've been eying this same phone. However, it's hard for me to justify buying one as I plunked down a bunch of money on a Pinephone Pro and accessories. I still can't use it as a daily driver, and that's disappointing.
The FLX1 uses Halium (which is why it gets great battery life) which I think is a big plus. However, some folks point out that by using Halium the FLX1 runs a much older kernel.
So...lots of pros and cons to think about.
@benpocalypse Thank you for your feedback ! And yes I see, but the FLX1 seems to be more reworked on the OS side with this "FuryOS" adaptation
Do you know where can I found the Halium / Kernel version report ?
@danslerush Sorry it took so long to find this, but this review is where I saw what kernel version it's running: https://blog.luigi311.com/furilabs-flx1/
Apparently as of FuriOS 13.0.3 it runs Linux kernel 4.19.233.
@benpocalypse My apologies for the long response time (I hadn't seen your comment), but are you kidding? Thank you very much for your research, the information and this link! So yes, possibly a big minus, in terms of security it's not ideal
@danslerush @furilabs It runs surprisingly stable, linux mobile on other devices has been mostly a miss with new updates breaking more than they fix, the Librem 5 worked well then after an update did not, so far the flx1 has worked well pulling from stable, or staging which is incredible in my mind. Android integration is way more robust than with the C2 Jolla Community phone Sailfish OS 5, wake from sleep works very well though occasionally I do have to toggle mobile data
FLX1 is definately the linux phone what I can recommended for daily driving. Fastest, best battery life, best performance and most stable. I have basicly tried and owned all options. This really just works and the core team of furilabs is really passionate about this.
But one correction: Gigaset is not the manufacturer and never was. The phone comes from the same factory (Gigaset slogan "Made in Germany" is really strange if you want to look into it.).
@danslerush @furilabs
I am also very interested in them. I am in batch two pre-order right now. Go pre-order one so we are that much closer. 
In the mean time to help break my Apple/Big tech dependency I picked up a Fairphone 4 with e /os from @murena and am really enjoying it so far.