FLX1s Is Launched
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·September 20, 2025hackrmn
marcos100
And can you give a number on the "vocal minority"? Because companies usually sell what customers want and if the majority of the phones on the market is big, then that's what people want.
LorenDB
I like large screens because I value having plenty of context visible, e.g. in a webpage or a conversation.
Also, don't forget the bigger batteries that large phones enable.
Filligree
Do smaller phones still exist?
Genuinely asking. I’m on iPhone, which hasn’t changed form factor in quite a while.
simjnd
New Linux phone drops
Looks inside
Still the good old A76 and A55 cores (they're 8 years old at this point)
spaqin
As much as I admire the FOSS nature, it's always the problem of underspeccing and overpricing the tech at the same time.
hackrmn
And don't forget _overdimensioning_. Vendors love this because volume scales cubically with increase in any one of width, height and depth -- they're not the ones carrying the phone, but they can pack more features into one, quite literally. FOSS vendors more so since they need more ground to compete on (hardware being older and price being high enough because of economy of scale).
marcos100
No economies of scale. Niche things will always be more expensive.
gigatexal
Laughs in iPhone ;-)
homarp
the FuriPhone FLX1 was A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
greyw
Looks interesting. Posh is a bit too adventurous for me (I wish there was a smartphone running FOSS android out of the box)
nunobrito
The website is down from all the visitors at the moment.
Anyone here can share their experience with the phone?
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cluckindan
Expecting a design lawsuit from Apple
OccamsMirror
Hug of death :(
taminka
how does that happen btw? like it's understandable when a website is hosted on a vape (lol), but even a cheap vps should be able to handle like 10-20k views in the span of a couple hours (which is the max load from HN i'm assuming), unless you're hosting video or some such
kouteiheika
> how does that happen btw?
People write their sites in slow languages "because it's I/O bound anyway" and put content which could easily be static in a DB.
Filligree
A slow DB. If you were to use Redis as a backing store…
Then you’d almost certainly be overcomplicating things, but it shouldn’t be slow.
tazjin
Serve even statical pages with direct DB access on every hit, using some slow and bloated JS/Python backend, and voila.
RALaBarge
It depends! You can make a website with a static text file or you can make a video run as the background. There are more ways to mess it up than to get it right, actually.
yorwba
input_sh
Actually useful archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs....
> The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.
eps
Seems to be working fine.
pessimizer
https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s
"Error establishing a database connection"
So it only works fine if you don't care what a FLX1s is.
Why do they keep making them BIGGER and BIGGER? Our hands don't grow that fast, most adult males have been struggling using their phone with one hand. Only the vocal minority prefers to oversized phone-computer, most of us just want to use it briefly on the go before tucking it back into the pocket, without it tearing a hole in it (which my last two phones have done).
If anyone is listening -- can you put a cap on the dimensions? 5.5" screen is plenty, if I want the cinema experience I will either a) go to cinema or b) use some VR/AR device, for the rest of use cases, like watching a movie on a bus/plane/train, it doesn't weigh up against carrying a brick with you.