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fsfloveryesterday at 9:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Doesn't it have closed drivers making porting hard? Perhaps you could consider porting it to Pinephone?


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OhMeadhbhtoday at 12:00 AM

Not sure. I thought the FuriPhone's advantage was that they were making it in conjunction with the ODM so you didn't have to use halium to call into Android. But a quick google search tells me I'm mistaken. Maybe I was thinking of the FairPhone?

I would consider the PinePhone, but my experience with it left me cold. And they EoL'd the Pro and the original PinePhone is fairly anemic by modern standards. I'm not sure it could run HaikuOS at acceptable speed. My memory was the PinePhone also had some land-mines with respect to drivers, but it's been several years since I touched mine, so I could be mistaken.

I'll probably have to spin my own hardware again. I really dislike writing drivers from scratch.