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It takes lots of engineering effort to make things svelte. That makes it incredibly hard for "indie" phone makers to come up with something competitive in this regard. Likewise with price --- Android phones with similar specs can be found for only $200.


Why bother when you could pay HMD (aka "Nokia"), Foxconn, ASUS, etc to make a dramatically better phone with your logo and your OS on it?


Can you actually do this with the numbers Furilabs probably expects to hit? Surely there's a minimum number to order before the companies you mentioned will even take you serious.


The Linux phones all fail anyway so if you don't have the volume just don't bother.


Are you suffering from burnout?

There's an undercurrent of despair in your comment. Don't do it to yourself, you only get one brain. Help us available. DM me if you want.




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