With a de-Googled Android device you get lots more apps, but it's still Android.
This is Debian atop an Android kernel, with Android in a container. The native OS is a desktop Linux. You can upgrade your OS with `apt update ; apt-get full-upgrade -y`.
If you want a pocket Linux phone, I think it's about the best.
I tested with 2 different USB-C docks and a USB-C to HDMI monitor cable. They're the only ones I have.
One is from a Gemini PDA and has USB-A, USB-C and Ethernet. I think I did not test Ethernet but I can do that. The dock contains an Ethernet controller: it's a USB-attached Ethernet card, effectively. It works on Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, etc.
As far as I recall the FLX1 detected the Ethernet port but I didn't test it.
The other dock has audio, various sizes of USB, and HDMI out. All the ports worked except display. You can drive the phone with a full sized keyboard and mouse, which is amusing but useless. You can power the phone from the dock while in use.
But it can't drive a display, which is a damned shame and a deal-breaker for the form-factor. Otherwise this could be a real PC in your pocket.
The company told me it was working on wireless display support but I do not own any wireless displays to test with.
I'm sure you're right but to people not in the religion, this is a non-difference.
"This is the home of a 47th level battle mage, and so it is important to call it a fortress or an enchanter's fortified tower. Only if he graduates to level 50 or above does it become a full Keep."
(As a side note, the battle mage is actually a 300kg dude called Kevin who lives in a bedsit his mum pays for.)
Bruh, I'm not in the religion. I'm a fan of existing and moving through the world, so I find it helpful to understand the human structures of power that influence that world. Bishops are political appointees, with power over a region roughly between a US House Rep and a Senator.
You can use whatever words you like, but people are similarly free to judge you for your ignorance. Willfulness doesn't change its fundamental nature.
> a Macintosh-like UI experience for half the price
The original Macintosh was launched January 1984 for $2,495.
The original ST was launched June 1985 for $799.
In other words, not half the price -- less than a third of the price. The marketing slogan was "Power without the price" and it was true.
Tech was changing faster than now in those days, but even so, the ST was a radical machine. You got a lot for the money.
By September 1984 the 512kB "Fat Mac" was launched but it was more expensive: $3,195.
Yes, Commodore's contemporary Amiga was more impressive, with better graphics, better sound, better multitasking, but it was $1,285 the month after the ST. Also, a single-floppy 512kB Amiga was not much fun. (Like a single-floppy 128kB Mac!) As the ST's OS was in ROM, a single-floppy 512kB machine was actually quite usable. For both a Mac and an Amiga, you really wanted twin floppies, or better still, a hard disk.
> In other words, not half the price -- less than a third of the price. The marketing slogan was "Power without the price" and it was true.
I had friends later marveling I missed out on the Macintosh world of the 1980s, but the pricing was not even remotely an option! So dang expensive for a lower middle class kid.
I own a Mac Plus, an Atari 1040ST and an Amiga 1200, but I didn't when they were new.
By 1989 I could just afford to buy myself a 2nd hand Acorn Archimedes A310, an 8MHz 32-bit RISC computer with a 20MB hard disk... but it nothing like it existed for any price in 1984 or 1985.
But I was still at school in 1984, and had to be happy with a 48K ZX Spectrum, a black-and-white portable TV as a display, and a single ZX Microdrive for 85kB of random-access storage.
One of the remarkable things about both the ST and the Amiga was that they had optional add-ons that contained Apple ROM chips, and with them, they could natively boot MacOS and thus run real Mac apps. Both machines' hardware capabilities comfortably exceeded the Mac's, so they could easily run Mac stuff and run it well.
Mac software was often fantastically expensive by Atari and Commodore prices, but even so, this was a very attractive option -- and even with the emulator, the result still cost substantially less than an actual Mac.
Of course, longer term, Apple's pricing means that Apple is alive and well and profitable, while Commodore and Atari collapsed decades ago.
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