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    New Smartphone /w physical keyboard, Sailfish, unlocked bootloader: F(x)tec Pro1

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      haveaniceday last edited by

      There is a new phone upcoming: the F(x)tec Pro 1
      https://www.fxtec.com/pro1/
      Shipping is said to start in october.

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      It has a physical Keyboard, unlocked bootloader, modern hardware and ships with Android 9, Lineage OS as well as Sailfish.
      The physical keyboard would be extremely convenient when working with the terminal app and for libertine X11 apps.

      Question: Does Sailfish ease the porting process for devices? E.g. with regards to drivers, HAL etc?

      The Specs:

      DESIGN
      Dimensions: 154 x 73.6 x 13.98 mm

      DISPLAY
      5.99-inch 2160 x 1080 (FHD+) AMOLED with curved edges
      Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

      KEYBOARD
      Physical Keyboard layout: 5-row, 64-key, staggered, backlit, landscape QWERTY keyboard
      Keyboard mechanism: sliding (angled)

      MEMORY
      RAM: 6GB LPDDR4
      Storage: 128GB, expandable via microSD card up to 2TB

      CAMERA
      Front Camera: 8MP, fixed focus, f/2.0
      Rear Cameras: 12MP (Sony IMX363), f/1.8, 1.4µm pixels + 5MP, fixed focus, f/2.0

      VIDEO
      Video: capture up to 4K @ 30fps, playback up to [email protected] (supports H264 (AVC), H265 (HEVC),VP9)

      PROCESSOR
      Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 MSM8998

      NETWORK
      Global LTE (FDD+TDD), WCDMA/UMTS, CDMA/EVDO, GSM/EDGE
      Cellular Bands;
      GSM: 2, 3, 5, 8
      WCDMA: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8
      CDMA/EVDO: BC0, BC1
      TD-SCDMA: 34/39
      TDD-LTE: 38/39/40/41(100mhz)
      FDD-LTE: 1, 2/25, 3, 4, 5/26, 7, 8, 12/17, 13, 20, 28

      CONNECTIVITY
      WiFi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (WiFi 5)
      Bluetooth: 5.0 + LE
      NFC (supports Google Pay)
      USB Type-C with HDMI support

      BATTERY
      3200 mAh
      Talk time 10hrs
      Standby time 480hrs
      Quick Charge™ 3.0

      SIM
      Dual Nano SIM with microSD support (shared with SIM #2),
      no SIM tool needed

      CUSTOM APPLICATIONS
      Landscape-optimized apps: launcher, calendar, email

      SOUND
      Speakers: dual, stereo
      Audio connectivity: 3.5mm TRRS headphone Jack
      FM Radio

      NOTIFICATION
      Flash: dual colour, dual LED
      Notification light: Yes (RGB LED)

      SENSORS
      Fingerprint reader: Yes (side mounted)
      GPS/A-GPS, Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Ambient Light, Hall effect

      BUTTONS
      Power/lock key, Volume rocker, 2-stage camera shutter key

      OS
      Android 9.0 Pie
      Bootloader unlockable, supports other popular OS’s (Lineage, Sailfish etc)

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      • dieharddan
        dieharddan last edited by

        looks like a decent phone, looking through the forums they mention after sailfish is working, they will be porting ubuntu touch as well

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        • poVoq
          poVoq last edited by

          Looks like it will ship to customers next week:
          https://liliputing.com/2019/10/fxtec-pro1-smartphone-with-keyboard-slider-set-to-ship-within-a-week.html

          SoC wise it is fairly similar to a OnePlus3, so I guess a UT port is quite feasible.

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            libremax @poVoq last edited by

            @poVoq said in New Smartphone /w physical keyboard, Sailfish, unlocked bootloader: F(x)tec Pro1:

            SoC wise it is fairly similar to a OnePlus3, so I guess a UT port is quite feasible.

            "A quick demo about how #UbuntuTouch #UBPorts working on #Pro1. Many thanks to the community developers. The OS looks beautiful and elegant in both orientations and the port is already running very smoothly with most functions working. https://twitter.com/chenliangchen/status/1272903474393604100?s=20 "

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              trainailleur last edited by

              Since I have a Pro1 sitting here gathering dust waiting on the LineageOS port, this is of great interest to me. 🙂 Does anyone know where to get that image?

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              • libremax
                libremax @trainailleur last edited by

                @trainailleur https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1qQtVgbmRezbGWovfxulUvhiOkhtehfTP&export=download

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                  trainailleur @libremax last edited by trainailleur

                  @libremax said in New Smartphone /w physical keyboard, Sailfish, unlocked bootloader: F(x)tec Pro1:

                  @trainailleur https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1qQtVgbmRezbGWovfxulUvhiOkhtehfTP&export=download

                  Thanks. Downloading now. 🙂 Any details about it? Who created it? How to flash?

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                  • libremax
                    libremax @trainailleur last edited by

                    @trainailleur No more detail than that : https://twitter.com/chenliangchen/status/1273178573189365765?s=20

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                    • poVoq
                      poVoq last edited by

                      From the specs:

                      USB Type-C with HDMI support
                      

                      I hope that works as well 🙂

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                        trainailleur @libremax last edited by

                        @libremax said in New Smartphone /w physical keyboard, Sailfish, unlocked bootloader: F(x)tec Pro1:

                        @trainailleur No more detail than that : https://twitter.com/chenliangchen/status/1273178573189365765?s=20

                        Many thanks. Somehow I missed reading all the followups. I haven't twittered (tweetened?) in a while I guess. 😃

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                          Nathan123 last edited by

                          Sounds totally good to me...but $700???

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                            trainailleur @Nathan123 last edited by

                            @Nathan123 said in New Smartphone /w physical keyboard, Sailfish, unlocked bootloader: F(x)tec Pro1:

                            Sounds totally good to me...but $700???

                            The hardware is very slick in person. And it's also unique to the current industry. Without a zombie brand name (e.g., Blackberry), unique hardware isn't going to attract the sort of market share to deliver economies of scale.

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                            • Keneda
                              Keneda last edited by Keneda

                              Makes me think of the Astro Slide...
                              https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4194/what-do-you-think-about-astro-slide-project/9?_=1592474844222

                              I was told that an expansive phone is likely not to see ubuntu touch ported on it, i feel like it's not so true now ^^

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                                  Scofus last edited by Scofus

                                  So I have a question. It says the Pro1X has an unlocked bootloader. Please pardon the normy question, but is that the same thing as the Pinephone's ability to load an OS from an SD card?

                                  Like can I get the Lineage Pro1X, and boot UT from a microSD?

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                                  • arubislander
                                    arubislander last edited by

                                    No apologies needed. But no, that is not the same thing. It simply means that you can flash a different OS to the phone without needing to jump through any hoops to be allowed to.

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                                      Scofus @arubislander last edited by

                                      @arubislander OK, so if I start with a Lineage Pro1X, and decide to switch to UT, then it's a one way street. I'm only on UT until I decide to flash to Lineage.

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                                      • arubislander
                                        arubislander last edited by

                                        No, it is not a one way street. You could always flash Lineage again should you wish to. You can simply not have both at the same time. But that last limitation has nothing to do with the bootloader.

                                        Also I understood that the makers are looking into providing a multi-boot solition for this phone.

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