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

haveaniceday

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

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)

dieharddan

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

poVoq

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.

libremax

@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 "

trainailleur

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?

libremax

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

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?

libremax

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

poVoq

From the specs:

USB Type-C with HDMI support

I hope that works as well

trainailleur

@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.

Nathan123

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

trainailleur

@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.

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 ^^

A Former User

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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?

arubislander

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.

Scofus

@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.

arubislander

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.