<story><title>Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard</title><url>https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sodman</author><text>I still consider my old Nokia E70[0] my favorite phone of all time, so I am definitely in the target demographic for this, as I&amp;#x27;m 100% sold on the usefulness of a physical keyboard on a phone... However the CPU just doesn&amp;#x27;t match the &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; branding, or the price range. I&amp;#x27;d personally rather throw an extra $200-300 on top to get a flagship CPU and then it would be close to a perfect phone for me! As it currently is, the Snapdragon 662 shipped in the pro-1x gets blown away by my current Pixel 5&amp;#x27;s Snapdragon 765G - and Pixel phones recently have been generally characterized as having &amp;quot;above-average hardware specs but not enough to justify flagship prices&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Separately, I am also curious for a phone like this that could run Android, LineageOS, and Ubuntu Touch - are there &amp;quot;dual boot&amp;quot; options in the mobile space? With 256GB storage it seems like it should be possible. I&amp;#x27;d like to have old reliable Android as a daily driver, but maybe periodically drop into a less stable but more flexible environment like ubuntu.&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nokia_E70&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nokia_E70&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k_</author><text>Seems like we&amp;#x27;re looking for similar things. I am currently waiting for delivery of my Astro Slide [0]&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;astro-slide-5g-transformer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;astro-slide-5g-transforme...&lt;/a&gt; which has android &amp;#x2F; linux dual boot. Not sure if performance are what you are looking for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard</title><url>https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sodman</author><text>I still consider my old Nokia E70[0] my favorite phone of all time, so I am definitely in the target demographic for this, as I&amp;#x27;m 100% sold on the usefulness of a physical keyboard on a phone... However the CPU just doesn&amp;#x27;t match the &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; branding, or the price range. I&amp;#x27;d personally rather throw an extra $200-300 on top to get a flagship CPU and then it would be close to a perfect phone for me! As it currently is, the Snapdragon 662 shipped in the pro-1x gets blown away by my current Pixel 5&amp;#x27;s Snapdragon 765G - and Pixel phones recently have been generally characterized as having &amp;quot;above-average hardware specs but not enough to justify flagship prices&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Separately, I am also curious for a phone like this that could run Android, LineageOS, and Ubuntu Touch - are there &amp;quot;dual boot&amp;quot; options in the mobile space? With 256GB storage it seems like it should be possible. I&amp;#x27;d like to have old reliable Android as a daily driver, but maybe periodically drop into a less stable but more flexible environment like ubuntu.&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nokia_E70&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nokia_E70&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevecat</author><text>The Nokia E72 was my favourite phone form-factor. I really wanted to try Android but was so resistive to keyboardless-phones that I bought a HTC ChaCha, regretted it immediately, and finally relented. I still miss a keyboard.</text></comment>