after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.
i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.
so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)
the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)
#FuriOS update 13.0.8 for #FLX1 has been delayed by about 10 days, but you why was this?
I decided to find the reason for the battery drain here is what we found
firstly, packagekit is a battery hog, so we wrote a #GNOME software plugin for aptkit for system updates, second was related to modems mainloop being blocked (sometimes and inconsistently) and not going to sleep and last (the hardest to find) was with the WiFi driver not going to sleep correctly.
All fixed up and landing this month!
There is a caveat, though:
"…it's based on #Debian testing, but it doesn't use the Debian #kernel. It runs on top of the Krypton build of kernel 4.19, and uses #Halium to call Android drivers…"
I.e. it is not a "first class #Linux" phone like #Pinephone (which I run with kernel 6.12) or #Librem5. Still better than Android, I guess 
Fantastic https://furilabs.com/fantastic-feb-news/
FOSDEM was a great experience for the FuriLabs team and we can now announce that we have officially sold out of our first batch of FuriPhones and the second is on it's way!
Gallery App https://furilabs.com/gallery-app/
We built a gallery app for FuriOS. It is a much requested addition to the FuriOS ecosystem and although it has a small amount of rough edges, it is very much usable.
Initially the plan for bootman was to make it split a partition from LVM and reuse that for dual boot, but then @doggestman brought up sd card for installation storage which sounded good, so i decided to make it work. now, it can now boot from that too.
This will also allow for installation of other operating systems such as SailfishOS or Ubuntu Touch when they get ported over to the device, so its not limited to FuriOS only.
someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and my initial thought process was well, probably not out of the box since during the boot process EL2 is locked and even if kernel has KVM, it will never initialize correctly.
so today after finishing my daily tasks i decided to take a stab at our bootloader, preloader and trustzone's source code.
Lo and behold, turns out i did indeed cook.
Docker support will land in the next release too!
Update 13.0.4
The FuriOS 13.0.4 monthly update is here, featuring the latest changes from the GNOME and Debian projects, as well as some of our own special magic sauce: SMS and modem crash fixes, improved mobile data reliability, an easy way to use your FLX1 to charge other USB-C devices (pretty cool!) and initial support for LTE bands 2, 4, 12, and 66 
If you are looking to buy a new phone, consider #FLX1 from @furilabs. You can still run Android apps if you need to, but for most things you can use the same apps that you use on laptop (many of them adapted to fit on a smaller screen like I'm using Firefox right now). FuriOS is based on #Debian #Trixie. I have a Purism Librem 5, but most people in my circle find it very expensive/unaffordable, but FLX1 is very much comparable price to most Android phones of similar spec. #FreeSoftware.
