Overview
- Flipper Devices announced the Flipper One on Thursday, May 21, 2026, and published hardware specs for a pocketable ARM Linux computer powered by an eight-core Rockchip RK3576 with Mali GPU and 8 GB of RAM.
- The design is modular with an M.2 slot, PCIe, GPIO, USB 3.1, SATA and multiple network ports so users can add SDRs, NVMe or SATA storage, Wi‑Fi cards, AI accelerators or cellular modems.
- A dual-processor architecture pairs the RK3576 Linux host with an RP2350 microcontroller to manage the display, power, buttons and boot so some functions work even when Linux is off.
- Flipper Devices says Collabora is helping upstream RK3576 support into mainline Linux but key pieces remain unmerged, notably NPU acceleration, hardware video decoding and some power and USB DP Alt‑Mode drivers.
- The project is actively soliciting community contributions through a public developer portal, plans a Kickstarter later this year with a target base price near $350, and warns that final pricing and timing depend on unresolved engineering and supply risks.