Flipper Devices has officially introduced the Flipper One open-source hardware portable Arm Linux platform and networking and Edge AI multi-tool powered by a Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Arm Cortex-A72/A53 SoC, and featuring a Raspberry Pi RP2350 for low-level control.
You may think of it as a successor to the popular STM32-based Flipper Zero hardware and wireless hacking tool, but the company stresses that the Flipper One is NOT a replacement for the Flipper Zero. It is a different product with mainline Linux kernel support, no binary blobs (probably not 100% true), and open-source drivers, and operating at a different level of the networking and wireless stacks with dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, and optional 5G or 4G LTE modem.
Flipper One specifications:
- SoC – Rockchip RK3576
- CPU
- 4x Cortex-A72 cores @ 2.2GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 cores @ 1.8GHz
- Arm Cortex-M0 MCU at 400MHz
- GPU – ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2, OpenCL 2.1, and Vulkan 1.2
- NPU – 6 TOPS (INT8) AI accelerator with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, BF16, and TF32 mixed operations.
- VPU
- Video Decoder: H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and AVS2 up to 8K @ 30fps or 4K @ 120fps
- Video Encoder: H.264 and H.265 up to 4K @ 60fps, (M)JPEG encoder/decoder up to 4K @ 60fps
- CPU
- System Memory – 8GB LPDDR5
- Storage
- 64GB UFS 2.2
- MicroSD card slot (UHS-I SDR104)
- MCU subsystem
- SoC – Raspberry Pi RP2350 dual-core Arm Cortex-M33/RISC-V microcontroller @ 150 MHz with 264KB SRAM
- Storage – 16MB flash
- Display – 256 x 144 pixel display, 64-level grayscale, Gorilla glass; controlled by RP2350 MCU via QSPI
- Video Output
- HDMI 2.1 port up to 4Kp120 with HDMI CEC support
- DisplayPort 1.4 via USB-C port up to 4Kp120
- Audio
- 3.5mm audio (stereo out + microphone) jack
- Built-in microphone and speaker
- Nuvoton NAU8822 audio codec
- Networking and wireless
- 2x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports via Realtek RTL8211F-CG controllers
- Tri-band Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 2×2 MIMO and Bluetooth 5.2 via WXT2AM2101 module (MediaTek MT7921AUN)
- Optional 4G LTE or 5G modem via M.2 module and externally accessible Nano SIM (4FF) card slot
- USB
- USB 3.1 Type-A host port
- USB 3.1 Type-C host port
- USB 3.1 Type-C host/device port with DisplayPort Alt. mode, 5V-12V USB PD power input
- Expansion
- M.2 Key-B socket (PCIe 2.1 x1, USB 2.0, USB 3.1, SATA3, Serial Audio, UART / I2C / SIM card) for 2242/3042/3052 modules
- 20-pin header for GPIOs from MCU and CPU, USB 2.0 for CPU, 5V, 3.3V, and GND
- Debugging – Debug port for RK3576 SoC and RP2350 MCU
- Misc
- Directional touchpad, 5-button D-Pad
- Push-to-talk button, 5x control buttons (Esc, View, Power, Edit, Run), App switcher button, and Back button
- Power meter LEDs, network LEDs
- Passive heatsink for cooling
- Lanyard loop
- Power Supply
- 5-20V USB PD via USB-C port (3.6V to 24V in PD PPS mode while charging the battery)
- 7,000 mAh battery (note: mass production capacity not finalized)
- TI BQ25792 charger IC up to 3.32A
- TI BQ28Z610 fuel gauge
- Dimensions – 155 x 67 x 40 mm
- Weight – TBD
- Materials – PC/ABS body, TPU bumpers, PC/ABS buttons, anodized aluminum lanyard loop, anodized aluminum bracket
M.2 module cover, GPIO header 
Nano SIM slot, audio jack, and USB-C OTG + power port 
USB ports, HDMI 2.1 port, and dual GbE
Flipper Devices partnered with Collabora software development company for the upstreaming work for the Rockchip RK3576 to make sure the Flipper One supports “full mainline Linux kernel with no binary blobs, no proprietary drivers, and no vendor-locked board support package”. Some claims may be hard to meet, notably because the bootloader usually requires a closed-source binary blob for the RAM initialization (but an open-source alternative is being worked on), and more importantly, the firmware for WiFi and cellular is usually closed-source for regulatory (e.g., FCC) compliance.
Development is still in progress, and Flipper Devices welcomes users to contribute through the Developer Portal, containing information about hardware, firmware, Linux (Debian-based Flipper OS), UI using FlipCTL framework, testing, and documentation. It also includes task trackers, architectural discussions, and a live status of mainline Linux support. Finally, you’ll find several Flipper One-related repositories for the Linux build scripts, RP2350 MCU firmware, and more on GitHub.
Overall, the Flipper One will be a highly versatile, modular, open-source hardware and software Linux platform with networking and Edge AI capability. I’m using the future tense because the company is not quite ready to take orders at this time and will announce developer hardware availability, pricing, and consumer release timing in a future update.
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Founder of Flipper Devices Inc. (Pavel Zhovner) is russian. You should remember this fact before buying these products and answer the question: do you agree do support invasion and war by purchasing it?
The Russian people are not their government. As an American I hate and abhor everything about our current government, I am in public protest of everything they do (especially making our country a lapdog and military arm of the corrupt Israeli government and carrying out genocide on their behalf), and I vote against the current regime in every election I can. If I made a product and you bought it from me, would you be supporting the US government’s invasion and war? No, you’d be supporting one of its most fervent opponents. Think about that before spouting such nonsense.
That guy was born in Ukraine, attended Odesa National Polytechnic University, and the company is based in Delaware.
2803 Philadelphia Pike, Suite B #551
Claymont, DE 19703, USA
D-U-N-S number: 11-765-8681
wow dude you are seriously pathetic for doxing that guy just for simply stating the truth. your also scared of repercussions so you sent it anonymously
Wow, it gets even more stupid here in this ‘thread’. Ever heard of the Internet? The address is on the company’s public website and the other information can be found on Pavel’s public LinkedIn page.
And it needs very little skills to get the team’s view on the conflict: https://x.com/flipper_net/status/1503384490026151938/
From the context of the comment talking about a company being located in Delaware, you should be able to figure out that the Delaware (DE) address is probably the location of the company in Delaware. And what could this “D-U-N-S number” possibly mean? If only I had an engine that could search for this information.
I don’t even know how you leapt to the conclusion that I could dox another user also calling themselves “Anonymous”.
You managed to make yourself look worse than the OP, which is quite the achievement. What’s your X, Bluesky, or email, Mr. Anthony? Let’s have a conversation about you.
No he’s not. He’s a citizen of Ukraine, and never been a citizen of Russia.
Bro, then you shouldn’t buy anything from USA.
love the idea of having a powerful SoC at this size and portability.. but what can a average person do with this device?
Since it can output a full Linux desktop and has 8 GB of RAM, the average person can effectively do any mundane junk people do with a PC, like browsing the Web.
One of their slides says “TV media box… Movies and games on TV via HDMI”.
It would be an unnecessarily expensive way to go about it, since the Flipper Zero is $200. I guess this thing would be in the $300-500 range. A Radxa ROCK 4D with 2-16 GB RAM and the same SoC was $31-100 last year, and I’m sure there are other RK3576 TV boxes/sticks that are compact and ready to go, even if you can’t swing it around on a keychain.
Gizmodo’s article about Flipper One says their goal is to sell it for around $350. But “that will also depend on the number of backers who put money up.”
More interesting but basic stuff would include networking use cases (since it has two Ethernet ports), and “SDR radio via M.2 module”.
But I think the price will be high enough that Joe Average should stay away from it.
Possible typo: “the company is *now* quite ready”?
The Rockchip devices do actually run mainline Linux *without* binary blobs. In this way they are actually better than Pi SoCs.
The exception is that the uboot bootloader has not yet been fully open sourced
Yes, and it was a good choice to take the RK3576 and not the RK3588 because the GPU on the RK3588 require closed source software.
A RK3582 could have also be a option and you would still have display output but without acceleration.
Overall you can see they have spend some time into thinking how the goal of 100% opensource could be achieved. Lets hope for opensourced Raminit code and upstreamed u-boot support.