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Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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I just want a high end phone that supports something like lineageos, has a micro SD slot, and decent battery life. Somehow it's hard to find.

Xiaomi Picophone F1. SD845, 4-6GB RAM, micro-sd slot, 4000mAh. Popular enough for treble and lineageOS dev last I've checked... I'm actually using a whyred (RN5) now which is it's cheaper cousin with SD635 and fully flourishing custom ROM scenes.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Any Samsung phone?

Samsungs have crappy battery life and no SD slot. I know because I'm typing this on a Galaxy S6.

And - referring back to one of the reasons why /e/ was created - Samsung has crappy, horrible privacy practices.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Love /e/ .. waiting for it. Loved eelo better (I know: the name clashed). I guess naming your phone e is one more way to become untraceable by Google (or DDG for that matter). Luckily there is also the 'foundation' part to search for.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Microsoft is in the phone business too.

Still? I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division and were instead mostly focusing on mobile software. Would make some sense for them to try to do the same thing they did with PCs and IBM back in the day, since the OS is already open source (mostly).

>I thought they had spun off their mobile hardware division

Is "spun off" code for they took a 10 billion dollar loss on it and shut it down?

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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The rumors are they're still doing one last ditch, Surface Phone due to the growing Surface ecosystem that is making them money and people liking it so far. However, they're not going to release that until they finish the CShell that they're working on the past several years.

Is Surface making money or just stemming the bleeding?

Microsoft is doing pretty well financially. MSFT stock is up 50% ($75-->$113) YTD.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

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Forked from Lineage but it's unclear what problems are being solved that aren't already solved by Lineage.

Services is the thing /e/ is also trying to solve. They plan to make the complete package. For the tech savvy, you'll be able to install those services on your own server.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

#128
post #49

I just want a high end phone that supports something like lineageos, has a micro SD slot, and decent battery life. Somehow it's hard to find.

It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but the Samsung S5 has a microSD slot (up to 128Gb), is waterproof, and has decent battery life. What is more, just pop up the back and swap a new battery (US$14 off of Amazon) in. And it has LineageOS 15.1 on it. Again, it is older, but is a high end phone.

Re: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

#129
post #49

I just want a high end phone that supports something like lineageos, has a micro SD slot, and decent battery life. Somehow it's hard to find.

Xiaomi Picophone F1. SD845, 4-6GB RAM, micro-sd slot, 4000mAh. Popular enough for treble and lineageOS dev last I've checked... I'm actually using a whyred (RN5) now which is it's cheaper cousin with SD635 and fully flourishing custom ROM scenes.

It looks very interesting (Pocophone, right? Not Picophone? [Even though "Picophone" sounds better to me]). But it's just out, and that too only in India? or at least not in the US, and it doesn't seem to support all of the US bands.

Also, no lineageos support at this point. not surprising, given its newness. But looks like one to keep an eye on!

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