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Phones are hard, maybe the FOSS world should put more effort into the pine tablet for now.
Because the core system of not ready yet much less the telephony stuff, and yet here we are doing distro hoping and pretending our apps are touch friendly.
I imagine that is what the final retail version will be?
I'm on pre-order for a Librem 5, but the Pinephone is more compact, and since I'd want it essentially as a portable linux computer in addition to a regular daily driver smartphone (i.e. carry two "phones"), it might fit my needs better...
I've got an (old) Samsung Galaxy S4 that I've stuck with because it suits my needs and it still works well. Knowing that it will eventually die, I guess I have two questions I'd love to have answered by Pinephone owners: 1) Is a Pinephone a viable alternative either iOS or Android? 2) How do you get it connected to carrier X?
No, probably not, not currently. It's a prototype phone, in low-production numbers, with a somewhat underpowered SOC (but with proper FOSS drivers/kernels).
The regular "Linux-distros" you would typically boot on this phone instead of iOS or Android are still under heavy development, although things are improving.
I consider the PinePhone a good first POC for a pure Linux phone, and I'm happy to have one though.
> 2) How do you get it connected to carrier X?
This applies to any phone any place in the world: You insert the SIM-card given to you by your carrier.
This is literally how it has been done since mobile phones were invented with no change. Seeing a question like this on HN honestly has me quite baffled.
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Disclaimer: I do not (yet) have my Pinephone. > 1) Is a Pinephone a viable alternative either iOS or Android? A Pinephone will never support all the proprietary apps (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Fortnite, etc). In order to be viable, I would say a phone needs to support phone calls, SMS, MMS, camera, GPS/Navigation, and have a fast and snappy web browser. Currently the Pinephone supports everything except…
"A Pinephone will never support all the proprietary apps (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Fortnite, etc)." That sounds like a feature I'm excited about :).
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Or regular upstream https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/jfltexx/ Not sure how /e/ is supposed to be more private yet less open? I'm using my i9506 (ks01lte) as a daily driver, though I think I'll switch to a i9505 because it has official lineageos support, which means probably less weird SD card bugs.
Support for my phone got dropped :( I wish I could install it on my mi a1
Can the pinephone hardware realistically be used to run Linux comfortably on mobile? The pinebook sucked and this is the same hardware,the pinebook pro has 4gb and still struggles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8
I'd really like an unbranded version with these (or better) specs, even at a slightly higher price (I don't particularly identify with any of the distros that have been released so far, not to say there is anything bad about them of course :-)). I imagine that is what the final retail version will be? I'm on pre-order for a Librem 5, but the Pinephone is more compact, and since I'd want it essentially as a portable l…
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There are a number of apps I use and depend on that work fine without Google services. Signal comes to mind, for instance. I agree that a better template would be great, but I can't imagine we'll get there anytime soon, and I would love to use my PinePhone as a daily driver in the near future. I won't do this without a few key apps that don't have direct alternatives considering some people with whom I would like to…
There's some work being done to make Signal work more natively on Linux (though not from Moxie directly) This is a daemon that provides an API for signal https://git.callpipe.com/finn/signald This is a libpurple plugin for it (Pidgin messenger, or even irssi, Weechat etc) https://github.com/hoehermann/libpurple-signald Chatty, the SMS messenger that works in Phosh also supports libpurple plugins, so presumably Signal…
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There's some work being done to make Signal work more natively on Linux (though not from Moxie directly) This is a daemon that provides an API for signal https://git.callpipe.com/finn/signald This is a libpurple plugin for it (Pidgin messenger, or even irssi, Weechat etc) https://github.com/hoehermann/libpurple-signald Chatty, the SMS messenger that works in Phosh also supports libpurple plugins, so presumably Signal…
https://gitlab.com/thefinn93/signald/-/issues/52#note_406669... has some details about the issues running Chatty with libpurple-signald