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Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by intricatedetail »

megous wrote: post #123
intricatedetail wrote: post #91

Does pine phone record calls? Seems like most new phones have this disabled and I am looking for a phone that can record calls.

The HW allows any combination of recording, playback - to/from modem and to/from speaker/mic at the same time. It's possible to implement a lot of interesting features that way, like DTMF menu system on incoming calls, with or without monitoring of the other side, etc. I have it documented here: https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/audio-pp.html So it's certainly possible.

Sweet!

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by stonogo »

ognarb wrote: post #18
oriesdan wrote: post #13

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Hi, thanks for taking questions. What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone? Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

Yes it works! SMS and MMS are supported via the application Spacebar. The application got a lot of improvement last months. https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat... Calls are also working fine. The only "exception" being one carrier in the USA does not seem to work with ofono (the underlying framework) yet, but that issue was also with the previous UBports edition.

Which carrier?

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by eckza »

ognarb wrote: post #98
eckza wrote: post #81

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This is great news. Biggest question: Can I send SMS, on this phone, from another computer? The biggest reason I ditched my iPhone for Android was the excellent implementation of in-browser messaging, to and from my phone, on any computer with a web browser. I don't need to be able to text from "any computer with a web browser", but if I could send SMS from Win / Mac / Linux machines that I owned, that would be a hug…

You can use KDE Connect[1] for send SMS from a Win / Mac or Linux machine. This also works with Android. [1]: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

This is fantastic. Thank you so much!!

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by eckza »

fooqux wrote: post #95
eckza wrote: post #81

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This is great news. Biggest question: Can I send SMS, on this phone, from another computer? The biggest reason I ditched my iPhone for Android was the excellent implementation of in-browser messaging, to and from my phone, on any computer with a web browser. I don't need to be able to text from "any computer with a web browser", but if I could send SMS from Win / Mac / Linux machines that I owned, that would be a hug…

There is KDE Connect. You can easily respond to texts from that. Barring that, sending a text is a simple one-liner in the terminal. Worst case, you can just run the command via ssh or whatever other workflow you may want.

Beautiful. Thank you so much.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by fuzxi »

d_theorist wrote: post #126

Anybody know, or have a decent guess at, the price?

$150. $200 for Convergence Edition that uses an upgraded board with more RAM and eMMC, plus some accessory goodies. This link [1] is for the Manjaro edition, but all of the community editions have been priced the same.

[1]: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by m463 »

fsflover wrote: post #100
tluyben2 wrote: post #35

I got my pinephone (Manjaro) last week and tried all OSs there are for it; I really love the idea of having a real Linux device in my pocket (that's why I have the Pandora, Pyra + GPD pocket 1 as well); it is such a difference having full control and being able to change whatever how you work instead of having large corps decide. Also shows, by the 'missing apps' between ecosystems, how much we need replacements for…

> For now, this is a device for people who like freedom of their device (well, at least as much as we can get with modern circuits) Librem 5 [0] goes further than that: it's OS is endorsed by the FSF as truly free. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5

unfortunately, librem 5 isn't shipping. it's always a little further out. Hopefully soon.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by MartijnBraam »

fsflover wrote: post #100
tluyben2 wrote: post #35

I got my pinephone (Manjaro) last week and tried all OSs there are for it; I really love the idea of having a real Linux device in my pocket (that's why I have the Pandora, Pyra + GPD pocket 1 as well); it is such a difference having full control and being able to change whatever how you work instead of having large corps decide. Also shows, by the 'missing apps' between ecosystems, how much we need replacements for…

> For now, this is a device for people who like freedom of their device (well, at least as much as we can get with modern circuits) Librem 5 [0] goes further than that: it's OS is endorsed by the FSF as truly free. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5

Afaik it doesn't have endorsement yet, they are just aiming for it

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by qiqitori »

squarefoot wrote: post #127
izacus wrote: post #80

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I wonder if making a shell on top of Android (for compatiblity with other devices) would make community larger and get more software contributions. Not sure how technically feasible it is though.

Pretty much all Linux installs on Android phones are chroot jails on top of Android. They run at decent speed because everything is native, but they're forced to use Android's kernel and device drivers which are non free, closed and therefore not trustworthy, and cannot protect themselves by malicious Android apps and/or backdoors. I would rather have a truly free and open operating system in which I can set up one o…

> Android's kernel and device drivers which are non free, closed and therefore not trustworthy

That's a bit misleading. Android's kernel is Linux which is GPLv2, and thus the device drivers are GPLv2 too. (They could be circumventing the GPL by using shims though.)

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