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Interesting. Shame there’s no GPS, though. As a cyclist I’d love a hackable GPS device that isn’t a (fragile, bulky) smartphone.
When I ordered a PinePhone from Hong Kong, it was just too much of a hassle for my liking. Waiting for an indefinite amount of time until it gets shipped and then deal with customs.
I wonder how many customers there are per country. Would it make sense to have local distributors around the world?
Or maybe at least one per continent?
Interesting. Shame there’s no GPS, though. As a cyclist I’d love a hackable GPS device that isn’t a (fragile, bulky) smartphone.
Cheap, sleek, waterproof, gorilla glass always-on display, battery lasts a month, does GPS tracking without smartphone connection and you can sync it via Gadgetbridge to keep all your data private without any account/cloud services.
Interesting. Shame there’s no GPS, though. As a cyclist I’d love a hackable GPS device that isn’t a (fragile, bulky) smartphone.
Check out the Amazfit Bip (S) watch. Cheap, sleek, waterproof, gorilla glass always-on display, battery lasts a month, does GPS tracking without smartphone connection and you can sync it via Gadgetbridge to keep all your data private without any account/cloud services.
Promising specs! I'd rather have multi-day battery life than fancy graphics, maybe even an e-ink display.
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Check out the Amazfit Bip (S) watch. Cheap, sleek, waterproof, gorilla glass always-on display, battery lasts a month, does GPS tracking without smartphone connection and you can sync it via Gadgetbridge to keep all your data private without any account/cloud services.
Unfortunately they no longer make them. Or at least I could not find any to be bought.
Can this be something good?
There's still a long way to go before it's viable for the average tech-geek to go for a fully open-source setup (phone, watch, tablet, etc), so if your question is if it's good now, then no
If you're asking if this will turn into something good over time, then yes... A million times yes
The open-source space will most likely always come with its own set of problems and I don't think we'll ever get an environment that has the same level of seamlessness as android or iOS.
I'm hoping the next 2-3 years will get us to a point where open source can get a user 80% of the way out-of-the-box, at which point I'm definitely ready to ditch android and move everything to an environment, that's built to respect my privacy
Promising specs! I'd rather have multi-day battery life than fancy graphics, maybe even an e-ink display.